This post discusses the idea of duality and why passivity is a powerful tool in overcoming the state of duality. We tend to hear this term “duality” all the time when reading certain types of spiritual literature but there is a lot of confusion as to what it signifies. The
term has become in many respects a cliché as have terms such as “oneness”. We hear people who have not experienced “oneness” talking about it almost as if it was some social term. “We are all one” they will say, but clearly we are also autonomous beings.
So what is duality and why does it manifest in the unenlightened psyche. The answer is really very straight forward and is as follows: the unenlightened person perceives two aspects to reality, hence the term duality, meaning two. These two aspects are simply that which is viewed as the self and that which…
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