What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.
There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.
Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of others.
In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.
Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious practice, the avoidance is tremendous. We brand those things as evil.
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