Attribution

Important note: All the posts on this blog were written by Bob Harwood (AKA 'zendancer') on the forum spiritualteachers.proboards.com. I have merely reposted a collection of them in blog format for the convenience of seekers. Some very small mods were made on occasion to make posts readable outside of the forum setting they were made in.

All dualities are imaginary

...but most peeps do not realize how they psychologically arise. They do not grasp the "mutually dependent arising of form and void," to paraphrase the words of the Buddha. There is no yinyang magic; to imagine form requires the simultaneous (but usually unrecognized) imagining of emptiness or formlessness as a polar opposite. To imagine anything requires the mind to artificially divide that which is inherently whole into at least two imaginary states. Most people become attached to one half of a polarity and ignore the other.

Does form exist? Well, it does if that's what someone wants to imagine, but when the mind is quiescent, that which is seen can only be pointed to as "alive and unified"--a verb rather than a noun.