Dualistic thinking Options

Dualistic thinking is very relevant to people following spiritual paths of any kind, since it involves believers who claim to see and experience another existence and others who having not experienced anything they would describe as other-worldy, disregard these claims and it therefore divides people into two camps.

The language used is also a form of dualism as it separates entities into good and bad and places into discrete areas thus: Heaven and Hell.

Is dualistic thinking useful and a good way of hanging ideas on hooks for further exploration or does it lead to extremes of thought that lack balance and settle people into positions that are hard to find their way out of?

hehe, i agree with many points.

our problem with this discussion lies within the language we use. If we want to explain something like non dualistic thinking we can only revolve around the point. the point itself, non dualistic thinking, is not something the english language is capable to deal with. It is beyond human logic and requires a high level of enlightenment to understand.

I know what you are getting at, i can almost taste it. But we cannot explain. our language is too limited.

non dualistic thinking requires detachement, viewing both choices as the same value. when you can understand the following, then you understand non-dualistic thinking.

death = live
murder = giving birth
holocoast = population explosion
eating = shitting
eating = carb training
hot = cold
water = earth
air = fire
energy = no-energy
...

When you are able to understand that all dualities are the same...
There is only tao. and it flows.

Be aware that the above is reality, but not human opinion and morality. Human morality is important. Everybody desires to be happy, and to make someone happy you have to follow his personal state of mind.

It can be seen as this. if an enlightened one sees the truth, that does not mean he has to completely agree and surrender to it. We still have free will, so we can choose to make people happy playing upon there dualistic rules. That does not mean we have to agree to there rules.

Classic example is the girlfriend. Men often do something they themselves find completely stupid, just in order to make a girl happy. They do not believe the same dualisms as the girl, but they know what the girl believes and act accordingly.

So, one could say an enlightened one has one moral law: "making other people happy, just becouse (s)he loves everybody."

the precise details of this state of life, that seems to exist entirely of a state of love, cannot be described by human language.