beyond duality
Good depends on bad.
Better is defined by worse.
Right requires wrong.
When the undesirable side of duality dissolves
it can seem like the desirable side has been attained:
bad is gone, everything is good.
Yet, when nothing is worse, nothing is better.
Perfection only has meaning in relation to imperfection.
As our involvement with duality fades,
the perfection of what is becomes
the mundane simplicity of what is.
Yes, there can never be anything "wrong".
Big deal.
Stating the truth is like stating nothing:
"Everything is as it is."
See? Nothing.
The truth is so simple
that it's nonsensical to us.
Getting all excited because
everything is always "as it should be"
is like getting all excited because
gravity continually keeps us from floating off into space.
It's only a big deal if we believe in the possibility
that gravity could suddenly stop working,
sending us floating off into space.
The only reason anything has ever seemed wrong
is because we believed it could be.
Having personal drama about what is is like fighting gravity.
Imagine feeling oppressed by its insistent pull
and spending your entire life searching for a way to defy it,
to win out over its devilish prison,
to discover a way for humankind to transcend its limitations
and finally be free to be all we can be.
Now imagine that one day,
after decades of dedicated, persistent struggling,
you find yourself no longer interested in wrestling with gravity.
You give up, close up your laboratory,
refocus your life and start a new career.
Eventually, the details of your experiments fade from memory.
It becomes more and more difficult to remember
what all the fuss was about.
"Why was I so obsessed with thinking there was something wrong?"
You shrug and move on.
Over time, the dream of self fades:
Personal drama about what is fades,
the memory of what it was like to have preferences and opinions fades,
the ability to see duality fades.
The extraordinary becomes ordinary.
Everything becomes simply what it is.
Ho hum.