In a world of good and bad we seek the good...but how successful can we ever be? Is it possible to find and stay in something only and purely good? Or will even the best of the good turn stale and horrid after some time?
In Buddhist philosophy the radical answer is that we can stay in eternal happiness if we spend that eternity by helping others. This is the situation of a Buddha. Being perfectly happy and helping others all the time.
Happiness is not a passive state or a state cut of from the bad and dirty, but a situation where you help others. The bad becomes a source for creating the good.
This does not mean that we have to keep a lot of badness in order to have something to do. Instead we can seek for higher and higher levels of perfection.
So the important aspect is our relation to good and bad. If we try to see only the good we will end up in the bad just from relating in a bad way. The presence of the bad will help us see the quality of the good.
In mind we have the natural ability both to react and act. Sometimes our thoughts are reactions caused by external impulses, sometimes they are actions decided by ourselves. Both processes are necessary.
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