Are there any inherently “pure-hearted” human beings?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readDec 17, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“Are there any pure-hearted humans?”

There are no inherently pure-hearted humans. And the longer we believe there are, the longer we believe that “there is something good in us” by birth, and the longer our suffering-filled awakening will last until we destroy everything.

If we were inherently “pure-hearted,” we would not be conscious human beings. We would be like animals or “angels,” unconsciously acting according to their “pure hearts” in resemblance with Nature. A Human being is one with contrasting desires and emotions, capable of balancing and harnessing them consciously and purposefully.

We are all born with an inherently self-serving, self-justifying, egocentric, and individualistic nature. We are simply incapable — by our original software — of making calculations and decisions and acting for the sake of anything or anybody outside of self-interest.

When we seemingly do something for others, when we “help,” “serve,” “give charity,” or even “love,” we do so only because it brings us some reward and self-benefit. If we did not receive any reward or self-benefit, we simply could not move a finger; we could not get out of bed.

Knowingly or unknowingly, we survive and succeed at the expense of others since the greatest joy we receive is when we prove ourselves better, higher, stronger, more respected, and wealthier than others.

This is how we are programmed by birth, so we are not ‘evil” nor ‘sinful.”

But, and this is very important, we have to reach a state where we recognize our true desires and intentions and understand that by blindly and instinctively following our inherent nature, we destroy everything, including ourselves — exactly like cancer.

Only when we recognize who we are by both and we also develop an intolerable and irrepressible desire and need to change ourselves do we start a truly Human development. Then, with the help of a special, purposeful, and practical method, we can start to further develop and upgrade ourselves by harnessing Nature’s evolutionary and developing forces.

A truly Human being is one that can act and exist above and against one’s original nature, in full awareness of one’s desires and intentions, constantly and purposefully aiming one’s intentions for the sake of others instead for one’s own sake.

When we can harness and balance our inherently selfish, egoistic desires and intentions with the acquired positive intentions and desires, then we will understand who we are and what we are supposed to be. Then we will know “good versus evil,” “love versus hate,” attaining reality from one end to the other.

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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