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The Seven Deadly Sins, anger, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, pride and sloth can all be turned in a good thing, as we have discussed above for some of them. But whatever the negative or mean-spirited event is that you might encounter in daily life, work the wonder of Spiritual Alchemy and bathe in the positivity that you will produce!
As a philosophy, Looking For a Better World clearly contains the idea that each of us should strive for living a life of Right Behavior. It seems to me that idea is the basic building block for building world peace. First with self, then family, then friends, then neighbors, then all in whom we come in contact.
It takes no imagination to realize what this world would be if everyone understood this! Everyone wants to do the right thing ... it is born in us. It is a basic element of the human condition. It is only through the learned dogmas and extremist distortions of what is right that we have come to this dangerous world of ours. Even some murderers believe that they are doing the right thing! The problem is that the right thing is not always defined as it should be. Let’s explore that.
The early Avitars had it right. If you compare the Ten Commandments with the Eightfold Path of Buddha, for instance, you will see the amazing similarities. And so it is with most of the early religious and mystical thinking. Actually, the precepts of Right Action are contained in all of the early religious and mystical writings. There are many more similarities than there are differences.
Even the Koran speaks to the similarities. Again, it is the contemporary disciples and the learned hatreds that create the dissension and violence. If Mohammed were alive, he would rebel against the extremists who rape and murder under his flag. And so would Jesus.
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