January 22, 2009
- Temperance -
Mixing 2 opposing ideas is impossible. If you start with ideas that are separate, if you try to get things from “here” and “there” to combine, you will never be able to achieve a unity.
In doing so, you are only confusing yourself, because the orgins, the root causes, of your ideas are already held by your mind to be separate things. To “mix” or “combine” things implies that they begin as separate, and if they begin as separate, any permanent unity between them is impossible. Only things that are already always combined can achieve a lasting unity.
In order to truly achieve this union of opposites, the co-origin of both ideas must be discovered. Think of a bar magnet. At the ends of the bar are two poles, which repell each other. Yet both poles spring from the center of the bar, where they meet and combine with no fuss at all.
As the Buddha said, “All component things in the world are changeable“. If a thing can be described as a “thing”, it must be separated from all other things, and if that separation is confused with permanence, instead of being realized as just a trick we are doing with our minds, than we suffer.
The only thing that IS, is IS-ness. What Rob Bryanton calls the 10th dimension.
Willhem Reich’s work fits in here as well. Tension in the body is our attempt to separate different parts from each other. It is our way of “componentizing” the body(in the sense of ‘all component things are changable’). We think we have achieved a way to separate our organ-based emotional intelligences, but this just gives rise to suffering, illness, and unhappiness. If we relax the tension between the various parts of our body, these componentizing barriers will disappear. And we become all one again, just as we truly are. This is the wisdom of the body; it is the form from which we learn already-wholeness.
Look at the angel. Each jug, each “thing which holds” is connected to the other by a stream of water. We try to hold water in jugs, and pour them from one to another, when all along we do not realize we are standing in a stream.
