Love&Hate

Love and hate have little or nothing to do with good and evil. - Good people love and hate, evil people also love and hate. The capacity for hatred is shared by all, same as the capacity to love.

If you love someone for being your best buddy in crime you are a bad person.
If you hate someone for revealing your crime, you are a bad person.

If you love someone more than your relationship with them, you are a good person.
If you hate someone for destroying our well-being, you are a good person.

The difference is elsewhere.
Good people will often hate themselves and love others at the expense of themselves, will hate themselves for not being able to love others.
Good people will also hate others for neglect and betrayal of love.

We are made to feel guilty for this, by a host of modern pharisees, creating spiritual memes that serve the status quo, keep us rainbow-lovy-dovy and ever so understanding, patient and "enlightened" - and ineffectual. It serves the continuation of the evil empire. It cuts the honesty and the radiance of warrior-spiritual power that the angels would need from us to help us sort out our world. Instead we are guided to limit ourselves, to "first sort ourselves out", to dim our vision and turn this energy against ourselves.

Bad people love themselves, but will love themselves at the expense of others, will love others, if there is an advantage or at least no cost to themselves. Evil people hate anyone, who threatens the fulfillment of their self-love, who pull away their cover, they may even hate themselves for not being hard enough to bulldoze their way to victory.

A good teaching about the nature of evil is contained in the German folk tale of the Wolf and the Seven Kids.
In order to deceive the kids, the wolf first buys chalk to change his voice: The evil person will change his energy-voice-level, he has to pay for that with the loss of authenticity. This is what happens when the mind tries to replace WHAT IS with WHAT SHOULD BE. This is the equivalent of the harmful effect I see in the present day application of Buddhist doctrine. It leads to a kind of conspiracy, where the participants make an unspoken deal with each other that could be read as: "If you support my fake, I will support your fake".- This I see as the essence of the relationship inside the Buddhist sanghas and also inside other religious or societal organisations that function along similar patterns. The secret - or not so secret desire for perfection is projected onto the leader, who is adulated and revered as the representative of one's own future self, once one also has attained perfection. The price is a loss of depth, a loss of normalcy, a loss of genuine humility and a loss of true beneficial effect on the human learning process.
The second deception is the covering of the wolfs black paw with dough, applied by the baker under the pretense of an injury. This is the equivalent of people refusing to face their responsibility for creating their own illnesses and emotional distresses. (Not all illnesses and emotional distresses are self-created, some are the result of "battle-wounds". To elaborate on the differences would be too much here). The baker is the equivalent of the modern medical system that tries to patch up the black marks with all kinds of concoctions, even organ replacement and stem cells etc. without attending to the root cause. On the emotional level the baker's dough would feature as countless tricks and crutches, from "therapies" to "meditations" to "uplifting music", where the aim is to produce an artificial calm state, "happiness" at the expense of honesty, justice and true virtue. The Christian ritual of the Sacrament and automatic forgiveness falls in this category as well.
The third deception is the dusting of the applied dough with flour. This is essentially the role of the media in the outside world, but on the internal level it is one's own ego, afraid of burning up in the process of the Last Judgement, or the phoenix before it can rise from the ashes. It is noteworthy, how this is described in the tale: ... "The miller thought, "The wolf wants to deceive someone," and refused to do it, so the wolf said, "If you will not do it, I will eat you up." That frightened the miller, and he made his paw white for him. Yes, that is the way people are." I remember it well, when my grandmother read the tale to me as a kid and I vowed to never become like that.
But the tale also contains the solution. It is the youngest kid, the seventh, that hid in the little clock-chamber. My grandmother had to show me that place every time, opening the cover of her old grandfather clock. - Seven is the sacred number signifying the completion of time, the seven days of the week, symbolised by the chariot of the sun, guiding his vehicle, drawn by the two sphinxes, without reigns, by the power of his mind alone. This relates to the mastery of time, when the mind has has resolved its own riddle, gained awareness of itself on the Blue and the Red road, the two forms of human existence inside and outside the physical body.