Short Story: A Zen master talks about oneness, and duality
By emptychair
@innertalks (23740)
Australia
January 19, 2023 11:20pm CST
The Zen master, Gregor Zeloski, had been asked a question about duality.
If God is oneness, how can duality exist?
He answered that duality is only temporary, and that oneness is the permanent state.
Duality is mostly just a human concept. It is our tendency to divide things into two opposing parts.
And yet the parts are not really opposing, but taken together show us the same coin, of which, they are just sides.
The two sides of duality build on each other to show us different sides of oneness.
Both aspects of duality are rooted in the same oneness of oneness.
Love is one great oneness, and everything else divides into different sides, to give more scope to the mind to work different ideas for itself, which however should still be energized into life, by the oneness of love in your heart.
Duality is a type of artificiality, added on to oneness, which both adds something to oneness, and takes something away from it too.
When you are positive, for example, you add something to oneness from yourself, but when you are negative, you subtract something from oneness in yourself.
Oneness contains all, but you only contain what you embrace of oneness, and it is you who split oneness into its dual state, when you take sides in one way, or another, in your life.
Duality cannot control oneness.
Oneness does not control duality either, due to the grant of freedom, given to us by God, but oneness allows love to rebalance duality into oneness again, in its own time too, for each part of oneness in duality, with its own individualised uniquely individualised dual operating mind too.
As a soul working with the dual nature, created by our minds, we can make use of this, but at the same time, we can keep the idea of the oneness of love alive in our hearts too.
And he then ended his answer about duality and oneness.
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The old Zen master knew that when we tune into oneness, we tune into God.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
20 Jan 23
Yes. I agree with that.
And at the same time, we would then live from a calm, peaceful mind too, as the love in our hearts, would also power, and energise, the thoughts in our mind too.
@Shiva49 (28380)
• Singapore
20 Jan 23
The oneness of humanity should be enriched by the uniqueness of each of us.
However, we tend to put our egos over our hearts to accentuate we are different and even superior to others.
No one is an island and we need the oneness as a bulwark against fissiparous groups out to divide us.
When the heart taketh over, the oneness becomes resplendent to benefit everyone.
Otherwise, we will be working at cross purposes.
The reality is a few manage to divide us for their selfish goals and we are in their clutches.
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@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
20 Jan 23
Nicely said, siva.
Yes, it's still a dog-eat-dog world, which says little about the real love that most dogs have.
We should develop real love too, instead of trying to make ourselves stand on pedestals of money, and ambition, to acquire the latest gadgets, and technology.
Greed has spread into all areas of life now, and powers all businesses, as well as the individuals in those businesses, to make quick profits, rather than give good service.
@innertalks (23740)
• Australia
22 Jan 23
@Shiva49 Yes, I would be inclined to agree with you there.
Whichever side wins at the ballot box, it is always just more of the same, increased taxes, a busted health system continues, poor public transport worsens, and an increase in salary for the policies themselves, whereas everybody else misses out.
@Shiva49 (28380)
• Singapore
21 Jan 23
@innertalks Thanks Steve, those with a conscience cannot stand the heat of the kitchen of skulduggery and vicious politicking led by ego. They get burned out and want out like Jacinda Ardern.
If this can happen in NZ, how thick are the skin of the supposed leaders in countries where anything goes in the name of politics? The common folks are left to wonder when they are taken for another ride after each election!
My grandmother used to say - whether Rama reigns or Ravana, the fate of the common man remains the same if not worse. Our leaders are one of a kind! They get divorced from the aspirations of the people who elect them with great expectations.
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