Can a person be one hundred percent good or bad?
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"You are neither wholly good nor wholly bad; to transcend judgment, you must see that dualities are merely two sides of the same coin."
According to Osho, no one is one hundred percent good or bad. The mind functions in dualities: whatever appears as wholly good hides its opposite in the unconscious, like two sides of one coin. Goodness needs badness as a background. Only by going beyond mind’s opposites does the labeling drop; then a person is seen as neither good nor bad, beyond judgment.
Nobody is perfectly good or perfectly bad; our minds hide the other side, and real wisdom is to look beyond labels.
Why this matters practically
- Softens black-and-white judgments, growing compassion for yourself and others.
- Stabilizes relationships when flaws appear, reducing swings between idealizing and rejecting.
- Encourages awareness/meditation to see beyond labels, bringing calm and clarity.
- Stabilizes relationships when flaws appear, reducing swings between idealizing and rejecting.
- Encourages awareness/meditation to see beyond labels, bringing calm and clarity.
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