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The Chinese symbol for duality: Yin and Yang. Yin contains a spot of yang and yang contains a spot of yin.
"This is the ancient Chinese symbol for depicting the nature of duality. It is a perfect representation of the polar nature of verbal knowledge. For our purposes, the black dot in the heart of the white half represents the nexus, the link, the connection to the opposite black thought. Likewise, the white dot in the heart of the black half represents the black’s permanent connection to the diametrically opposed white half. In order for any thought to be verbalized either internally or externally, it needs to be connected to another thought. And for anything but simple identification using thoughts about reality thoughts, there will be a dichotomy. That is, as soon as we make distinctions, judgements, evaluations, preferences, choices, etc., there will be a dualistic thought experience. Even if we completely accept one half of the dichotomy and deny the other. We will still have a verbal connection to the denied half being verbalized right along with the accepted half. Hide or deny that part of the accepted as we may, it will still be there.
One example of how this nature of knowledge can work to our disadvantage is the concept of self-esteem. Since we teach people to seek self-esteem more and more, and at ever younger ages. Depression had rapidly increased for adults, and occurs more frequently with youth than ever before. This is because as we seek to be the knowledge of good, the knowledge of evil as self is also sought. We may focus on the good, but the evil is there in spite of our denial. And those who are at all honest with themselves will often wind up depressed; as they find they can't escape the low self-esteem that results from seeking high self-esteem. For how the dilemma of self-esteem is managed by some, see the discussion of the four basic strategies in chapter “Reason Five” that occurs early under section “Becoming,” and also see the discussion on how mystics seek to escape in chapter “Sanity” that occurs about three-fifths of the way down under section “Knowing, Being, And Doing.” Positive self-esteem is always found at the expense of others, just as negative self-esteem is always found at the expense of self. For you to be high, someone must be low.
Unfortunately, the yin and yang symbol is used incorrectly to refer to natures other than thought-knowledge. It has no true meaning when applied to the nonverbal levels. As no dualistic system of philosophy, for example, Zoroastrianism, is or can be correct about anything more than information. Such are over simplifications that do not recognize either the supreme power of God or the uniqueness of His nature, which is quite beyond even a relation to mere dichotomies. Duality requires verbalization and God is ineffable, intangible, invisible, unfathomable, unoriginated, and unalterable."
Above quotation from We're All Insane! Six Reasons Why You're Insane
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LIST OF SOME THINGS THAT ARE DUALISTIC
- Becoming is dualistic.
- Comparisons are dualistic.
- Definitions are dualistic.
- Descriptions are dualistic.
- Desire is dualistic.
- Development is dualistic.
- Dialectics is dualistic.
- Evolution is dualistic.
- Growth is dualistic.
- Imitation is dualistic.
- Knowledge is dualistic.
- Labels are dualistic.
- Language is dualistic.
- Measurements are dualistic.
- Names are dualistic.
- Pleasure is dualistic.
- Practice is dualistic.
- Striving is dualistic.
- Terms are dualistic.
- Thinking is dualistic.
- Thought is dualistic.
- Time is dualistic.
- Trying is dualistic.
- Verbal understanding is dualistic.
- Words are dualistic.
Descartes' Dualism & the 7 Realities
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QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES
"Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman."--Chung Tzu
"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything, or nothing, about it."--Olin Miller
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand."--Eric Hoffer
"Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy."--Richard Barnfield
"There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purpose of human life."--John Stuart Mill
"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."--George Bernard Shaw
"To say dualism is bad or wrong is the worst kind of dualism."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."--Alfred Korzybski
"Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action."--Ecclesiasticus 38:33
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."-- Confucius
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."--Anatole France
"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side--I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."--Bethania McKenstry
"The worst extreme view is the extreme view that extremes never exist."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"If we could learn how to balance rest against effort, calmness against strain, quiet against turmoil, we would assure ourselves of joy in living and psychological health for life."--Josephine Rathbone
"Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has not heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative has no brains."--Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965
"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."--Blaise Pascal
"Goodness is not born of badness."--J. Krishnamurti, Can Humanity Change, page 22
"All language is dualistic."--J. Krishnamurti, Can Humanity Change, page 22
"All opposites are born of their own opposites."--J. Krishnamurti, Can Humanity Change, page 23
"I am saying anything born out of its opposite contains its opposite."--J. Krishnamurti, Can Humanity Change, page 24
"Duality is necessary for things but deadly for self."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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