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Dancing Dolphins
Colored Pencil Sketch by Beverly Blanchard |
One
wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are
seduced by different delusions. -- Horace
The
Law of Duality basically states that everything is on a continuum and has a
complementary opposite within the whole.
To use an old adage, there may be two sides of a coin but there is only
one coin. In other words, things that appear as opposites are in fact only two
extremes of the same thing. For instance, heat and cold may appear to be
opposites at first glance, but in truth they are simply varying degrees of the
same thing.
On
the physical level the law of duality is easy to understand. We can make comparisons with physical eye. For instance, there is life and death, day
and night, short and tall, masculine and feminine, near and far, and so forth.
What
becomes problematic with the Law of Duality is when we start thinking that one
aspect of the spectrum is better than the other aspect of spectrum. We get into
labeling things as right or wrong.
Unlike mankind’s laws and morals, there is no right or wrong. For example, in America they drive on the
right side of the road. In England they
drive on the left side of the road. Who
is right and who is wrong? Similarly
there are no good or bad experiences.
Experiences are just experiences nothing more, nothing less. What one learns from the experience is all
that counts. We have all had experiences
that initially proved unpleasant but they became the greatest thing that
happened to us.
Seeing
things from only one perspective is a trap that keeps you locked into one
aspect of a condition. In every
situation in life, under the Law of Duality you are simply seeking to balance
the duality. It is not about operating
in either extreme. It is about keeping
to the middle path. One does not however
deny the moment. To learn how live the
moment all one needs to do is watch a child’s behaviour. They get angry with someone and in the next
moment they forget it. They move
on. No stress.
Currently
there are many who like to label the darkness as evil. There is not a source of
evil. In this universe, there is only a
source of love. There is however negative thought forms as every thought that
has ever been thought is still in existence.
If you attune to these thought forms then you are attuning to that which
is not Source Energy.
It
is also important to understand that in order to be for something; you must be
against something. For and against still
indicates you are operating on the same continuum. It is the reason most of our War Against (drugs,
cancer, poverty, homelessness, etc.) campaigns do not work. What we are essentially doing is focusing our
energies on that which we do not want and in doing so we neglect to define what
it is we do want. As Einstein said, ‘you
cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it.’
When
working with this law you may find that when attempting to balance the duality
you will end up attracting the opposite of what you want. For the moment you call in that which you are
seeking to balance, everything in its opposite will come tumbling into your
life. If you are seeking more clarity,
confusion will seem to reign supreme.
Nothing will seem to be clear anymore, and you will wonder why you ever
started on this journey. Yet, if you continue to work on changing your thinking and your belief patterns you will reach the balance point.
This is what the Law of Duality is all about. It is about reaching a balance point. It is not about operating at either
extreme. It is about remaining at your
centre even when the hurricane of life is swirling around you.
In
the next post I will discuss how to deal with contrast.