I have been working with and using this concept for a long time, I have allowed my mind to wander and ponder things for what I think they truly are. So that said the principle I have been thinking about is that there is no such thing as good or bad - evil to some. My reason is this, what I do for myself or those I care about might be bad for someone else but good for me, right? You see it everywhere, someones house burns down they loose all they have yet it also puts the fireman in a job and fulfils his passion to help people. So is the house burning down good or bad, its neither - lets exclude the person who started the fire, I want to keep it simple with just two sides for now. A simple example but you get the point I hope, every action has the opposite or equal reaction (Sir Issac Newton’s third of laws of physics). I’m not really that interested in the physics of the situation, I am more interested in the reaction to the situation (whether the reaction is to the action or reaction itself) in psychological terms.
Let me explain, when someone harms you or your family you see it as bad and the doer of harm as a bad person. Sure this is true for you, and those who sympathise with you and your situation. However what about the wrong doer, do they see it as bad or good? They may see it as bad yes, however they might be far less fortunate than you are - in whatever respect - and they may see it as equaling justice therefor they see it as good. So why all this rambling about good and bad and physics?
Well it is because things will always happen to you, whether you choose for it to or not. Whether you think you are standing still or not you are always moving in a direction. This moving puts you into situations where you need to make decisions, again even not making a decision is making a decision. So in making a decision you are acting or reacting. Now what is important here is not the action or the reaction to the present situation but rather the lesson you learn during or in retrospect. If you do not learn from what has happened it will keep happening in different forms because you are making decisions based on what you know - minus the lesson that should have been learnt.
So what I have learnt in my short time might not be profound or earth shattering to anyone, but I believe it is a fundamental issue in our society. We blame others for our misfortune yet we passively let things happen to us, or even aggressively and actively so or the same onto others. The greatest shame is that instead of learning from what has happened we either wallow in self pity about our situation or rejoice egotistically in our victory blinded it so that we don’t see the next turn-off, leading us into the next situation which we are potentially even less prepared for.
So the less is this, there is no good or bad there is only what we learn from it, and the next decisions we make based on the education we have gotten from lessons gone by.