Duality
prevails in everybody’s life. Whether you are rich or poor, literate or
illiterate, healthy or unhealthy, wise or fool, you will be always encircled
with this phase of duality. Sometimes,
the effect of duality will be so severe that even a man full of wisdom and who
always takes the correct decisions for any of his problems may be besmeared with
doubts and at that moment may take a wrong decision causing unpardonable damages
in his life’s progress. This phase of duality is a deeply illuminating
philosophical consequence. Duality in a true
sense is a regular phenomenon in our earthly life, where an opposing and
contradicting elements exist. Further, duality consists of contrasting
opposites – the right and the wrong, good or evil, darkness and light, summer
and winter, joy and sorrow, birth and death and likewise. As per Chinese psychology, the meaning of Yin
and Yang defines the above situations. The traits like joy and sorrow, good and
evil are the guards of mind’s perception and these perceptive values define our
feeling to characterize these dualities. Against these experiences of dualities,
certain things have absolutely no confrontation for identification. For
example, when we experience the emergence of sunlight, we find that day has
started and in the same way, when darkness engulfs us, we opine that night has
appeared. Here, you are clear about the consequential effects and your
observation has only residual value unless you are a creative person and want
to create something in a different way out of this change of day and night
scenery. By experiencing and saying something good for any accomplishment, we
conceive and perceive the opposite of the same as bad. Both these experiences
are true. But by giving a judgmental
value of good for something, we create an iota of doubt to describe the
opposite of this thing as bad. This only creates an illusion, which only leads
us to duality. This illusory perception decides opposite observations with a
correlation of our mind’s behavior, which intensifies observation power.
Without the knowledge of “good”, the idea of “bad” cannot be identified and
ascertained in true sense. When you recognize something as full of beauty,
which is already otherwise recognized as the same, the whole world of yours has
to accept the above fact. But if you say a blooming red rose is much better
than some well groomed thorny cactus,
then the analogy is not that simple with respect to beauty. In fact, both are
beautiful in their respective places. As
you appreciate the red roses spread across a rose garden, you have to
appreciate the forming of cactus in rows, when they inhabit a desert. There is
no ambiguity at all.
Now,
if you think to use either rose or cactus to decorate your house, you will be
in dilemma and invite dual frame of mind whether to decorate with rose or
cactus. At the same time, you may like to illuminate the grandeur of your house
putting both these plants. Which one to follow will ultimately put you in
duality? If you choose rose discarding cactus, you give prominence using your
perception to one at the cost of the other. Not only your behavior will be
guided by duality, but you may be in anxiety, whether all your family members will accept your
decision or not. So, your mind will be perturbed and will be clouded with a bit
of anxieties as you like to get the knowledge of others opinions. We, the human
beings, always pass through these types of perspectives, which consist of
happiness and despair, life and death and hope and despondency and many other
consequences. During the course of the
day in our daily life, we come across these types of syndromes at a varied degree when our mind gets
agitated with unpleasant facts, awareness of interdependence of various situations
or states, which will rise to equanimity. This will lead our desire to
aggravate on the eve of various impediments.
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As
we experience various seasons in a year, our life is also experiencing various
contrasts. Extreme situations and
volatilities out of the same make us more discernible and we accumulate
many gratifying experiences. Keep vigilance into the abundance of the
limitations of life as well as plenty of opportunities and happiness; you will
be astonished to find out the results.
The scorching sun and heat of the same provokes our mind to go and take
the shelter in the lap of cool breeze of winter, so that our body gets a
soothing effect. If you toss on a coin
of joy and sorrow, the deeper the sorrow inflicts your mind and body, the more
joy you will be able to achieve after a certain period of suffering. This is a
natural cycle in any human being’s life. The cup, which is used for your
drinking purpose is invariably getting burnt in the potter’s oven. Even though,
it is an inanimate object, it has suffered pain before it displays its
aesthetic finishing as a cup. What is the significant explanation behind the
duality that every good cause has a good effect and every bad cause has a bad
effect and vice-versa. If you are too much bothered about these dualities, you
will be more sufferer. You must know how to come out using your correct
judgement.
Khalil
Gibran, the eminent Lebanese-American artist and poet explains the
complementary nature of opposites. He teaches us that without excruciating the
pain of various sufferings, one cannot relish the sweet fragrance of joy.
Taking the cue from the poet’s philosophical explanations about the
alternatives of joy and sorrow, life and death, peace and war and if you can
position the same in various simulation techniques, you will see that pleasant
outcome always succeeds the unpleasant situations. We must increase our experiences
from this philosophical explanation. The more these experiences are accumulated
in your perception, the more you will
tolerate or become stubborn to combat these dualities in your life.
Despite being stricken with extreme agonies or pleasures in life, you have to
face dualities because of the prevailing norms of living and once you
experience the same and able to counter, you will be able to lead a meaningful
life. Drawing the analogy of the cup,
which we use to put tea, milk and even bitter medicine always reminds us the
least pain to hold the cup, even for a split of a second though most of the
time, we ignore the sequence of accepting the pain. Our life is like that only. It is only a container to
hold many beautiful and ugly things. By knowing the fundamental values of of the duality of life, you are acquiring much
awareness to understand the right and the wrong of your living. If you can circumvent its influence and
minimize the same to the extent possible, you will remain in balance and will
navigate your life in the right direction mostly.
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