Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Moral Dualism

Moral dualism is the belief of the conflict as in western religions or coexistence as in eastern religions of two entities the good and the evil or "benign" and the "malign". Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism. In the dual mind, which is the personal ego we're all operating out of, knows by comparison, by differentiation, by distinction and by separation. It's a process of affirmation and denial, the classic Western debate and the smarter person is supposed to win. Dual thinking is good in the world of science, ordinary logic of getting you through the day. But once you approach mystery, infinity, eternity, God, the great concepts like freedom, the dualistic mind falls short. It can't deal with it, it can't know it, it divides the field. The dualistic thinking is inherently a self-cancelling system. It always divides. On the other hand the contemplation is simply my word for non-dual thinking, where you get your own ego and fear out of the way, and you look at things as they are, not as you want them to be, it just is what it is what it is. And you let that confront you. That's always a humiliation for the ego. So that's why people don't like to grow up into the contemplative mind, or non-dual thinking, because it is experienced as a loss of control.