Limited Vision

After a few days of thinking about it, I'm not entirely happy with what I wrote in my last post. I need to clarify some things and maybe re-state them.

I wrote:

What about Left without Right? (Etc.) Where do we live? We do not live on the endpoints of those lines. We live on those entire lines, the whole enchilada! That is as close to non-duality (wholeness) as we can get.

After thinking more about that the last couple of days, I'll say this. For one thing, using number lines to picture a continuum is to be using an analogy, and any analogy breaks down if relied on too much.

I said we live on those lines, and yes, we live on at least a very large section of those lines. We don't live at -400F or +400F, and yet we can measure with devices environments we can't physically inhabit. So in a sense we do experience extremes.

But the point of what I was writing was that we don't have an attachment to a particular point on any of those lines. An attachment is when we say that any one point is better than other points on that line. Don't like football more than anything else in your life, or your life will suffer. Don't worship computers or video games, or be overly obsessed with having the greenest lawn, because your life will suffer. That's the point I was trying to make.

Yes, we live those lines, left & right, up & down, hot & cold, rich & poor. But we only see a small section right around us, almost as if we are driving on a foggy road and you can only see 30 feet around you, front & back. We have limited visibility. Why can't we see everything? I suspect it is related to the idea of duality & non-duality. It's like we live in a duality bubble, or cloud.

But just think of it for a moment. What if you're in a white room, with white furniture and white objects. Everything in the room is white. What would perfect lighting be, for such a room? Perfect light would be muted enough so that you can discern the edges of things, the shape of the things around you. Maybe in a similar way, we couldn't handle the full view, just like very young plants and animals are frail and need protective sheltering from the full onslaught of life. We are very young, and our eyes are still closed!