Goodness gives birth to badness. It’s where badness comes from. ...and visa-versa.
When I create one, I get the other. Every time. Badness cannot exist without goodness and goodness cannot exist without badness. And in the end neither of them exist at all in reality.
They are my creation. They only “exist” within me. There is neither goodness nor badness until I create one with my opinion. And even then, they are not there except in my painful distortion of a benevolent, peaceful, safe, non-being wholeness (a thing that sounds “good” but simply “is”).
This is why I find that I am not rewarded for striving to be good. Why it feels like there’s always a fight. Why it feels like I always lose that fight. Because I do. Because the harder I strive for goodness the deeper I cleave the world into a false separation of good and bad, and it’s the separation that hurts.
When I let go of the impossible task of separating the world, I return to my inherent wholeness and all suffering disappears.