When speaking of evil, people's first reaction would be to get rid of it. Evil and evildoers must be eliminated. However, the counterintuitive consequence of getting rid of evil is to create more evil. Consider the U.S. war in Iraq. Instead of finding massive weapons of destruction and helping the Iraqi people free themselves from a despotic ruler, the U.S. government, along with its Western allies, created endless disasters and committed horrific crimes that have not stopped to this day.
Since evil is a super counterintuitive subject and trying to stop evil leads to people creating evil, what is the wise thing we can do?
Quite counterintuitively, we must love evil, not in the sense that we love all kinds of evil people and evil behaviours, such as crime, but we develop such a deep understanding of life and how counterintuitive it all is. Hating evil backfires. Therefore, we should accept it, understand it, and not punish evil to create more evil, which is the real solution to evil. For example, Zhu Geliang captured Meng Huo seven times and released him each time. The great mercy finally moved Meng Huo and transformed him from an enemy to a friend. Gandhi's resistance to tyranny through mass nonviolent civil disobedience is another example of how nonviolent noncooperation does not create more violence.
Meanwhile, accepting and loving one's weaknesses and flaws is also very counterintuitive. Usually, people are veryconcerned about their sins. They do not want to be sinners. So when theydiscover sins in themselves, they think that the best thing to do is to hatethemselves. They think of themselves as evil and try to get rid of evil byhating their evil. But all this only pours gasoline on the fire. And it willmultiply your sins. Because your psyche has to suppress and deny all that andthen projects it into the outside world, creating even more evil. The oppositeis true if you love your sins and melt them away with love.
Think of how life-changing this is. Whenevery person on this planet realises that when he tries to stop evil, hecreates evil. By trying to hate his sins, he increases his sinfulness. If mostpeople understood this and practised a nonviolent approach to evil, how muchdestruction could be avoided, how much suffering could be spared in the world,and how many lives could be saved?
So let us take a fresh perspective on evil.Why do not we confront evil with peace and non-violence, and try to move andtransform the evildoers through love and compassion, instead of doubling the evil through punishment?
憎恨邪恶是反直觉的
谈到邪恶，人们的第一反应会是除掉它。邪恶和作恶者必须被清除。然而，消除邪恶的反直觉后果是创造更多的邪恶。想想美国的伊拉克战争。美国政府和它的西方盟友没有发现大规模的破坏性武器，也没有帮助伊拉克人民摆脱专制统治，而是制造了无尽的灾难，犯下了残暴的罪行，直到今天也没有停止。
既然邪恶是一个超级反直觉的话题，人们试图阻止邪恶，结果却在制造邪恶，那么我们该怎么做才是明智之举呢？
相当反直觉的是，我们必须热爱邪恶，不是说我们真的热爱各种邪恶的人和邪恶的行为，比如犯罪，而是我们对生命有如此深刻的理解，以及这一切是多么的反直觉。憎恨邪恶最终会适得其反，因此我们应该接受它，理解它，而不是惩罚邪恶来制造更多的邪恶，这才是最终真正解决邪恶的办法。比如说，诸葛亮七次抓捕孟获，每次都把他放了。大慈大悲终于感动了孟获，把他从敌人变成了朋友。甘地通过大规模的非暴力公民不合作运动来抵抗暴政，是另一个通过非暴力不合作来不制造更多暴力的例子。
同时，接受并爱护自己的弱点和缺点也是非常反常的。通常情况下，那些非常担心罪过的人。他们不愿意成为罪人。因此，当他们发现自己内心的罪孽时，他们认为最好的办法就是恨自己。把自己当成一个邪恶的人，并试图通过憎恨自己的邪恶来摆脱邪恶。但这一切只是火上浇油。而且会使你的罪孽倍增。因为接下来你的心理所做的，就是要压制和否认所有这些，然后把它投射到外部世界，这就会产生更多的邪恶。反其道而行之的做法是爱你的罪孽，用爱融化你的罪孽。
想一想这是多大的生命转变。如果这个星球上的每一个人都能掌握这个反直觉的真相: 通过试图阻止邪恶，他们实际上是在创造邪恶。试图恨自己的罪，他们实际上是在增加自己的罪性。如果大多数人能够理解这一点，并对邪恶采取非暴力的方法，那么将避免多少破坏，减少多少痛苦，将拯救多少生命？
因此，让我们以新的视角来看待邪恶。与其以眼还眼、以牙还牙，我们为什么不以和平和非暴力的方式对待邪恶，试图通过爱和怜悯来感动和改变作恶者，而不是通过惩罚来加倍惩罚邪恶。
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