Is there really duality?

Question

I have a hard time believing in good and bad, up and down, left and right.

"Not good or evil but good and evil." I like that.

Answer 1

I don't know.

Answer 2

Eh, the whole concept is just Greek philosophers trying to explain the reality they see -- and we don't think people are made up of elements anymore, so maybe we need to rethink the dualistic view of the universe as well.

I prefer the trichotomy view (granted, it's from Aristotle, another Greek dude): reality (or virtue, or goodness, or whatever) is a line down the middle, on either side of which is a misperception of reality (or a vice, or evil, or whatever). With the virtues, for example, in the middle would be, say, courage. On one side is cowardice (a lack of courage), and on the other side is recklessness (an excess of courage, or courage used in an undisciplined manner).

But even that is sometimes insufficient. There are lots of choices that result in neither good nor bad (like, striped shirt or solid shirt?), or choices between something good or something better (like, give a thousand dollars to starving children or ten thousand dollars?), or choices between something bad or something worse (like, hate my brother today, or hate him forever?), etc. My point, I guess, is not to give into moral relativism (the philosophy of the lazy-minded, since it's defined by what it's NOT), but to explore what is left if you reject the good/bad, up/down, left/right duality -- embrace the complexity!

Answer 3

Yes, there really is. Now, that's not to say duality nessicarily applys to all the things you've mentioned, but in physics there are many concepts of duality such as particle and anti-particle and the dual nature of light.

Sometimes light acts like an energy wave but other times it behaves like a particle, acting under the effects of gravity for example. One theory about this is that it's not particle OR wave.. but particle AND wave, and furthermore that it is not only light but everything that this applys to.

Maybe it's not good or evil, but good and evil at the same time.

Answer 4

for centuries philosophers have been tortured with this problem.
the answer is yes, there is a santa claus. For every plus there is a minus. we can call them polarities.....and they do not have to match exactly.....for example
good vs. evil or bad
wanting to go to work or wanting to sit at home
love and hate
friendship and lonliness

each time we have a goal, we often have a counter goal
or an opposing thought--thus we have created our own duality
see PEAT processing with sivorad for a deeper explanation

he has techniques which resolve these inner conflicts

Answer 5

now keep in mind if youre talking on the self-level, what you can visualize and percieve in your current time-based moment,
you may not always be able to SEE the balance of This & That.
It may take time for equlibrium in your realm of things.. but guarenteed in the Entireness, there's going to be balance, the ebb and flow of the ocean.

Answer 6

duality is like time....completly conceptual. as humans, we often have to categorize and analyze everything. we have to have someway to measure things in order to control them. so we came up up with the concept of opposites working with each other.

Answer 7

There is only one and rest what you see is mere reflections like being in the house of mirrors.

Answer 8

everything is... what's GOOD can be BAD, that's UP will come DOWN, & what's LEFT is a eality of no wrong or RIGHT.

Answer 9

Not for everything.

Answer 10

That is why there are choices.