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Is Duality Just an Illusion?
If duality is an illusion, then unity will not be established. Both have their values, and without duality, unity has no substance. Both are natural, both are true. That is the nature of the world. Like light and darkness, the contradictions exist, they are there. The North Pole is there, and so is the South Pole.
“The two fullnesses” complement each other. There is 100 percent diversity and 100 percent unity, both performing their work at the same time. That is the nature of the work of creation–this is true reality.
To us, one seems real and the other unreal. The reality is that both are real at the same time. As water is true, so ice is true. Both are quite opposed to each other, and yet their affinity is so great that the ice cannot exist without the water–it is water and nothing but water. So unity and diversity are there together and at the same time.
The highest goal of existence, then, is to achieve “200 percent of life.” Life is a field of unlimited possibilities. Such is the glory of total flexibility in the human nervous system. This is a tremendously important point. It says that we can bypass the limited, bounded choices that we are used to making and go directly to the solution of any problem. The basis for this assertion is that nature has already structured the solution in our consciousness.
The problems are in the field of diversity, while the solutions are in the field of unity. Going straight to the field of unity automatically hits upon the solution, which the mind-body system then carries out.
Adapted from Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine, by Deepak Chopra (Bantam Books, 1990).
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There are many dualitys in nature, but Good and Evil are not one of them.
Good behavior in a human leads to benefit to other people, benefit to yourself and benefit to society.
Evil behavior in a human leads to harm of other people, yourself, and society.
It is just too easy to abstract Good and Evil into concepts of equal worth, and see each concept as equally worthy, or just an expression of diversity.
However, this planet is littered with the pot shards, abandoned roads, and shattered foundations of the buildings of empires that did not choose good behavior, but allowed those empires to be consumed with evil behavior.
Actions have consequences. Evil wears down the human world, and Good in man builds the world up.
I choose the value of Good, and seek to disipline myself to eliminate evil behaviors from my life, since I would rather build up than tear down.
Good is not busybodyism.
Humans tend to think that they are not doing enough to control their own behavior, and be good people, and seek to control the good behavior of other people.
Wars and oppressive religions and philosphies alwasy have at their core the need to stop opther people from being evil, and make them good.
Faith in God, and a relationship with God, and true good behavior involves minding your own business, and being self disiplined, and seeking the good yourself, and spiritual pacifism.
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I'll never figure it out...is it as soon as we label things we are seperating ourselves from them. Living the reality as oppose to discussing it.
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if duality, and the unity of its parts, was the totality of reality, then what hope is there to escape it? Duality/ and unity are marks of this existence, they are right in front of our faces, but they are hollow. Devoid of absolute meaning, they are illusory in one sens, and real in another sense. This is the nature of existence. We exist in illusion which appears as reality. To recognize the illusion, and take your self (body/soul/mind continuum) out of it, and supplant it with a truth of absolute reality that is loving consciousness, is a path to non-duality, non-opposition, not self and non-attachment to impermanence.
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Yes duality is often a problem....when I start thinking and trying to understand something with the intellect then one becomes separate from it and there duality arises...
Maybe over use of the mind to compensate for lack of body work and exercise.
Who knows ...each to his own.
Thank you Deepak for the great post.
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On this thanksgiving day I wondered what I could say to one like you who gives out so much in Spirit guidance that I whent into deep thought and asked are Father. I am now going to give you what is in my hart.It was with grate gladness that seeing you for the first time and being able to recognize another Master down on the Earth working with the light Angels. It is therefore hard for me at this moment with so much work having to be done that I thought it would be better just to let you no that I also am hear to help all I can with the teachings of our Father. The light that is handed down, as from the very begining . It comes only with my entering the mind of God that any real truth can be gleaned. With this wisdom it must go out now into the world to be shared by all.I thank Father for letting us do this work in his name and blessings go out to you for all you have done and all that you are about to do. Have a lovely time now . You are my Brother and true friend. Janet.
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Good Morning Deepak,
And ~A wonderful Thanksgiving day to you and all~ Today I am Giving Thanks for all you do,. Thank You Deepak, Brenda
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