120. The Dynamics of Opposites or Duality

Creation is functional as wholeness. There are no opposites, and what is - is only what is happening. The mental conditioning that is responsible for dividing the experiencing of wholeness into subject and object, confines the subject to be limited to the body and this is just an illusion. Life loves to play the game of duality. Its a crazy game, involving huge suffering at a superficial level, as if the design of duality works on the focus of suffering.

Separation is already the start of the 'seeming' reality of opposites taking in, its roots. We are conditioned to believe that we are separate, meaning, we are separate form the world around us, in a simple way that 'what is not the world' is 'we' and 'what is not we' is 'the world'. We are the subject of the objective world. This is a myth, and when believed so, is the core cause of ignorance on which duality thrives. Thus begins illusion of a 'reality' subject is separate from its opposite, which is the objective world - from childhood until old age.

The cause of suffering, is the belief in separation, which leads further to more beliefs that 'opposites' can exist independent of each other. But this is a lie. All opposites are just an idea of focus at a part of the whole. To win a battle is to lose the war. To win an argument is to lose a relationship. To seek pleasure is to remain in pain. To seek happiness is to remain in unhappiness. What we want is our lack. But the wanting is the creator of the lack. the seeking is the cause of a lack. However we are conditioned to practice seeking one, as if its opposite is is not following us as a shadow to show up as reality in time. Even birth has death attached to it, separated by an illusory time. The cause and effect is not separable.

To win or conquer is to have control. Just like we wish the control to be with us, or we can say that we do not wish to be controlled, the other, also, being same in essence has to follow the same belief. It simply means to give rise to a situation that all want to control but not body wants to be controlled. How is it possible?. To win over the other, seems healthy for you, but is surely unhealthy for the other. In this creation, where me and other is just an illusion, this rule ends in a failure. Creation has its base in harmony and happiness, if understood correctly. The idea of using one to the advantage of other, is bound to fail. The belief that opposites can be sought independent of each other is ignorance and is the cause of a resultant reaction, that we call suffering,

To come to an understanding, which is not a conclusion, but an energetic experience that 'one' is the 'wholeness' and separation is a myth, can result in ironing out most of our ignorant ideas of who or what we are and complete the process of the living experience in a harmonious and happy way. Life will offer may chances to conclude this aspect of living, but the mind, conditioned to be separate will forge itself into more separation by acting selfishly time after time. One day, when the burden of separation is not bearable, it could dissolve onto the ocean of wholeness. The earlier we ponder on this, the earlier we can let go of our ignorant beliefs and just let wholeness guide us to a simple and clear living.

So, what to do?. Just take every event is one's life and others too, to see how, the maintaining a limited self  has caused more suffering in the long run, and how being connected to each other, made one live a smooth sailing. Little by little, we can reverse our attitude of who we think we are, and be in that wholeness, to stay in a place where the world of aliveness of being connected always feels a better place to be. Bring about a change within, that would seem to take care of the ignorance that we are not separate but connected, will make a world of difference to oneself.

119. Cause and Effects pointing to the Truth

An effect points to its cause, as we imagine them to be. This idea comes to us, from Science. Science is based on this thesis. So whatever is discussed on manifestation of matter, from a scientific angle, takes into account, the answers to 'why's and 'how's and a record of explanation is maintained, until proved wrong. So when the research is done purely from the context of cause and effect, proved or disproved, the results are effected as correct or incorrect, but the premise is here to stay. This continuous activity, gives rise to, cause and effect being a 'fact', in the similar lines that -all that we experience from the point that, a 'me' to the body is 'real', or let us say, experience the world in duality, the 'me' is strengthened to remain in power as 'real'. So, in a way, we enpower the power of thought. It works in the objective world,  to some extent, to keep the game of duality interesting, but is not useful in the subjective analysis, of who we are, as some kind of absolute truth.
Let me give you an example. Let is take the correctness of  'Electricity' being an absolute fact. We dont doubt that electricity is something unknown. However we only see heat or light and magnetism as effects of electricity. No one can know what 'electricity' is. It cannot be known per say. We know all its effects, including that body gets a shock, and the multimeter can make measurements, based on its 'torquing' effects. But in general, electricity by itself, is just a name, that can effect all that was stated above. Some will say, electricity is an energy of some kind, and more and more discussion can be made around this. But finally, what is electricity? its a source, that generates all those effects, we discuss, including that it is 'energy'. But energy also should have a source. Similarly, we then ask, what is the source of electricity?. To this, we may or may not come up with an answer. Its stops as we arrive at its definition. After that, we draw a blank, because we invented the limit of sourcing. We may say, that one is stupid to ask questions about something, prior to its definition. So the definition becomes the source of an effect that is conceptualised. As if the word is the source and concepts are its effects.
So truth can be said to be the mother of all defined sources, prior to its definition, that were concepts. It is the sources of all causes, distilled from its effects. Because, each and every effect can be taken back to its cause, which being an effect can be reduced to its earlier cause and so on and so forth. Its like object to a subject. To know this subject, it must be made into object to its knowing subject, and can go on, into an endless regression. until one is tired of subjecting objects to subjectification.
Hence when we analyse cause and effect, to its root cause, 'you' may end up being the root cause of this universe, no matter what is being effected. In the absence of such a 'you', that you truly are, nothing can take place, to have an effect or its cause. That make a 'you' as the root cause or 'source' of all that there is, as an happening, called it's effect. So the effects are simply an expression of its cause. We can sense the effects, but they point back to its cause. They point back at 'you' as source to existence. If we are curious enough to get hold of the root cause, you would soon find 'yourself' dissolve as an effect, merging into its cause, as if the cause and effect could never ever be seen in separation. Such merging, of the sense of 'you' into the 'I' business, or the source of existence can be defined as 'Life', which should not need further objectification. Objectivity is an effect of Being, and what can be experienced is this objectivity, which you simply are not and what we truely are, if we should accept such a 'we' that is, is aliveness or 'knowing capacity, by which all creation can be known. So the idea that 'we' are an 'objective' entity to another 'objective' body is only 'knowledge' passed on in duality, and is here to stay, to let the game of duality be played in its own style, while its not true to identify ourself as limited to this body mind, and open up to the source prior to objectification.
So 'you' are the cause of this world and what is happening as an experience.