WHY does LIFE come in OPPOSITE?

Question

Have you ever wondered why life comes in opposites? Why everything you value is one of a pair of opposites? Why are all decisions between opposites? Why all desires are based on opposites?

Answer 1

zim

the existence is bipolar. on one end is love on the other is hatred. on one end is white on the other is black. on one end is birth and on the other it is death. even, on one ende is the existence (matter) and on the other it is non existence (anti matter).

you call this bipolarity as the pair of opposites. yes you can. because the language we use, describes this polarity as opposites. we use only those words which are available in the dictionary of our language.

i have met some Indian Sadhus (ascetics) and Japanese Zen practitioners. for them life and death, desire and abandoning is not opposite but are two events. they do not find one event as the opposite of the other. these are just two events. our languages call them as opposites.

for sadhus and zens these events are related but in some other way. they call them as two ends of some chain out of which some portion is known to us and remaining is not.

zim
i think i could say whatever was relevent on this aspect.
best wishes


my source is the material studied at the webssite

http://www.lightinlife.com/



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Answer 2

That sad state is the result of the either-or delusion. There are statistical distributions, but that concept is harder than opposites so most people default to opposites because they live on a planet with day-night cycles.
For example. The conscious-unconscious fallacy.
In reality, there are nine levels of consciousness, or 8 depending on whether your philosophy includes Vasubandhu's "Clear Mirror Consciousness," or not. The conscious and unconscious are the sixth and seventh levels and are no more opposite than inside-outside your body. They are different functions in a continuum, not opposites, just like your body also includes the air and water cycles of the whole planet. Just because some connections aren't visible. doesn't mean they don't exist. Just because we function better with bilateral symmetry on the easily visible aspect of our bodies, doesn't mean the left is opposite the right. Just look at your internal organs.

Answer 3

I did. I was about 9. I can remember the instance. I saw that here somebody is happy because a baby is born in the family, another is grieving because a relative has passed away. Also, the same person is happy to-day and unhappy the next. "This is how it is here", I said to myself," happiness is paid for by unhappiness. What if someone were to give me the choice of living 'in the middle', no unhappiness, but also no happiness. What would I choose?"

Now this was not easy to answer. I was only 9. Practically all of life still lay ahead of me. Everything was still possible. It may turn out that in my case the pleasant and good will outweigh (and heavily, too, hopefully) the unpleasant and bad; why not? So in that case it would be 'a good deal' to go through the unpleasant. Or was Life reserving one great happy event worth going through all the unpleasant for. And this state of 'the middle'? Does it mean dullness, non-life, or a state of serene stillness without the extremities of elation and despair? Will it be any different from non-existence?

It was only later that I realized that one just cannot fool Life. One can fool only oneself. And despite the setbacks, the disappointments, the whole turmoil that is life, one keeps on fooling oneself that the hoped-for pleasant comes, but not the unwelcome unpleasant.

So, as I see, the reason why life comes in opposites is so that we are led away from it, through the very experience of it, to that 'middle', to finally choosing choiclessness.

Answer 4

I subscribe to thinking in terms of duality You can't fully know, experience or appreciate something unless it has an opposite. How can you know good without evil? Dark without light? Love without hate? Masculine without feminine? As a side note I would suggest avoiding the use of absolutes. Not "all" decisions are between opposites nor are "all" desires based on them. Though come to think you may be right about using the absolute term "everything" in regards to what you value.

Answer 5

Far out bru'--- like have you been smoking the green stuff again? No, seriously, I suppose it's like the Yin and Yang, the Male and Female, Positive and Negative- just the way of the universe- as above so below and vice versa. We live in a universe of polarities which we perceive even in our mundane lives.....

Answer 6

Without opposites, everything would be 1 dimensional. Think about it!

Answer 7

Easy answers are not always wrong... but often, the easiest answers are the ones that somehow support our emotional inclinations. If we feel passionately about something or someone, we will immediately prefer the explanation that confirms our feelings. But sometimes we project our opinions on to situations where very different criteria ought to apply. You now feel very sure about something. Think again. Really question your own certainty. If it doesn't go away, trust it. If it does, revise it.

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Answer 8

Everything needs a compliment. So a green will have and opposite, a red! So on and so on.
Everything needs an opposite.

Answer 9

No I haven't because inherently I know why. You must have the light and the shadow to see form. The yin yang, the balance of opposites.

Answer 10

Because that is just the way it is. We develop things in constructs that are easy for us to understand. It's pretty hard to get black or white wrong.