Relationships and Duality

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The following dialogue took place last year. Thought I should post it again.

 

Love to all

 

Harsha

 

 

Xan: Everything here is relationship. That's what duality means.

"Relationship" has come to connotate the intimate-man-woman-thing. If

you decided to reject and refuse relationships then you would stop

eating food, enjoying the view or even breathing air.

 

Harsha: Well stated. But there is no need to limit the notion of

"relationships" only to external perceptions such as men, women, food,

things, views, etc. Relationships exist also in states where the perceptions

are "internal" (such as sleep or even Savikalpa Samadhis). The foundation of

all relationships is built on perceptions whether they are external (men,

women, animals, things, etc.) or internal (dreaming about men, women,

animal, things, etc,. or having various kinds of visions in the

superconscious states of angels, heavenly objects, celestial regions, etc.).

It makes no difference whether the perceptions are external or internal, the

perceiver is in relationship with the perceptions. Duality ends when the

Perceiver and Perceived (Seer and the Seen) merge. Mystics like Kabir and

Jnaneshwar have written beautiful poetry to describe this "Unity."

 

Xan: Would you consider that the phenomenon of relationship is not hell but

opposition is? When there is consciousness in wholeness what is there

to oppose? If I am opposing anything I short-out my experience of

wholeness.

 

Harsha: Why can't one oppose a relationship and maintain Wholeness.

Sometimes, it is wise to walk away from a relationship with a situation or a

person. Let us say someone who knows Karate is feeling angry with Ted. It

would be wise for Ted to make a run for it while maintaining perfect

wholeness and integrity.