Good Life At The Expense Of The Ego

Question: Which would you choose: being good but you die, or being bad but you live?

Answer: This is a very deep and complicated question.

Before we can answer first of all we would need to define what “good vs bad” is, what “life vs death” means.

Since we are all born with an inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egoistic and greedy nature, we all live according to “sweet vs bitter” calculations. This means that I want “life” to be “sweet”, thus for me “good” is what brings pleasure to me, moreover this pleasure is even sweeter if I achieved it at the expense of others.

But what is “good” for my egoistic self is “bad” from the point of view of the fully integrated and interdependent natural system we exist in. My egoistic attitude, lifestyle disrupts the flow of “circle of life” in the system. Thus while I – and ever other person who lives instinctively – live according to “egoistic good”, we cause “death” to the system and since I am part of the system even my “egoistically good” life is not truly “living”. We are just languishing in a very simple, “zombie-like” manner, surviving day to day at each other’s expense.

If I am ready to switch to a “truth vs false” calculation, accepting the standards, laws of the fully integrated natural system at the expense of the “death of the ego”, annulling myself towards others in order to facilitate the optimal life of the whole collective, then I create life in the system, as I removed my egoistic block from the flow of “circle of life”.

This is “bad” from the point of the inherent ego but it brings life to the system, including to my “higher self” that aspires to be Human. Thus what is good for the ego brings death, what is bad for the ego that brings life.


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