Passenger Lyrics.
"Well, you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know you love her when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go"
Duality of nature
There is a little wisdom you can gain looking at the duality of the nature. For whom this topic is not familiar I will introduce it first. Duality of nature is that there is opposite to what we observe. It may be a color, it may be a concept, it may be some arbitrary observation. Following are some examples. I have previously discussed some of these in detail, and you also will be able to understand and observe some of the dualities with respect to your life.
Ethics and Un ethics
Success and failure
Calmness and chaos
We will yet again discuss one of these dualities to understand core principles. At this point you may ask if everything has a duality what is the opposite of the duality itself? That is a tough question until I realize that it is the spectrum. The spectrum and a continuous nature is the opposite of the duality. Next question is what is a good model to understand the world?
To understand the world both are equally good, but spectrums are much more Suttle in cases duality is highlighted.
Why should you understand duality, and spectrums?
As I have discussed earlier nature is a continuous function. It changes from moment to moment. However, when we try to understand the nature, we cannot comprehend this. As for a continuous function there are so many answers. Infinitely many outcomes. Our mind can comprehend only instances of what we observe. Good example is a falling leaf analogy. We simply say a leaf fell from a tree. But in reality, this was a process with thousands of steps. But to understand we must fix frames in time and talk about it. Similarly, a leaf is also a continuous function. A leaf would slowly change over time. Otherwise, everything would be covered by leaves in a few years and we all will be dead. Sunken in an earth full of leaves. Yet our minds are not able to see this which is just happening in front of our eyes. We need cameras to take photos or memories to compare the instances of these processes of nouns. I have discussed this phenomenon in the discussion on language, as to conclude that there are no nouns, but everything is a verb in the observable universe.
How is duality born?
That there is the answer to the above question. How duality was born. It was born due to our inability to not to understand everything is continuous and a spectrum. That seems a bold claim but seems closer to the truth than duality.
A thought experiment on duality of nature - Duality of mind.
Imagine you are given two colors of the grey spectrum. The moment you see them our mind tend to label one color dark and the other is light. And that is true. It is relatively true. You may ask where the spectrum in it is. Where is the continuous function?
There are several ways to understand the continuous function in it. Just turn off the light in your room and you will see nothing. Although it seems nothing you will see some dark shadows of the same color. It seems the "seeing" in this case is a continuous function. What was black and white a moment ago is now equally black. And if you provide the blackest black against the black, it would be less black. Or lighter. Hence black and white we see are a spectrum and a continuous function. Yet we cannot see this as we observe one instance of this function. Really speaking the black is just a function continually give same output (which is black) over time, only when we change the parameters, we see the output we observe is variable. However, the mind cannot observe it is continuous, hence it crates replica of instances- which are called memory or mental objects. Then only we can compare two colors. What we compare is not even what is outside, just two mental objects which represent some process outside.
So far above is a good model which I have come across. More importantly if you keep watching mindfully day after day, you will understand the process is the same. The duality of the nature is not natural. It is created by our minds. And once we know how to compare two things, we tend to give it a value. And forget the inherent valuelessness of things. Knowing this would help someone to liberate their minds from mental suffering.
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