Duality is wearing me D0wn....

Originally posted by NewAgeMan
reply to post by MagesticEsoteric

 

Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to His disciples,
"These infants being suckled are like those who enter the
Kingdom."
They said to Him, "Shall we then, as children, enter the
Kingdom?"
Jesus said to them, "When you make the two one, and when you
make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside,
and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the
female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the
female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye,
and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and
a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter [the
Kingdom]."

"When you make the two parts of every division into one true whole, and when you make the inner part of the vessel like the outer and the outer like the inner (for each defines the other), and the upper life like the lower life, and when you cease to observe the distinction of sexuality, when you make an infant's eyes in place of your eye, an infant's hand in place of your hand, an infant's foot in place of your foot, an image of these infants in place of an image of yourself, then you will enter the kingdom." - Simon Magus

reply to post by christina-66

Excellent post. Unfortunately, few will bother to read all of it and fewer still will accept what you are saying.

We find ourselves confronted by a world of pain and pleasure. As animals instinctively do, we seek to avoid the first and increase the second. Pragmatists understand that there is only so much they can do about either – there’s always going to be some pain and never quite enough pleasure. They accept these limitations and get on with life.

Less pragmatic folk, noticing that both pleasure and pain come to us from the material world, conclude that it is possible to eliminate desire and suffering altogether by eliminating the material world. So they reject it, telling themselves that mind is the only reality, and seek to ‘free the mind’ of ‘illusions’ like ‘materialism’ and ‘duality’, believing that pain and suffering can be thus eliminated and everyone can live in a state of transcendent bliss.

The ugly truth, of which such folk hate to be reminded, is that they are no different from the rest of us. They, too, are slaves to matter: they move their bowels every day. They eat, they sleep, they sweat, they bleed, they die. If there is a difference between them and the rest of us it is mental; they have (perhaps) learned to transcend suffering by ignoring or blocking out the reality of corporeal nature. Of course, they pay a price for this: the pleasures of the world must be renounced along with the pain.

Still, nothing prevents them from living as if what they believe is true, and (the human brain being very prone to suggestion) even make it true, in a limited way, for themselves. But the rest of us should take care to note that it is they, and not we, who are living an illusion.

And material reality always gets them in the end, just as it gets the rest of us. The cosmic illusion of Maya proved not to be an illusion after all when the Buddha was lying on his deathbed. Nothing has changed since.

The problem with duality is, is that it is a dividing line between two objective perspectives, that can exist simultaneously, however cannot co-exist when the line is in place. This unseen hand, it makes us believe in good and bad, and blinds us to what is actually happening in terms of real bad events and real good events, their causes far more complex than any simple "karma" or "judgement".

When one questions duality, often they are placed on the negative side, because "bad is good" however, on the other side, there are actually "good" things that can be "bad" when observed in the correct light.