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Jokeshopbeard
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Is duality an inescapable facet of the human experience?
#22436904 - 10/26/15 05:32 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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A 'Guru' once said to me; 'you just haven't discovered singularity yet'.
But I'm really not sure if it's possible to exist in that state for a human. Perhaps it's like 'enlightenment' - not a permanent state but one which, with effort, can be visited?
Is that where we go when we meditate/trip deeply and experience the 'source'?
-------------------- Let it be seen that you are nothing. And in knowing that you are nothing... there is nothing to lose, there is nothing to gain. What can happen to you? Something can happen to the body, but it will either heal or it won't. What's the big deal? Let life knock you to bits. Let life take you apart. Let life destroy you. It will only destroy what you are not. --Jac O'keeffe
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r72rock
Maybe so. Maybe not.




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Re: Is duality an inescapable facet of the human experience? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#22437033 - 10/26/15 06:07 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think part of being human is just existing in duality. I don't think that can be over come. But I think knowing about Duality is extremely helpful to keep another perspective in mind and see how our thoughts can be viewed in another way.
I don't think duality is such a bad thing either. It's just the way things are to us. I don't know why it gets such a bad rap.
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DividedQuantum
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Re: Is duality an inescapable facet of the human experience? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#22437059 - 10/26/15 06:16 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I think Robert Anton Wilson made a very subtle point about duality when he advocated for the principle of sombunall. Some but not all, sometimes but not always. I think the underlying principle is that one can exist not only at the poles of a duality, but at points in between. Phenomena are then seen to be of a spectral nature, not just "either-or." My two cents, anyway.
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Rahz
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Re: Is duality an inescapable facet of the human experience? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#22438259 - 10/26/15 11:09 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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The meditative aspect of singularity is silent and non-moving. Perhaps it promotes refined temperament, but there's no escape from duality. There's a whole world of quality within the context of duality, so why escape except for brief respite?
-------------------- rahz comfort pleasure power love truth awareness peace "You’re not looking close enough if you can only see yourself in people who look like you." —Ayishat Akanbi
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Tropism
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Re: Is duality an inescapable facet of the human experience? [Re: Jokeshopbeard]
#22438303 - 10/26/15 11:23 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Jokeshopbeard said: A 'Guru' once said to me; 'you just haven't discovered singularity yet'.
But I'm really not sure if it's possible to exist in that state for a human. Perhaps it's like 'enlightenment' - not a permanent state but one which, with effort, can be visited?
Is that where we go when we meditate/trip deeply and experience the 'source'?
My brain has two hemispheres, our species has two chromosones. But wait, so does almost every single other complex organismic life form on Earth. It makes me wonder how much it is specific to us as a species or us as a species of the mammalian branch of Earthling life in a binary universe.
So much wonder. If it is our species or local planetary evolution (or whathaveyou) then what does objective reality exist as outside of our binary perceptions? Our brains are light and dark, hot and cold, pressure and non. All broken down into a complex mesh of binary systems. Is this representative of the universe or rather of our perceptions of it?
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