captsunshine wrote:There are no absolutes in yardstick that you use to qualify any action.
Rights and Wrongs, are mind constructs, that arise from the delusion, that makes you believe in absolute nature of this world.
The system will correct itself...
Trouble is we all want it to happen in our wee lifetime.
If you want to intervene, do so at the risk of creating more imbalance into a state that is already in a flux.
Breathe.
Hello Captainsunshine; good to see you about the boards again.
The point you raise is one I think that presents a conundrum for many of us; and that is about making the distinctions between when to engage; or as Joseph Campbell might phrase it: " To participate "; and when to step back and ( let nature take it's course ) so to speak. To me the story of his interaction with the spiritual master where he asked: " If all is Brahman how do we say no? " to the harsh realities of life; to which the Teacher replies: " For you and me; we say yes "; ( frames this condition of living in reality that we all face ). But saying " yea to life as it is " ( also ) means " participation " in the world for Campbell also states: " If you see a serpent about to bite somebody you kill it ".
But I think the idea of " Wu Wei "; or concept of ( action - non-action ) may apply here as well. The difficulty I think that we all face as human beings is in looking at life as it is evolving and thinking there that is a " formula "; when " reality " itself is constantly changing. And the finding of that still point of balance within one's self is in itself part of the process of our individual journeys. Both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell I think have added much of this understanding of the " harmonizing of the individual " in western thought by pointing towards these internal landscapes that some of the great mythologies in the east have dealt with for a long time.
But concerning this particular issue IMHO Joseph Campbell's statement that: " Life is not a problem to be solved; but a mystery to be lived "; might be a better " lense " with which to view instead of a psychological position with which to assume. The reason being that a formula of inaction concerning a " snake " might be better served perhaps by a ( reaction ) of " community awareness ".
But just to be clear; ( No ); I don't necessarily claim any answers here. I struggle with the ambivalence about these issues and dilemmas like most of the folks I know. But the point you make here is an excellent one.
( Incidentally; I find it both curious and ironic in a way that this issue arrives in this post upon the release tomorrow of the second installment of J.R. Tolkien's - " The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug "; for humanity's conflict's is one of the major themes that is woven throughout much his work; ( including the " The Ring " trilogy ).
Cheers