Of Rice and Ministry reflection

In thinking about the rice and water experiment these three famous little monkeys came to mind, "Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil."

I now don't think that "hear no evil, see no evil" means to block out and ignore evil. To do that, to allow it to exist is to be complicit in evil.

I do think it might mean that we are not to absorb it into ourselves. By doing that we fall prey to the evils of being overwhelmed, feeling helpless, becoming cynical. That is useless, and helps no one and nothing. Rather, we need to be able to face it, to do our best to change it, and to not allow it to become part of us.

As for the "speak no evil", that speaks for itself.