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Healing Duality
Adapted from The Way of the Wizard by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 1995).
There are two paths in life. The first path is the acceptance that duality is real, that the good and evil we confront every day are simply fact, and we must do our best to struggle against them. The second path is to see duality as our choice. Although everything in creation appears to have its opposite, one thing doesn’t: Wholeness. The totality of spirit has no opposite because it embraces everything.
To choose the second path, you have to be willing to renounce your struggle against evil. This is the way of the wizard.
There is no doubt that when we see evil we react with fear and anger. From this reaction struggle is born, and because people want evil to go away, the struggle seems to be legitimate. But what if fear and anger are the cause of evil? What if our reactions keep breeding the same cycle, which never ends? With these questions, the second way was born.
You cannot renounce the duality of good and evil as long as that is what you experience. A deeper experience, one that is beyond words, must replace it. Wholeness and spirit are only words until they become real to you personally. Reality always means experience; therefore the question is how to experience the realm of light that Merlin spoke of. “Be patient with yourself. The fading away of duality takes time,” Merlin said. “And then unity will be born automatically.”
Because spirit is always beckoning, there are countless opportunities to come into contact with it. The first steps have already been marked out—be willing to follow the clues of spirit, meditate to find the pure silence within yourself, know that the goal of spirit is true and worth pursuing.
Our free will is what allows us to break out of the cycle of good and evil. The way of the wizard is compassionate, because it solves the problem of suffering as the light of spirit draws nearer.
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Is is also a matter to do with polarity? Where there is evil there is also good...the yin yang principle....otherwise the world would fall apart...(it is slowly but surly). However there is a lot of good things going on out there...shift your focus and you will find it...right at your own front door....
Thank you Deepak for your great work and motivating people to make our world a better place which also includes the bigger picture.
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My deeply, deeply appreciation for all work well done. In success and happiness always.
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My deeply, deeply appreciation for all work well done. In success and happiness always.
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My deeply, deeply appreciation for all work well done. In success and happiness always.
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Yes, thank you, Deepak Chopra for the loving, spiritual insight you share with all of us.
I so appreciate the elegant simplicity with which you explain the most complex situations of reality and spiritual awakening and awareness.
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Well, I suppose I am going to have to add "The Way of the Wizard" to my library! Your works have really helped me to go well on my spiritual path in life. Please keep up the GREAT job, as there are many of us out here that do appreciate it. Great Spirit Bless you and yours always.
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The simple duality conflict arises out of the mind and not the intellect.I agree that the silent observing of the conflict enables the intellect to control and calm the mind to develop wholesome attitudes.
It is rather hard when the good and evil is a choice that someone dear to you has to distinguish and make and the person chooses wrong.In those situations the pain of accepting the emerging situation in a wholesome manner seems trying.Perhaps or rather indeed this is when meditation and surrender would help moderate the stress.
The whole concept is really well written
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Trust, in The Source of All's innate Goodness, is the Way. "All things work together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to (to Be in accord with) His Good Pleasure," as Paul the apostle of Christ wrote. As we embrace "all things" in the trust in God that comes by His faith, the Way God makes all things work together becomes apparant, in His Good time.
Struggling against sin--that is, "missing the mark" of the aim of faith--is the only worthy "struggle" or "effort" by which we may accomplish anything of eternal significance. The biblical writer to the Hebrews urged them, "Make every effort to enter into that rest (of Belief in God's Promise)." This is the aim and purpose of productive meditation.
Rest, in the faith that comes from knowing God, Who Is "for us, and not against us." Then, the whole struggle against "the struggle against duality" ceases, also, with it--as it is essentially born out of a lack of awareness, and fear of the unknown. A child has no struggle, either with duality, or against it. This is what Zen, a form of transcendent Buddhism, also teaches. With true Christianity, the main focus is on the One, the all-encompassing, all-empowering, and all-Loving transcendent Christ Who Makes The Way Open for us. [T]His is the expression, in and through Human Being, of the One God Who revealingly states "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man opens the door, I will come into him, and we shall eat and drink together."
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Dear Dr Chopra,
My sincerest THANKS for all you incredible work. I am one of your biggest fans.
Go well.
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