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?

Fox it isn't so much the language/sound barrier which forms the obstacle. The obstacle of having the feeling we understand one another on in a thoughtfull manner. The fact that you seem to try to make it understandable for your mind is not the way, I learned that it is the emotions and feelings you have with it that give you the understanding. But as we all know...a lot of emotions can't be put into words. Similar to the "One picture says more then a thousand words" kinda deal.

The list you provided gave me a flash of the Mobius sign in my mind. In the way that...everything is connected. There is no end, nor a beginning and it just keeps going on in an eternal circle, so the speak.

How you explained it is similar how I feel about it. If you don't judge and look at each event as a solitary one you woný have dualistic thought and more of a "cause-reaction" based view on matters. Indeed like the Tao which is in constant movement and can't be defined nor controlled. If you make it go one way it goes the other.

Each and every little thing has a common ground which it shares. The most obvious is that everything is made up from energy. Our thoughts, emotions as well as various lifeforms. I wonder though...are there other things that everything has in common? Like humans who have different skin color, religious beliefs, social standards...but in the end we're all made up from flesh and 70-ish% water as well as energy. There we go, a common ground for ALL people to focus on and get rid of the differences and unneeded conflicts