Friday, June 18, 2010

Revolving Doors of Duality

My brain is like God's science project.  Like a painting of a mathematical equation.  Like a leap of faith with a hint of reason.  Like sweet and sour sauce.  Walking through life in this body is like walking through revolving doors.  Just when I think a new door has opened up, I realize I have been walking through the same door over and over again, only with a new perspective each time.

Humanity may have evolved into an advanced social being with complex technologies and sciences and economies and cultures, but it is the duality of nature that always keeps us seeking balance throughout our evolution.  Yin and Yang exist in all that is, and my own journey reflects this back to me wherever I am.

How is it then, that choice and fate can coexist harmoniously, or that war and peace are two parts of the same whole?  How can we be both objective and subjective, and where do we draw the line between right and wrong?   

In sex therapy, couples are often encouraged to practice role playing to change up the energy in the bedroom.  How can playing Tarzan and Jane be any different than playing Bob and Amy?  They are both the same people, right?  Aren't they?

But maybe that's the point.  Maybe we need to give ourselves permission to alternate between our own Yin and Yang.  Maybe we spend our whole lives learning right from wrong when wrong is just a different version of right.  Now, I know you might be thinking, "screw this rhetoric hippie bullshit," but when is the last time you have sat down and really examined what role your thoughts and beliefs play in your experience?

How awesome is it that a bad day can be transformed by a single event... a single shift in energy?  How powerful is that, when you can walk through the revolving doors of duality, and literally create light out of darkness?

Life is a gift... and a curse.  Life is Life.  Honor its wholeness.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

beautiful, my friend, simply beautiful. you said it better than i ever could.

all the best,
phil

World Elephant said...

Really dig the revolving doors thing. Completely true. Do you think this also applies to our lives as a whole? Perhaps reincarnation, if you believe in that sort of thing?

Beautiful, though.

Anonymous said...

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JeweyLama said...

@Ahip I feel that broad views like this one can be applied to more specific life discussions such as reincarnation, only if like you mentioned, "you believe in that sort of thing".

The place where I believe we tend to get caught up is the interpretation. We tend to equate "real" with literal, and "not real" with figurative. So, a concept like revolving doors is suggesting that a new perspective is both literal and figurative, and leaves the individual to determine where they want to draw the line between the two.

Glad you enjoyed :)