Right Motive and How to Determine it, Eliminating Negative Energey

  I think this photo speaks volumes. It is a photo of my grandmother in front of the Buddha statues at Bamiyan that were two decades later destroyed by the Taliban. Anyone can agree that that act was horrific and destructive. But where does that urge come from? And to a far lesser extent can we see it in ourselves? And stop it? When my grandparents visited Afghanistan as part of a global tour in 1973 it was a socialist country. If things had remained as is it might have transitioned into a democracy. But the then Soviet Union invaded and the United States counteracted by supporting the Mujahadeen who became the Taliban years later. We would have agreed at the time we had to stop the Soviet Union from taking over. But look what happened after. The aftershocks of the cold war created what although in some ways confined to the mideast is now a world war and a very real one.
   We can look back and see what might have gone wrong. But we did not anticipate it. But with every judgment we make we must. Even in every day life. The concept of "right motive" is Buddhist. But it applies to every religion or belief system I would think. We do not seek to inflict upon our enemies what they did to us. We seek justice. So there was the Nuremburg trial for the Nazis and other criminals of World War II. One could say they didn't deserve a trial but that proved they were wrong. They had no ability to say so otherwise because they had been given a fair trial. I can support the defense of the United States and certainly support the troops in the current war. I know that sometimes war is necessary as well. But "defense" is not the same as "retaliation". I do, however, think our motives have been clear and in the right but it is something to keep in mind at all times. Any country worth speaking such as the United States does as does any leader.
  But for all of us at all times, the essential thing to do is look back and see if we can think of our motives in what we do. Not whether it is within the law because I am sure we respect the law. But what is the reason for it? And why? I've had a chance to do that as I adjusted treatment because it does seem to serve as a mood stabilizer and that helps adjust thinking. But for people without a psychiatric disability people can still act out of hatred. And yet the act could be right. How can we eliminate hatred as a motive in our life? Anger is a normal emotion. To act on it, especially on a higher level as a motive is wrong. I had to think about that myself with some ongoing legal issues (which I cannot discuss but are rational and more importantly are not contesting the medical or mental health system) as to motive. And now that things have improved I do see the right motive but I can continue to approach them with that mindset. And then its far more likely the results will be helpful to others. The reason I think of the statues at Bamiyan is because I visited an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art today. Its good to get out and about but regardless of traveling by Access A Ride my physical disability is still severe and it doesn't appear physical but a person is not rational during a seizure either. That is physical. The Vimpat is a good medication for tardive dyskinesia and what they are identifying as tardive psychosis, tardive dysphrenia and tardive dysmentia. I want to be helped. I want to recover. I want others to. That is the right motive. Sadly (and by no means to agree, just to know how the other side thinks) I was reading some anti-psychiatry books. Their descriptions of these conditions were similar to what I experience but their motive was wrong, which is to stop people from getting help. By using adverse side effects to say medication is wrong.  And yet not to speak of treatments in study such as the glutamate antagonist antipsychotics that can't cause them and worse yet not to even advocate for treatments for tardive dyskinesia. One can see clearly their motive is wrong. But I need my neurological disability defined for myself to receive the accomodations I need and also for these treatments to potentially be used in others. And for my safety in the meantime, I have been involved in some legal issues, certainly never to seek compensation but for my safety and welfare and for those of others. I am not sure if my motive was right at certain times but now that I can define it now I know it is. If you want to know how to stop adverse or negative or hateful thinking you can easily find it in others. But can you find it in yourself? And eliminate it? Because if we all did that would be one step further for humanity..