During my twenties I studied Comparative religion and often talked about our findings with a friend who got his Master's degree in History of Religion from UCLA specializing in Sanskrit and Buddhism while studying there. He had met Joseph Campbell then when he visited UCLA as he was a friend of my friends teacher there as well.
So, as I progressed through interesting conversations with my friend while also studying Buddhism, Mystical Christianity, Hinduism and whatever touched my heart or mind in certain ways. In other words I have always believed, "God is where you find him, her, The Being". So, this is a mystics point of view of God as the Beloved that can arise from literally anywhere at any moment ongoing. So, one is always looking for the Beloved, God, wherever one goes, whatever one thinks and whatever one does. And often in doing this one finds God in remarkable places ongoing. God can be in a sunset, a mountain, a leaf, a blade of grass, a person, a child, an animal, an insect a woman or a man (whatever). So, this is the path of a mystic, a devotee of God and of the infinite world of God everywhere and every when.
One of the things I was the most impressed with was when I learned about Padmasambhava. From Padmasambhava I finally understood a statement supposedly made by Saint Germain. It is only for fully adult adepts to comprehend and it is: "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so".
This might frighten people who are children who have not grown up. But, for the truly adult adept it makes more sense in some ways that anything else ever said. What it means to me is: "If you have compassion for yourself and all life in the universe you become a parent to yourself and all beings as a direct result". So, as you are responsible in a true way this statement makes sense because your basis is compassion and understanding and wisdom in regard to everything in the universe.
By becoming compassion and wisdom you become a co-creator with God and if God trusts you because you honor God in all that you do, you are given more responsibilities every day automatically.
Then when I studied about Padmasambhava he taught about how all qualities we have have two sides (or more). I thought about this in relation to evolution and realized that every parent, grandparent on back hundreds of thousands of years had to sacrifice for us to be born, for us to grow up, for us to reach here today. So, literally every quality we have today is based upon the sacrifice of making sure we stayed alive generation after generation for thousands of years. Every one else's genetics simply died out along the way. We are the ones they sacrificed enough for so we could survive until right now for thousands and thousands of years.
So, when people tell me that they are bad they are wrong. They just aren't looking at the gene pool that brought them here. All Qualities have two or more sides and they just need to emphasize what keeps them and the whole human race alive. That's all. Don't focus on the bad qualities, look at the other half that is useful to our survival. You might have to look hard but each of us is important to the survival of the whole human race, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. We just need to see what All the qualities really mean on all levels.
None of us are really bad, we are all the genetic survivors of everything that came before. We are all the direct result of unimaginable sacrifices made by all our forebears. And we owe them something for all that sacrifice. We owe them to carry the human race forwards into their dreams for us all. We owe them to recognize the gifts we have all been given.
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