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Our present morality is based on the past or the future, on the traditional or on ‘what ought to be’. ‘What ought to be’ is the ideal in opposition to what has been, the future in conflict with the past. Non-violence is the ideal, the ‘what should be’, and the ‘what has been’ is violence. The ‘what has been’ projects ‘what should be’; the ideal is homemade, it is projected by its own opposite, the actual. The antithesis is an extension of the thesis; the opposite contains the element of its own opposite. Being violent, the mind projects its opposite, the ideal of non-violence. It is said that the ideal helps to overcome its own opposite, but does it? Isn't the ideal an avoidance, an escape from the ‘what has been’ or from ‘what is’? The conflict between the actual and the ideal is a means of postponing the understanding of the actual, and this conflict only introduces another problem, which helps to cover up the immediate problem.
From Commentaries on Living Series 2