Things based in delusion can still have truly beneficial impact; for example, if you spent a decade working in a soup kitchen without ever meditating even once, you’d still have standard levels of delusion (and you certainly wouldn’t have done the most effective thing) but you’d have helped feed hundreds or thousands of people who might otherwise have gone hungry.
If you spent that whole time meditating, on the other hand, then at the end of a decade you wouldn’t have had any impact at all.
Awakening and then doing something actually useful can produce beneficial impact, but it’s the doing-something-actually-useful step that produces impact, not the part where you personally see with clearer eyes, and moreover it’s possible to do useful things without seeing clearly.
If your worldview is that letting people starve is just as beneficial as feeding them, then I think it is your worldview that is deluded and causes suffering. I think that is an evil belief to hold and will lead only to harm.
Things based in delusion can still have truly beneficial impact; for example, if you spent a decade working in a soup kitchen without ever meditating even once, you’d still have standard levels of delusion (and you certainly wouldn’t have done the most effective thing) but you’d have helped feed hundreds or thousands of people who might otherwise have gone hungry.
If you spent that whole time meditating, on the other hand, then at the end of a decade you wouldn’t have had any impact at all.
Awakening and then doing something actually useful can produce beneficial impact, but it’s the doing-something-actually-useful step that produces impact, not the part where you personally see with clearer eyes, and moreover it’s possible to do useful things without seeing clearly.
You are speaking from a materialist, consequentialist worldview. I do not buy into this worldview.
It has caused massive suffering and existential crises on the planet and is deeply deluded about what ‘beneficial’ is.
If your worldview is that letting people starve is just as beneficial as feeding them, then I think it is your worldview that is deluded and causes suffering. I think that is an evil belief to hold and will lead only to harm.