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Yin and Yang
All of nature, human and otherwise, observes a pattern and observable duality. Some decry this as human ignorance, but I will offer a different view. Consider the Chinese symbol yin and yang. Some see it as a symbol of duality, and don’t go much further with it. But I find it the simplest most direct…
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Natural Difference
People have just not learnt to accept the different, and when you accept the different then what happens to the designation of “different”? Does it still bear emotional weight when you’re ok with it? Dr Phil was talking about controlling behaviours in spouses, and when someone says my husband always does this or never does…
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Reflection
One thing about some religions is they require submission to the male, the husband. This was one reason I couldn’t stay in that culture. There are cultures, though more rare, that were matriarchies. Yes, it seems like these codifications happen. To address the issue of codification, there is cognition and there is recognition. Cognition can…
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Two Worlds
Is there unity in denying duality? In a sense you are everything, but you don’t have to do it. You are everything because you are a part of everything, but my toes are not my fingers. Our nature is to express a part. There is a lot of emphasis on unity in spiritual circles these…
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Know By Realization
In the yin and yang symbol though it acknowledged duality and there is clearly a dark half and a light half, is it not a circle? And the circles in the two sides. At the heart of yin, yang. The heart of yang, yin. In Native American cultures they had young men who wanted to…
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Accept Diversity
We won’t see unity in the world until diversity is accepted. We won’t have unity by blurring and denying duality. We won’t create enlightenment by declaring we know better than our senses, like we were some self stamped coin that we are trading in for a better bill. We are one because we are part…
Category: Social Dynamic
Unity is not preserved by blurring duality. Duality exists as a natural linkage. In a sense you are everything, but you don’t have to do it. You are everything because you are a part of everything, but my toes are not my fingers. Our nature is to express a part. Our conditioning to ideas about who we are, ideas about who anyone else is, totally ignore recognition. Maybe life itself is its own purpose and its own potential, and our only ‘should’ is what we are already doing. Just be you.
“Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.” Buddha (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.” Friedrich Nietzsche (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)