Thoughts 15
Last
week I brought up the reference frame of good and evil and tried to
cover evil. That leaves good. For me good is when someone helps to
ease another one's pain, or absorbs pain and does not pass it on.
There
are many ways to help another relieve their pain. One way is as
simple as listening as they tell their troubles. Volunteer work for
hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, etc. I just have to
make myself available and it always works out. The opportunity shows
itself.
No
matter what my motivations are to make myself available, I am doing
good. It has been my experience that if I can forget myself and be
truly concerned for the other person, then I receive a non-material
(spiritual, emotional, psychological) uplifting that is very
fulfilling.
To
absorb pain and not pass it on is harder. To ease pain all I have to
do is make myself available, but to soak-up pain without passing I
need an outlet for it. When someone needs to talk and I listen, I
ease pain without taking in any. When I have pain inside and talk to
another about it, my pain is eased and they have a chance to help to
good by easing pain.
Starting
from nothing to define good and evil the above is what I have
devised. If anyone can find a different starting point than pain, it
would stimulate new thought for me which I enjoy.
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