Buddha For Your Blues – Chapter 02

Now, the question is what is right and what is wrong? How do you decide it? Do you examine all the ideas on earth to extract what is right? Hasn’t humankind reset the standards of right and wrong in the past?

Can you rely on your religious texts to decide what is right and what is wrong? Doesn’t the moral code of one religion contradict the code of the other? Is not one religion for meat eating while the other forbids it? Is not polygamy just according to one and unjust according to other? When consuming wine is condemned by one, Is it not a custom for the other? What if your god didn’t say murder was wrong? Would that make it right? What is morally opposite for one is apposite for another. What is moral for Tom is immoral for Dick and amoral for Harriet. Can you refer to your religious texts to infer what is right and what is wrong?

Can you decide your right and wrong based on scientific findings? Science was geocentric for fourteen centuries and scientists were earth-centred until the 16^th century. What was right according to Ptolemy and thousands of scientists for hundreds of years turned to be wrong when Nicolaus Copernicus nailed it. 

Can something be considered right or wrong because a biggest share of people believes in it? Wasn’t that the majority believed the earth was flat for ages? Yes. Right is right even if no one believes in it and wrong is wrong even if everyone endorses it.

What about your own life experiences? How accurate are they? When the sun rising in the east and setting in the west is everyone’s experience, When the Sun, the moon and the earth appears to be flat for anybody who observes it, the truth is actually the opposite. When the entire experience of the humanity can be incorrect what about an individual experience? What you think is right isn’t always the same as what is right.

Can something be considered right for it is the opinion of someone righteous? Is right and wrong limited to that which is stated in your country’s constitution? When you have the right, does it mean that you are right? Does wrong cease to be wrong simply because it is licensed by law?

Don’t you regard something right when it’s reported by your friend and reject the same when stated by your foe? Isn’t most of our fights not about who’s right, but just disputes over degrees of wrongness? Does right and wrong exist in actuality or is it all a question of hormonal accidents, too much of one hormone, too little of another you become a saint or a sinner?

Can we conclude that the difference between right and wrong always fluctuates? If so, why is a rape of a five-year-old universally wrong? Is there an eternal right and wrong existing beyond the history of time? Is there a right and wrong in common beyond the frontiers of countries and cultures? When you cannot measure right but when you are measured by your right, how can you be always right? Be you can. Be you must. ‘Seek and ye shall find’ says the bible. Come let us seek and see.

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