[Shower question] Why do we have to fight the urge to do bad things?

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I would actually flip the questioning around, why do we have to avoid doing good things? How many people have had the opportunity to be of service yet chose not to out of comfort?

The problem is that everyone decides for themselves what exactly is good or bad.

My questioning leads me to question both apparently 'good' and 'bad' impulses so I don't really have this bias towards 'bad' things because I also question good things. I think the bigger questioning is why do we do anything? Why do you get this impulse to do this or that thing? The qualifications of 'good' and 'bad' are added after the fact.

When the impulse is just the impulse I find it easy to question its source within myself. I don't believe impulses are 'random' so when I ask myself, 'why?', I receive an answer. I've experienced it that the more I believe things are random, the less responsive my internal self is to questioning. Your sub-conscious mind will give you answers that are most comfortable for your belief system, I think, so the more you are willing to see your own internal structure and penetrate 'random' with focus, the more your impulses will make sense.

Of course, there is the very dominant social meme of 'Just do it!'. I, personally, prefer to think about my impulses before engaging in them.

Relevant Quotes here regarding the Experience of the Mind

http://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=94

And here regarding the Significator of the Mind

http://www.lawofone.info/results.php?s=97

94.15 Questioner: In the fourth archetype the card shows a male whose body faces forward. I assume this indicates that the Experience of the Mind will reach for catalyst. However, the face is to the left, indicating to me that in reaching for catalyst, negative catalyst will be more apparent in its power and effect than the positive. Would Ra comment on this?

Ra: I am Ra. The archetype of Experience of the Mind reaches not, O student, but with firm authority grasps what it is given. The remainder of your remarks are perceptive.

97.11 Questioner: The entity looks to the left, indicating that the mind has the tendency to notice more easily the negative catalyst or negative essence of its environment. Would Ra comment on that observation?

Ra: I am Ra. This is substantially correct.

94.11 Questioner: I have drawn a small diagram in which I simply show an arrow which represents catalyst penetrating a line at right angles to the arrow, which is the veil, and then depositing in one of two repositories, one which I would call on the right-hand path, one on the left-hand path; and I have labeled these two repositories for the catalytic action as it’s filtered through the veil “the Experience.” Would this be a very rough analogy of the way the catalyst is filtered through the veil to become experience?

Ra: I am Ra. Again, you are partially correct. The deeper biases of a mind/body/spirit complex pilot the catalyst around the many isles of positivity and negativity as expressed in the archipelago of the deeper mind. However, the analogy is incorrect in that it does not take into account the further polarization which most certainly is available to the conscious mind after it has perceived the partially polarized catalyst from the deeper mind.

94.12 Questioner: It seems to me that the Experience of the Mind would act in such a way as to change the nature of the veil so that catalyst would be filtered so as to be more acceptable in the bias that is increasingly chosen by the entity. For instance, if the entity had chosen the right-hand path the Experience of the Mind would change the permeability of the veil to accept more and more positive catalyst, and also the other would be true for accepting more negative if the left-hand path were the one that was repeatedly chosen. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. This is not only correct but there is a further ramification. As the entity increases in experience it shall, more and more, choose positive interpretations of catalyst if it is upon the service-to-others path and negative interpretations of catalyst if its experience has been along the service-to-self path.

94.20 Questioner: The magical shape is on the right edge of the card indicating to me that the spiritual significance is on the right edge of the card, indicating to me that the spiritual experience would be the right-hand path. Could Ra comment on that?

Ra: I am Ra. Yes. The figure is expressing the nature of experience by having its attention caught by what may be termed the left-hand catalyst. Meanwhile, the power, the magic, is available upon the right-hand path.

The nature of experience is such that the attention shall be constantly given varieties of experience. Those that are presumed to be negative, or interpreted as negative, may seem in abundance. It is a great challenge to take catalyst and devise the magical, positive experience. That which is magical in the negative experience is much longer coming, shall we say, in the third density.

So, I think it isn't that we have to 'fight the bad urges' but rather I believe on a subconscious level we are aware of both the good and the bad so the 'fight' is actually the process of 'choosing'. The challenge being that the 'bad' appears so much more readily yet since the mind knows there is also good it reaches for that and thus we have the combat between urges.

It seems those who readily grasp seemingly 'bad' urges likely do not view those urges as bad in the first place. They may even view seemingly positive urges in the minds of others as negative based on their belief system.

Thus, you struggle because you are aware of the polarities and their natural incompatibility.