“I’m not Svante Arrhenius; I’m not a robot; I’m just an ordinary person.” It was the status of one of my labmate (senior) on the messenger today. The word ordinary suddenly reminded me to something that I’ve learned in one of my undergraduate class (western civilization), where one of the very interesting concept we discussed was about the “Ordinary Evil” by Candance Vogler. It was about the man who came up with the gassing massacre of Jewish people during the Holocaust.
Suddenly, I felt like everything around me is so unpredictable. I could not even tell what evil or good is; what ordinary or extraordinary is; what normal or abnormal is? But, are those questions even important? In Buddhism, ordinary and extraordinary are not any different from each other. Good or bad, they are the same. If I could break through this confusion of these questions, I guess I will be the freest person in the whole universe. However, I am just an ordinary person.
Good night.
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