You're Probably Right — and That's Why You're Screwed
The age-old concept of “right and wrong” is on its way out. Hopefully never to return. Like the dodo bird. No offense to the dodo bird, things just didn’t work out. Right and wrong thinking is always going to set us on a wild-goose chase of unhappiness and get us on an unending seesaw of dissatisfaction, and it’s going to bruise us and our bottoms quite regularly and intensely. Shocked? How will the world get better? Am I crazy? Well, yes perhaps, but not for rallying against right and wrong thinking. It’s just a law of the universe: if you're right, you're going to have to be wrong. If you're good, you're going to have to be bad. If you’re especially good, you’re going to have to be especially bad. If you have pride, you are going to have to have shame. If you're left, you're going to have to be right at some point—or someone is.
If you have any inclination to judge or be upset, or turn away from in contempt, or talk about anyone in this world, including those people that you sleep with or live in your house, who are wrong or are doing bad things, then it’s time to look inside. Yes, I know you could convince a choir of angels and a council of bishops that you are right. I do believe you are actually right, by the way, you poor, misguided, right bastard. But if you are right, YOU ARE SEPARATE. You have locked yourself in the world of opposites, of this and that, where the feeling of oneness and real love, the knowing that all is truly well, and the realm of infinite possibilities and infinite creative energy, is shut off from you. I’m so sorry for you. I know what you’re going through, I know what your life is like, because I too have been right for most of my life. I mean really, truly right. About almost everything. And oh, how I’ve suffered. Oh, how alone I have felt. Oh, how unhappy and tortured I have been, today even, God bless me. God bless you too.
FOLLOW UP MANTRA (IF YOU FEEL CALLED):
Before you go to sleep every night for a week, say: “Dear Infinite Self: Let my limited, smaller self notions of right and wrong dissolve as I rest, sleep and dream. I will wake up in the morning energized, open-minded and ready to create my day from the deepest truths.”