Dark, Light or Grey?

Light and dark are just varying degrees of grey. I strive towards the lighter side of the grey spectrum, but am human and am imperfect. I love, I have attachments, and I know anger. I can only hope the Force can guide me upwards towards the light, but I do not believe I can make it towards pure white.

Personally I dont identify with any
But having said that I am dark, light or grey depending on what is required.
I use what is neccessary within each moment because I have all within me and no intention of loosing an aspect of thinking/attitude that serves a purpose.

None of the above. I am neutral. I am what I am in the moment. Why should I limit myself to a specific path that has limitations upon it.

No way as way
No boundaries as boundaries
No style as style
No way as way

The way that can be named is not the way.

Grey side? More like the gay side, hey-ooooh!

But seriously, I'm a light grey, if that is even a thing.

All of it at once.

Rather than a linear scale of three highly subjective terms, I see intentions and moral alignments--and personalities overall, really--as a color sphere unique to each person. Right now, my moral alignment is a mixture of midnight (existential dread), zaffre (consideration of others, inner peace), crimson (youthful fire, recklessness), and shamrock (child's outlook, logic). Now I could be a different color combination to another; as Senan and others have pointed out, what is this to one is that to another. What attributes we assign our colors and how we blend them is our own, yet others will sometimes project their own color wheels onto us; I may be a mix of sunflower and pistachio to another Jedi. But--again, as others have said--I am my own color combination and that's all that matters in my growth.

(For a simpler answer, I'm a rainbow. :laugh: )

Arisaig wrote: Light and dark are just varying degrees of grey. I strive towards the lighter side of the grey spectrum, but am human and am imperfect. I love, I have attachments, and I know anger. I can only hope the Force can guide me upwards towards the light, but I do not believe I can make it towards pure white.

Why do you equate " the light side" with the direction up?

baru wrote: None of the above. I am neutral. I am what I am in the moment. Why should I limit myself to a specific path that has limitations upon it.

No way as way
No boundaries as boundaries
No style as style
No way as way

The way that can be named is not the way.

Your neutral....

What does that really mean?

Limits?

Your human, you have them.

No pseudo-mystical,Bruce Lee, B.S. is going to change that.

Thing is, those that speak about having no limits, are the first ones to bring them up.

If someone says they follow a Light, or Dark, path, this is a choice, in which there are no limits...

Then someone, a person with none supposedly says they are beyond them, but never actually show as such, or can even explain how a life lived as such is done with any practicality.

I stated Sith, because Light and Dark seems to correlate directly to a moral discussion, which seems to only make people think in black and white.

For Sith, morality is not a hot topic of discussion.

If you are an adult, you no doubt no the laws of your land to some degree that you are not in jail, and have access to a computer.

So, I can reasonably assume you either follow said laws, or are very good at breaking them.

Light and Dark, are so much more than a morality discussion.

So much more than the limits imposed on them by those with none.... :dry:

One thing I ask my students is to tell me of the Dark path without using morality, or the word Dark or Light, or the dichotomy of such to explain/justify it.

Does anyone here do that?

Why do you equate " the light side" with the direction up?

Because you can't see the big light bulb in the sky when it's underneath?



There may be some more esoteric association.

I think a useful thing here would be a definition of terms. Are we taking light to mean moral? Dark amoral? Grey somewhere inbetween? If so then I would say I would always strive to be what I would define as moral, but occasionally fail as we all do. Now if we're taking light/grey/dark as areas of the emotional spectrum that we draw upon as loosely defined in the Star wars mythology (ie anger is dark, compassion is light) I'm of the camp that the place your comes from doesn't really matter as long as your emotions don't consume you and you still act in accordance of what you call good. So grey I would guess.