The famous Zen-Buddhist Patriarch, Bodhidharma, said it like this:
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Mortals liberate buddhas and buddhas liberate mortals. This is what’s meant by impartiality. Mortals liberate buddhas because affliction creates awareness. And buddhas liberate mortals because awareness negates affliction. There can’t help but be affliction. And there can’t help but be awareness. If it weren’t for affliction, there would be nothing to create awareness. And if it weren’t for awareness, there would be nothing to negate affliction.
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At some point the wide-open Awareness/Heart contracted into the fearbased, "protected" and seemingly separate ego/individual expression of itself to such a degree that finding back to Awareness/Oneness/Love became very hard. When Awareness/Light withdraws it gives away its power to fear/darkness. Thus, it allows "negativity/evil/darkness" to come in and "run the show". This is the state humanity has been in for God knows how long. A fearbased/"protected" state of illusory separation.
"Evil" does not come un-invited, it comes to fill the void of self-responsibility. Everyone on this planet is under the influence of "evil" - of the perception of "separation". Collectivly giving away the power of Awareness/Light/Love has over time created the planet we have today. A house that is never cleaned, and where the garbage is never taken out, is bound to attract rats/parasites/dis-ease. Clean the house good, and take out the garbage and the rats/parasites/dis-ease will be gone by themselves as there is no food for them there any more.
Humanity must have choosen to contract into fear-based, "protected" and thus seemingly separate entities around the time when
real free will was introduced. The survival of the fittest/strongest became the norm. It could have choosen otherwise, and the story here would have been very different. Power/Awareness that is collectivly given away must be collectivly reclaimed for any real change to occur. This is what we are seeing today. As we are cleansing our own individual house from all accumulated garbage, the rats/parasites are forced to withdraw more and more. Sooner or later we will realise that there is no separation - that we are all living in the same House called a Uni-verse. Everyone has been living in their own pile of garbage for so long that we have been isolated from each other. When the walls of garbage come down, the illusion of separation will disappear with it.
Everyone in Existence serves the One. Either through STO or through STS (on this planet mostly through a combination of the two). In the end there is no separation. How could it be otherwise?
Love and gratitude for this opportunity to correct past mistakes and grow in Spirit,
Sanat