10-31-2010, 12:00 AM
dreamgirl wrote:Hey Wei, I did understand, but I did not make it clear, what I meant by Dualistic Enlightenment is that in an enlightened state, which I think you are in, you have realized that to function, process, ect., you have to do this in duality, otherwise no one would be able to understand at all. It is just a moving back and forth with realization.
dreamgirl, yes you summed it up really well. Dualistic experience is only a consequence of seeking knowledge. We can imagine adam and eve in eden and no words between them and they didn't even know each were separate...there was no man and no woman they just were. Then when they tasted of the tree of knowledge suddenly they started to distinguish. It was likely exciting and adventurous to try and discover this universe (fragmented) but they had to leave that sense of inclusiveness behind. Just forgotten awareness. Now in fragmentation, we seek to remember our unity (because fragmentation is painful at times), but knowledge is a precious commodity too having tasted of dual understanding. I don't reside continuously in the awareness of non-duality. Its back and forth realizations as you said.
And thats the value of myth-stories, they give us a visual roadmap of what is actually not visual at all. Whats even more amazing is that we recognize what cannot be seen, tells us much about us. That we recognize it because we know it (remember primordial self). On our journey back to unity, we are not learning (as in dual understanding), we are remembering.
dreamgirl, yes you summed it up really well. Dualistic experience is only a consequence of seeking knowledge. We can imagine adam and eve in eden and no words between them and they didn't even know each were separate...there was no man and no woman they just were. Then when they tasted of the tree of knowledge suddenly they started to distinguish. It was likely exciting and adventurous to try and discover this universe (fragmented) but they had to leave that sense of inclusiveness behind. Just forgotten awareness. Now in fragmentation, we seek to remember our unity (because fragmentation is painful at times), but knowledge is a precious commodity too having tasted of dual understanding. I don't reside continuously in the awareness of non-duality. Its back and forth realizations as you said.
And thats the value of myth-stories, they give us a visual roadmap of what is actually not visual at all. Whats even more amazing is that we recognize what cannot be seen, tells us much about us. That we recognize it because we know it (remember primordial self). On our journey back to unity, we are not learning (as in dual understanding), we are remembering.