Three Wise Monkeys

From Google Guru

People say that there is no such thing as evil and that everything is good in itself. If this is true, then everything is at peace.

There are three basic commandments for our spiritual progress and wisdom, known as the three wise monkeys: "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

The question is: what can we look at now? Turning a blind eye to others' misconduct is not, I think, a true sign of good conduct. It is more like ignoring it. Moreover, it tells us to refrain from looking at things that may cause sin in someone else, without caring what others do.

I believe this is the time to see more, hear more, and speak more. It is not what we absorb, but what we produce from ourselves that pollutes our souls. By not seeing, not hearing, and not speaking evil, nothing of that same evil shall be generated from us. We must restrain ourselves from watching dirty movies, uttering dirty words, or engaging in any undesired activities.

Evil has many interpretations. The baseline of all is to protect us—our souls—from ourselves. Life is how you see it, I think. If you want it to be happy and beautiful, you must see the beauty in everything you experience. You read beautiful books so that you have a beautiful mind. Like the laughing Buddha, the three wise monkeys are a form of feng shui for better living.

Eddie Murphy said it best in Brooklyn Vampire: "If there was no evil, you would never know what good is, right? So evil is good."