Good and Evil. The necessary illusions ...

Rating: 10/10 (18 July 2006)

The movie "Matrix" has shown what every true spiritual teaching reveals: The experience of good and evil applies only on the world of the relative. And they are the necessary illusions for the world of the relative to exist. And the world of the relative (of separation) is necessary to exist so we can have an experiential knowledge of life and not just conceptual.
One thing that seems very difficult and tricky to be clearly presented in a story is that evil is not really outside of one's self. But more and more stories nowadays show that good and evil co-exist inside us. "Matrix" shows that very nicely by placing the character of the "Oracle" as part of the Machine (evil) and another trilogy movie "The Lord of the Rings" showed that too by repeatedly presenting the hero of the movie to be tempted to possess the immense power of the magic ring.
Even if it was possible to exist a moment that evil would absolutely dominate over good, on that same moment evil would be transformed into good. "Matrix Revolutions" very nicely portrayed that in the end which seems that it has confused many ...
... and it confused many because the concept of the relationship of opposites has not been made very clear by philosophy or religion. However, great teachers and spiritual masters such Buddha, Mohammad, Christ (and others less known) have made these concepts very clear but ... we like the drama too much, and that's why we haven't heard them...
But even books like "Conversations with God", "A Course in Miracles", "The Urantia Book" and many many others (if one looks will find plenty) set the record straight ... reading such books makes movies like the "Matrix" to make more sense ...
And to paraphrase Rumi: Beyond ideas of good and evil there is a field. I'll meet you meet there ... when you choose ...