Oracle of Consciousness
What
is
Duality?
The quality or condition of being two parts, elements,
or aspects.
That is to say, there is
two of everything..
The opposite of duality,
would be:
Oneness, an absence of two of anything.
Let's contemplate this expression.
“We are infinite consciousness, having a human experience”.
What does that mean?
What if we originated from an infinite consciousness state (and this is my personal belief) and that we are infinite at the core, having no beginning and no ending?
This of course, is very difficult for the mind to grasp.
None-the-less, this infinite consciousness has also been described as 'Oneness', or 'One'.
That implies that Oneness is an absence of ‘Twoness’, meaning there is only one of everything and in this condition, there would be no duality, and no way of determining one thing from another, because there is no ‘other’ to compare it with.
If everything and everyone is One, we could pose the question,
One, relative to what?
Well, one relative to one, doesn't make any sense.
The left hemisphere of the brain can't make any logic out of it.
But the right hemisphere gets it!
“We are infinite consciousness, having a human experience”.
When we look at the last part of this statement, that we're “having a human experience”, which means we are occupying a physical body in this dualistic universe where ‘Twoness’ exists, we could postulate that:
“Oneness is playing a game of Twoness, in order to lead us back to Oneness”.
We arrive in this incarnation as the one infinite being and we are experiencing the ‘Twoness’ of duality, hot and cold, masculine, feminine, day and night, good and bad, etc.
The whole process of us being in this dualistic universe is to experience what we and others have co-created in this world that we live in.
What we do want and what we don't what.
Otherwise, in the state of Oneness, there is nothing to experience.
Sit with this for a moment, contemplate its meaning and how it applies to you?
Welcome to duality
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Separateness
leads us to
Interconnectedness
When we look at our personal experiences, there should be no judgment.
Of course, society will judge us, and we tend to judge ourselves, with our ego having a field-day sabotaging us.
But in essence, all we came here into this body to do is to experience life in its fullest and now and again, we will experience some very uncomfortable suffering, pain, trauma, etc., just to have that experience.
Otherwise, we would be devoid of knowing what the other side of the coin looks like.
Our whole life has been this process of experiencing, experimenting, trying this, pushing out the boundaries, doing some “good” stuff, and some “bad” stuff.
Those are all judgments; 'good' and 'bad' are assigning a judgement to 'What Is".
All we've done throughout our life and we've never failed, is to have a multitude of experiences.
Sometime in the future as we progress and even now, we can look back and think, well, all I made was a conscious or unconscious choice to experience something, this relationship, this car crash, this abundance of money, this exotic journey through a jungle, whatever the experience was, however we label it , we've made a choice to experience it.
We might look back and think:
“Ummm.. I wouldn't make that choice again, it resulted in causing some harm to myself, others, or the environment”,
or whatever was affected by that choice.
And it also doesn't give us the right to judge a person as 'evil', or a 'nasty person', as all they're doing is experiencing life's duality, just as we have done throughout our life.
It's not an easy concept to grasp and we certainly don't condone our own or other’s negative and damaging behaviours at all, but we should realise through our heart values of compassion and understanding that all any of us are doing is:
Experiencing the duality.