Category Archives: Duality

When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment. Pema Chödrön http://www.tricycle.com/dharma-talk/fundamental-ambiguity-being-human

So, we believe in the hereafter and we’re God fearing in our religion.  Then, why are we afraid to die?

True peace is not merely the absence of negative force, but the presence of positive force. 

Funny how this classic Dualistic day is the end of Dualism for those that believe in dualism.

When Descartes met Ramana Maharshi he asked him: “Do you believe in Dualism? What was he answer?

If there is judgement, then there is duality. If there is duality, then there is good an evil.  In Unity, it feels as though there is no judgmental nature. It’s a paradigm of Christianity that gets lost many times.  But, after all, wasn’t one of Jesus’s great teachings about not judging others.  That’s non-duality.  There’s not a matter of being right and wrong, because it’s all here for us. As Joseph Campbell says, it’s the experience.

Another conundrum: Although I know what the Dalai means when he says that Eastern philosophy accepts more that doesn’t fit into the logical / reasoning / “have to have an answer” ORDER of the Western approach.  Then why am I so focused on finding out more about it? I want to understand Eastern philosophy and why, as the Dalai puts it: That if you lose an object in a room, you have to search and search and search until you find it. If you don’t find it, then you don’t understand. You cannot accept that it is not in the room.

Do you believe in Duality? Good Vs. Evil? Right Vs. Wrong? Mind Vs. Body? Immortality of the soul? What is your myth? Where are your metaphors?

If there is no duality, then is there only acceptance?  Would judgments, consequences and ramifications simply become actions without a preface? Would there be injustice – or for that matter, justice?  Without judgments, where is evil?

In the West, we need to be cognizant of our propensity to allow logical thinking to dominate our consciousness – therefore discounting the sometimes mystical, or the idea that some things just can’t be explained.