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REALISATION 04: ON GOOD AND EVIL

Author: Hoàng Nhật Minh

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Created: 2026-04-05 18:44:31

Updated: 14:51pm 04/05/2026

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Book cover image Realisation 04: On Good And Evil

A dialogue between Good and Evil

(Adapted from a hypnosis case in the work of Brian Weiss)

Hypnotherapist: Tell me what you see.

- A white flower, and a wall that is also white.

- White light is shining on them.

- So why is the flower's shadow on the wall black?

Can you say more?

- Good and evil are not part of Reality. They are not things that truly exist in life.

- Good and evil are only concepts in the human mind.

The dialogue:

  • Good: You are always showing yourself as wicked.
  • Evil: I want human beings to know what evil is.
  • Good: You have manipulated humanity.
  • Evil: I always ask for their consent to evil - and they have consented.
  • Good: You are deceiving humanity.
  • Evil: Moving beyond deception is what helps human beings mature.
  • Good: You could be gentler.
  • Evil: I tried that. They ignored it.
  • Good: You are a devil.
  • Evil: I am the morning star.
  • Good: You want humanity to worship evil.
  • Evil: No. I want them to develop compassion. When compassion appears, I withdraw.

After the hypnosis session, the soldier said:

God does not love light more than darkness. God loves all - because God is all.

When we understand this, we no longer fear the dark - because it is precisely there that light begins to be born.

1) Two sides of the same coin

From the dawn of humanity, people have learned to interpret the world through two words: good and evil.

One is celebrated; the other is condemned.

Yet in truth, these two ideas are simply two sides of the same coin of consciousness. They cannot exist apart.

Without darkness, we would not know what light is. Without what is 'wrong', how could we recognise what is 'right'?

Good and evil are not enemies - they are companions on the soul's journey of evolution.

2) When consciousness is still limited

A child snaps a flower stem in the garden not out of malice, but because they do not yet understand.

In the same way, harmful actions are born of a lack of understanding.

When awareness is low, we act from instinct. When awareness expands, we act from wisdom and love.

That is why there is no 'eternal evil person' - only someone who has not yet understood enough.

When the light of understanding arrives, the darkness of ignorance dissolves on its own.

3) Good and evil in a dualistic universe

This universe moves through the law of balance: where there is yin there is yang; where there is stillness there is motion; where there is light there is darkness.

What we call 'evil' is not a mistake, but a counterweight that helps the Whole maintain harmony.

Just as night allows plants to rest, 'evil' can push human beings to wake up from delusion.

Suffering, betrayal, and injustice in life are mirrors reflecting the inner world, showing us where we are still entangled.

If we have never understood the dark, how can we truly recognise the light?

4) When 'good' becomes extreme

Some people imagine that being good is enough.

But when goodness lacks wisdom, it easily becomes attachment.

To help in order to be praised is not yet true goodness.

To do good deeds while judging those who have not - this, too, is not yet true goodness.

True goodness no longer pides: I am the one who does good; they are the ones being helped.

It is goodness in silence - without calculation, without keeping score, without binding anyone.

5) Beyond the two poles - returning to the Middle Way

As long as we stand firmly on the side of good, evil will continue to exist on the other side.

Only when we rise beyond both do we see that 'good' and 'evil' are simply two roles in the drama of the Way.

One who abides in the Middle Way is no longer swept away by praise and blame, right and wrong.

They do not deny good, and they do not condemn evil - they see the flawless movement of cause and effect.

Every event, every person, is playing their part to keep the Whole in balance.

6) Realisation - when we can love both good and evil

An awakened person no longer wants to destroy evil, but to understand and transform it.

For they know: within a single seed lies both the potential to bloom and the potential to grow thorns.

The only way for a seed to flower is to bring it light - not to tear it out of the soil.

When we can love both the bright and the dark within ourselves, we become capable of loving every other being.

When we can love the 'evil' within us, we become truly good.

7) Closing - light and darkness are one

Good and evil fall away when we see clearly that they are simply two breaths of one life.

One contracts so the other may expand - like music needing both low notes and high.

When the heart-mind is at peace, we no longer fear evil, nor do we take pride in goodness.

We simply live fully - awake and loving - like light that embraces the shadow without needing to drive it away.

Light does not 'defeat' darkness. Light simply appears - and darkness dissolves.

Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self

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