The fork in the road of oneness: Duality
By emptychair
@innertalks (23742)
Australia
December 28, 2015 9:59pm CST
Do we ever have to decide which fork of the road to take?
Or is it more that we are already on one of these forks, and that we must walk along it until the two ends of that Y meet together in oneness?
Is it us then that have created this idea of duality?
In truth, it has never existed then, at all.
When we reintegrate duality back into oneness, we gain its wisdom, and truth, and then we will lose our ignorance, of these things.
What is oneness, and why does duality seemingly keep us from seeing its truth?
Duality lives in our minds, oneness in our hearts. As long as we think through our mind, duality will persist.
When we live from love alone, by loving God with our heart, mind and soul, this reorganises us inwardly, and realigns us into fitting into our spot within oneness, and when the piece is refitted in its exact spot, oneness becomes whole for that piece then again too.
This is the paradox of separation existing within oneness, it doesn't and yet it does.
What do you think?
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
29 Dec 15
duality of mind and body really starts with Descartes but once the body perishes so does the mind
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
30 Dec 15
@innertalks Isn't disappearing the same thing? If it isn't here for us the mind is neither use nor ornament. It is the part of us that defines us and lets us perceive our world.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
30 Dec 15
@innertalks we are just passing through - whatever road we travel - we should just admire the view while we can
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
30 Dec 15
@arthurchappell I meant that it disappears because really it was never there to perish.
We just borrowed it for a time from the Universal mind, attaching a part of it to ourselves, or more connecting ourselves to it. Maybe it is the connection that is no longer there, and it is the connection that has caused us to think that we are separate entities.
In its overall effect though, I guess you are right, no sense splitting hairs about the use of words.
@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
30 Dec 15
Of course Jesus Christ said that he and his father were one. Perhaps this means indirectly that all is one, in a way. This one, or this I am, is all there is. We just think we are separate, and when we join ourselves to someone else we become one with them, and Jesus because he could do this with all of creation, was one with all of creation.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
1 Jan 16
@just4him Jesus also said that when we marry, the two marrying become one flesh.
For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
This verse comes from Saint Mark's gospel, chapter 10, verses 7 and 8.
Bible > Mark > Chapter 10 > Verse 8? Mark 10:8 ?Parallel VersesNew International Versionand the two will become one flesh.' So they are no longer two, but one flesh.New Living Translationand the two are united into one.' Since they are no longer two but on
@1hopefulman (45111)
• Canada
29 Dec 15
There are always choices to make and at times it's hard to know which way to go. Life is not easy. Yes, knowing God helps a lot but at times we still take a wrong turn and must change our way.
@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
29 Dec 15
Agreed Happy, life is not easy.
We can take many wrong turns, which we might regret taking, but in the end our journey is a straight one in its way, because I think that all paths ultimately are going in the same direction, in that they have the same destination, in a way.
That is if God really has set up this life for us to live it first, and then to find our way back to him again, by the unique path that he has made, just for us to take.
Whatever happens, I believe in some way, we are always being directed back again to this path, whenever we might stray from it, some nudge, or intuition-al thought will prompt us to change our way, if we remain open to doing so.
@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
1 Jan 16
and unfortunately, when they do go down that wrong fork for them, it usually skewers them good and proper on its prong. It's harder to change yourself, when you are padlocked to someone else, and have lost your free will.
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