Introduction
Duality greatly conditions our
life. One of the more powerful conditionings that we have upon us is duality.
If we really want some freedom, we
really ought to investigate this conditioning of duality.
The conditioning of duality is
present in our psychology and from there it affects our life.
Furthermore, the conditioning of
duality seems to be a general one, that is the same for every aspect of our
psychology that is conditioned.
A greater part of the conditioning
that the various egos impose on the essence that it conditions, is the
conditioning of duality. The essence conditioned by the ego ends up falling or
gravitating to one side of duality. There is a way out of these conditioning
and it starts with understanding the conditioning of duality and this is what
this post is dedicated to.
Observations
In fact, and this is something
that we can readily observe is that our mind thinks or takes one side of duality,
i.e. for or against. The mind rarely sees both sides. It likes to see only one
side, usually the side that benefits the strongest interest or desire at or in
the given moment.
When we see both sides of the coin
or both sides of duality, things in our mind and therefore in our internal
state change. When we stop focussing on the negative side of a person or an
event and look for the positive side and we actually find some positive points
and focus on them, we usually experience a kind of neutralising effect in our
perception, attitude and internal state.
Certainly everything by duality
has its two sides, every event, every person, every object has its good points
and bad points or its advantages and disadvantages. Just as every action has
its duality. If someone wins that implies that someone had to lose.
Duality gives rise to relativity,
that is to the conditioning of relativity. If there are not two or more things
present there can not be relativity and the problems that arise due to
relativity can not emerge. This is why as soon as we add another party to our
environment or to some parts of our life that extra person introduces duality
and then from the duality comes relativity and then pride, self-love, envy and
especially jealousy appears, and this inevitably brings all sorts of
complications and problems.
Search for the Conditioning of Duality
However, back to the picture of
duality as a conditioning of our psychology, we have to look for this conditioning
in every ego that we can find it in and work hard to undo it, and if we do, we
will acquire the upper hand in the dissolution of that ego.
Duality in Fear
So now looking at particular
examples, in fear we see the main point is trust. With fear, we trust something
will go wrong, we with fear trust, but we trust in the negative side of the
possible outcome of an event.
If we trust in the other side of duality,
that is in the positive side we will not feel fear and the terrible symptoms of
fear.
Duality in Self-Love, Self-importance, Lust etc.
I self-love we are actually loving
ourselves through others. The other side of this would be to love ourselves
through ourselves. When we do this things change drastically for us for the
better.
With self-importance we wish to
find meaning and importance through others, the other side of duality is to
find importance and meaning through ourselves. For example with lust we wish to
find intimacy, acceptance, closeness and love from or through others. Actually
it is that we wish to feel more through others, because through others we feel
something towards ourselves, we feel accepted to ourselves etc.
The other side in duality would be
to find these things inside of ourselves or through ourselves. The same applies
for the other egos of the ‘self’, such as self-consideration, self-compassion,
self-devaluation, self-merit etc.
The big problem is that we don’t
know how to love ourselves, find importance through ourselves, and consider ourselves
through ourselves for ourselves. We have to find it in exactly the same way
that we find the things that we love or like about a person. We must do the opposite
of the ego in its conditioning, and this really helps to pay the karma that we
have accumulated though these egos.
End (754).
You are a very wise soul
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