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Am I on the side of 'Right' or 'Wrong'?

Reality takes no particular shape. It's plastic and can take any form. It doesn't distinguish between 'Right' and 'Wrong'. 'Right' and 'Wrong' are interpretations. There is no suffering in Reality...that's created by alienated selves, who are in conflict with Reality. These selves select parts of Reality and call it the whole, or the 'Good' and exclude other parts. In so doing they've just emprisoned themselves in their concepts. If you want to eliminate suffering you couldn't do it by changing your interpretations, since that's just another prison. You've got to be FREED from those concepts and this is what Buddhism and Christianity are about at their core. The great traditions teach, not a set of beliefs, but A WAY of transformation OUT OF the sickness of the alienated self. At-one-ment, as many like to say. In Buddhism it's realizing our Buddha-nature and in Christianity it's about being one with Christ, or having the Spirit of Christ live in us. Paul stated it well- "It's not I who live, but Christ who lives in me."

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