"Good," "Bad," and "Status" · The Consciousness Path

"Good," "Bad," and "Status"

Hello all,

I've been having a contemplation about the suffering that I experience and what the source assumptions are behind them, and I found something relative to status and notions of good and bad.

It seems there's this driving force that says something like there is a "good" or "bad" person or thing I can end up being. That I must be "good" and avoid the bad.

That's one for starters.

Another one is that I have to attain status or some such otherwise I will be in the "bad" category, and this is bad. I can't do things that would be "bad."

So in a weird way I funnel my perceptions, perspectives and actions around this notion of "good" and "bad," and rarely venture outside of them completely, if at all.

Which causes me to sort of walk around trying to act in accordance with this ideal or image, but I feel like that kind of sullies my ability to really show up, or actually BE myself, whether in a social kind of context or not, because the quality of really showing up authentically seems sort of independent of notions of good and bad.

I'm thinking that these source ideas things could be culture, in a sense, "acting on me" (but not really,) more I have shit in my mind that could have stemmed from my culture. Something like that.

Also, in my perspective, it seems like in order to get the truth of things you have to stand on the ground of experience and real perception rather than this culture mind, or any kind of mind stuff in general. Losing more of the "culture mind" seems also to be more free and happy as well. Gotta stand on ur own two feet.

I find as I go on that a lot of this "mind stuff" tends to just get in the way in general...

(Side note, it's funny that there's an actual overlooked obvious thing. "Overlooked" and "obvious" because it's right here in my experience, but genuinely pretty profound because it's actually true and it creates a huge number of my experiences :)

Gotta push forward.

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