A Non-Dual World.
Facebook archive. First published on 2016-12-14.
Everyone has grown used to the idea that the world is divided into two poles, and all of humanity continues to believe this lie. Religion clings very strongly to this concept, because if we assume that the world is not dual, then we will have to justify a third force. There is good, and there is evil; who will be the third?
First I want to prove that the world is divided into three components, not two. And only then can we reflect on the third force. Direction has always been dual: one can go to the right, or one can go to the left, although we also walk through the center. A hand can be left or right, but what about the spine and the head, since they are in the center? Numbers can be even and odd, but what about 1.5? On the one hand it is not even, and on the other hand it rounds upward. There is day, and there is night, but there is also twilight.
A stick has two ends, left and right, but however You divide the stick, at its center of symmetry there will be a point that cannot be assigned either to the right side or to the left side — it will be the middle of the stick. Even physiologically, although we are divided into two sexes, there are people in nature who are very difficult to assign to one of the sexes; the most suitable name for them is the middle sex. A color can be white or black, but gray also exists.
From the description of the third force it becomes clear that it either includes both qualities, or lacks both qualities, and at the same time this third force is quantitatively very small. Twilight is much shorter than day and night, and the middle occupies only a narrow strip: stray slightly from the path and that very moment you end up either to the right or to the left. If we analyze the cardinal directions, the middle includes both components, and if we analyze twilight, it lacks the light to be day and the darkness to become night.
One could introduce the duality of the middle, but this is not an entirely correct approach, since qualitatively the middle will not change, which means it will still be the middle or a boundary state.
How should this be applied? To begin with, let us stop dividing the world and people into these two poles. The world cannot consist only of introverts and extroverts, which is why ambiverts appeared (quite recently, by the way). The same is true of the phrase that a person cannot possess two kinds of knowledge equally, for example technical and creative. A person can, but there are not many people who can. In astrology, one planet can belong to two houses or two signs/constellations.
In a Tarot spread an arcana can be both upright and reversed at the same time; this happens when a card falls out of the deck on its own and takes a middle position. In feng shui there can be a boundary moment of transition from sha energy to qi energy, or the other way around.
When interpreting a boundary moment, one should use the rule that it includes both qualities and, depending on the situation, gives either a full result or half. In the case of twilight, the boundary moment includes half the functions of day and half the functions of night. And in the case of the middle of a stick, it is both right and left one hundred percent. This is easy to understand if the idea of the fullness of something is taken as the point of reference.
If the quality under consideration includes a process of some kind of growth, then the boundary moment will consist of two middles; and if the quality under consideration is homogeneous and has no process of growth, then the boundary state will be complete and just as homogeneous. In that case, two opposite qualities will fluctuate: first one will dominate, then the other.
In the case of religion, the third force is most likely nature; it is both good and evil at the same time. The same applies to the concepts of good and evil: besides them, harmony exists. Because evil for one person is good for another, and vice versa. The most important aspect of harmony is that it is stable, even more stable than the concepts of good and evil. If we believe modern science, then humans have not been on earth for very long, which means social concepts are a fairly fresh concept for the scale of the planet and its lifetime. But harmony existed before us, and I think it will exist after us, when in the eternal battle of good and evil someone wins.
It is not that the boundary state is a new concept; quite the opposite. But it is strange why, with the modern level of access to knowledge, a false, dual picture of the world still dominates. Yes, not all aspects of our life have yet adapted to the trinity of the world, but if no attempts are made to correct this, the world will remain dual. Incidentally, 2017 will be precisely an example of a boundary moment: all spheres of life will, as it were, freeze in the middle, or will oscillate from side to side.
Peace and prosperity to You.