Man's law can contain both good and bad elements, like the devil mixed with God. In many situations, the negative or harmful aspects tend to dominate due to their power or influence. For example, during a garbage strike in NYC, garbage workers were able to control the city. Similarly, in relationships, the person taking the lower road or making self-serving decisions often wields more influence. However, choosing the higher path of compassion and considering the other person can help overcome short-term gains in favor of long-term benefits. Bad habits are deeply ingrained but can be replaced by good ones through conscious effort to improve oneself and one's interactions with others.

1. Devil or God?
March 13, 2020
Man’s law is akin to the 'devil mixed with God'. Sadly the lower
in most all walks of life dominates. Take the 'garbage strikes' in
NYC in the middle of a hot summer. Garbage men controlled the
city. In a relationship, the lower dominates, of course sometimes
both are being the lower. The higher wins through time and using the method of 'making highest choices'.
Sometimes, both are the higher but decisions happen with the one choosing to best serve themselves with
little compassion and communication necessary for the other one because what serves one does the other.
The ‘devil’ is an aphorism for that which is the harmful and negative. All life wants the best of choices for it’s
survival, although largely because of embedded and attached memories from prior negative experiences, we often
become oblivious to them. Having a dozen or so residents here, it’s an opportunity to remind some of them that a
secret to life everywhere is to leave everything either as you found it or better. Simple? Not always. Negative habits
and behaviors are deeply ingrained in many as well as their instant unconscious justification. Seek to be the best you
can be in all interactions.
The Devil comes in the form of people, and especially people who do good and then turn
around to do bad. It’s devilishness or God poisoned! God can be like trying to grab water,
but the devil lurks everywhere waiting for you to give up on love, awareness, and common
sense. Never give up doing that which is the highest of choices. Short cuts often come with life’s
karmas as a punishment for cheating what’s the best choice.
Bad habits are the devil’s corruption, and once done are easy to repeat as you find ways to
justify them. Good habits evolve your spiritual journey. There is no evolving journey to be a
better person if bad habits are not replaced by good ones, and unresolved issue are let go of.
Mankind is living in the best opportune time ever. Technology is being developed light years ahead of
the collective human evolvement but for the 3-5% at best who are thankful for opportunity. Being an
astute watcher of people having interactions with thousands and more monthly I can assuredly say that I
have to wonder if most have evolved beyond the Neanderthal? Thank god for the few who are thankful for this
chance to evolve as humans.
Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s meant to be lived. Sometimes happy, other times rough or sad. But with every up and
down you learn lessons that make you stronger. No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you believe you are,
how you treat others ultimately tells all. Be like godliness, or sluff-off through life and be friends with the devil
while in denial of it. Your choice! Don’t trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar.
Arhata~