The Tao of Word

(SSP-4)

The Tao of Duality

Tonight, which is the opposite of day,
I wish to think about duality,
while typing letters which create these words
in Word, a Microsoft word processor.

This personal computer is a perfect
metaphor for that, now come to think
about it. Everything within its world
becomes a binary determination.

Mind is that as well. Except its speed
exceeds ten thousand Buddhas times a Mega
Hertz that’s measured in a God knows what.
In other words, it’s really wicked fast.

But still, despite the engine underneath
the hood, the neighborhood is black and white.
There’s not a thought that’s not a mathematical
equation from a string of ones and zeroes.

But reality is not that way.

29-Dec-2007

Thought World

The core of the Dream, aka Thought World, is duality, and the prime elements of that duality are fear and love.

In the beginning of the Dream, there was thought, and that thought, in order to remain in existence, identified with a second thought. And so on.

Fear is the first thought thinking it may lose its connection, i.e. identification, with the second thought, and as a result, cease to exist.

Love is the first thought sacrificing its connection with the second thought, and in so doing, actually touch reality, its forgotten essence, its Self.

Fear is the way further into the suffering dimensions of Thought World; love is the way out.

Here on Gilligan's Isle

To a New Meta-Paradigm 2

Thought results in a separate virtual reality of knowledge, a world of duality created from the process of thought, and the Human Being's evolution of consciousness is detoured by and into that false reality of knowledge, wrongly believing it to be the true reality.

Because of this detour onto its separate and false way of thought, the Human Being dwells in its world of knowledge, its virtual reality, living in a dream of its own creation.

Therefore the Human Being has developed a false self called the ego (and the super-ego), and because of the essence of that ego's own falsehood and its ultimate void, it is required to acquire its identity in the world of matter, in both external forms and internals forms such as thought and belief.

But acquisition of identity through external and internal form is ultimately futile, becoming an unremitting cycle of wanting, leading to the madness of violence and suffering that is the human being's life on earth.

Giving the Infinite Definition: Thoughts

Let’s continue with ILLUSION.

My THOUGHTS are also illusions, especially opinions, beliefs, and judgments. They consist of binary evaluations (hence duality), just like that of a computer and lead to something more than just a virtual reality, but a virtual persona. Call this the EGO. It too is just a thought.

Some call this the self, with a small s. This non-capitalization, by the way is a very important distinction. There is another Self, with a capital S. They are definitely not the same. Much confusion can come in this regard. But more on that later.

The ego, the self, is just a thought. It too is an illusion.

Binary Thoughts

Maybe the greatest benefit of the personal computer is the metaphor it supplies for a spiritual understanding of the nature of duality.

All these computer programs from Microsoft Word to whatever game of your choice originates in pure binary code. Ultimately everything in the screen we see, as well as everything in the background is controlled by ones and zeroes. Such is its virtual reality.

And such is our so-called reality as well, the only real difference being one of speed and materials. Our mind processes its world with an amazing quickness. Ones and zeroes. Duality.

Its easy to see that software is not really real. How much more difficult then to realize our thoughts aren’t real as well?

Nature is Good

In the essence of duality, we live in our dream (a binary program developed over the years, decades, centuries, etc.).

And while it is true that a tree is a tree because we dream it to be so, it is still, in its essence, raw quantum spirit.

Whereas buildings and such are quantum spirit manipulated to play an integral role in our dream, to such an extent that for the time being such constructions are, in fact, hard dreams, and will be so until they begin their inevitable decay.

When you become steeped in pure nature, the hardware of the dream is left behind, and the possibility of reunion with quantum spirit is greatly increased.

And that is a good thing.

The Real Reality Show

Duality is a survival game.

Reality, on the other hand, is quantum energy, undifferentiated: unity, in other words.

But from the single-cell on earth and upwards, not only has consciousness been amplified, but the environment has been further differentiated in the name of survival: duality eats duality in a logarithmic repast of evolution.

Thus, the amplification of consciousness has a Catch-22.

And, in a very real way, the spiritual pursuit is all about dealing with that catch.