Do no harm

Both Sufism and Buddhism put emphasis on reducing egoic or karmic thoughts, speech or actions. By diligently watching over your ego, you can be aware of any behavior that is born form the small, egoic self. Both wisdom traditions see everything that arises in our awareness as a perfect expression of the Infinite. Everything that is not "me" is also the Creation of the Divine, and so to blame others for what they do veils us from seeing the world as an Action of the Divine.

So there is really no good and bad. Or is there? Granted good and bad entail a judgment which can only be a subjective judgment born from ego. But isn't there something truly good, as in Good. Or truly bad, as in Bad? I cannot how see an appropriate response to the mutilation of civilians in Sierra Leone? How can chopping off limbs to strike terror be Divine? How can a man in Belgium walk into a daycare and kill innocent children with a knife? Where is God in that? These examples stir up such strong emotions of anger, fear, sadness, even hate in me if I am honest. I struggle with not allowing these emotions to get the better of me, but to simply face all of it in meditation. I am aware enlightened action is not born from such a state of mind, but how does one find an appropriate response? How does Compassion and Love fit in here?

Put another way: Do we all have to become Switzerland and simply free ourselves from judging good and bad? How can one find a path to a peaceful response?