RE: Nondualism vs Dualism
April 16, 2019 at 10:49 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2019 at 10:50 pm by Belacqua.)
(April 16, 2019 at 10:22 pm)Won2blv Wrote: I'm curious what y'all believe concerning dualism vs nondualism. I say both
I tend to agree with you.
Those spiritual writers I most admire speak of the universe as wholeness, the One, which we nonetheless perceive as the Many.
In Chinese: the 不二 (the Not-Two) vs. the 万物 (the Ten Thousand Things). Neoplatonists and many others have referred to the One as God.
The trouble is that humans have limited perception and can't perceive the One. For us, we must divide and compare in order to understand.
In Japanese, the character 分 means both "divide" and "understand."
Some people say that in special circumstances we can perceive that we are not divided from the One, but I haven't had this chance.
