Understanding no boundary

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Here are some notes I've adapted from Ken Wilber's book

NO BOUNDARY. For whatever it may be worth sharing...

They remind me how to live in complete harmony...

Perhaps we overlook harmony in our veganism. We tend

to cling to the pain because it defines us.

~Ernie

 

 

Why are we unhappy?

Because 99.9 percent

of everything we think

and everything we do

is for ourself alone

and there isn't one

when we're unhappy.

 

Only parts suffer

not the whole.

 

We're released from suffering

when we realize the part is an illusion--

there is no separate self to suffer

 

We are always (and ever have been) the Whole

which knows only freedom, release and radiance

To realize the Whole is to escape the fate of a part

which is only suffering, pain and death.

 

For heaven is not

as pop religion would have it

a state of all positives and no negatives

but a state of realizing " no opposites "

or " not-two-ness "

as Jesus said in the Gospel of St. Thomas:

 

They said to Him: Shall we then, being children,

enter the Kingdom? Jesus said to them:

When you make the two one, and

when you make the inner as the outer

and the outer as the inner and the above

as the below, and when

you make the male and the female into a single

one,

then you shall enter the Kingdom.

 

The old Chinese sage Lao Tzu said:

Is there a difference between yes and no?

Is there a difference between good and evil?

Must I fear what others fear? What nonsense!

Having and not having arise together

Difficult and easy complement each other

Long and short contrast each other

High and low rest upon each other

Front and back follow each other.

 

Chuang Tzu elaborated:

Thus, those who say that they would have been right

without its correlate wrong; or good government

without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend

the great principles of the universe, nor our nature

of all its creation. One might as well talk of the existence

of Heaven without that of the Earth, or of the

negative principle without the positive, which is

clearly impossible. Yet people keep on discussing it

without stop; such people must either be fools or knaves.

 

Ultimate reality is the unity of opposites.

 

False imagination teaches that such things as

light and dark, long and short, black and white

are different and to be discriminated; but they

are not independent of each other; they are only

different aspects of the same thing, they are terms

of relation, not of reality. Conditions of existence

are not of a mutually exclusive character; in essence

things are not two but one.