World Without Polarity

 

Instead of night and day, you have dawn, dusk, twilight, morning, evening, afternoon, eerie, peaceful, noisy and on and on until all you are left is this moment. This time. You. Here. Now.

 

 

Instead of friend and enemy, you have acquaintances, biz friends, personal friends, irritating people, friendly strangers, inquisitive children until all you are left with is the person in front of you doing what they are doing, with you feeling what you are feeling as you see them. 

 

Kaleidoscopic, luminous, transparent…

 

It's obvious isn't it? 

 

That's the real world. You already have that world!

 

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When your world reduces to right and wrong, to up and down, to night and day and friend and enemy - that is the fictitious world. That is the world that exists only in your imagination. It's a dream world that has very little to do with what is real. 

 

Your world of polarities is a fiction. Around the world politics is increasing it's dysfunctionality due to this fictitious polarity. Polarity is an imagined lie, and it's a great way to terrorize your Self and others.

 

Recall the last time you were depressed or angry or sad?

 

I'll wager you were/are living in that either/or world. It's "this" or "that" and the extraordinary diversity of living no longer exists: She did that to me. I can never do this. I am great. You are wrong. My posture is bad. Your posture is good.

 

On and on and on go the polarities…

 

In this moment. At this time. In this place. What is real? 

 

Physics tells us - this chair is disintegrating with each passing nanosecond. Yet I feel it looks the same. I feel it is the same chair I saw yesterday. It is not. It is a different chair.

 

Feelings and thoughts are also never alike, until I feel they are. Until I make polarities of them. When I cease to question and inquire about what is happening in this exact situation. Instead, I see it as a repeat of my past - that is the lie. Nothing repeats in the same way, not ever. Ideas and feelings grow and change - evolving into mastery, or obsession  or a quirky personality. 

 

Call it what you like. This is an adventurous, exciting and novel world. This is your child's world projected into adulthood. It's the real world, the one we actually live in.

 

However…

 

Whenever I am frightened, I have retreated into my fictitious world. Seeing only two options, my fear increases. It's down or up, success or failure, do or be done. Such a scarce world, such an empty world to live in.

 

How can you escape it? 

 

Cooperate with curiosity.

 

Ask questions. Inquire.

 

Invite your Self back into the real world by questioning the truth of your fixed polarities. When you question, you find out more.

 

Cooperate with curiosity.