| | I am attracted to philosophies and practices that are inclusive in the broadest sense. The whole morality thing is probably useful for neanderthals who need to reign in their animal instincts a bit, but not for a modern educated man. I think that aligning yourself with only the good, the moral and the righteous might get you in nearly as much bother as identifying with the bad, the darkness, the immoral and the sinful. In that sense, if you are someone who thinks that God = 'goodness, light, love and niceties', then it might do you good to meditate on a corpse for balance...or some dog shit on the sidewalk. I think the idea of those left hand path style practices is to jolt people out of that polar style of thinking, and maybe into something more spacious and inclusive.
There's nothing pure in this world. The circular Taoist symbol of yin-yang has a white dot in the middle of the black part, and a black dot in the middle of the white part. One must exist before the other can, and each is in the other. Elegant. |