The dualistic mindset: we can develop a new way of seeing
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- That way of seeing the world always in binaries, it starts to break down. We develop a new way of seeing. We could call it a non dual way of seeing or just call it a mature way of seeing.
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How can we overcome the tendency to see the world in binaries: good/bad, in/out?
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Many of us, our minds and our hearts
are formed in a kind of dualism.
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We always see things in a binary:
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I like it, I don't like it.
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Right, wrong.
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Of us, of the enemy.
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That dualistic mindset
is deeply embedded into us
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and there's great value in that.
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Some foods are healthy,
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some foods are poisonous, right.
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They're real "either or"
issues in life.
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But I think there's something
that happens to some people.
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You live in that "either or"
binary dualistic world
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for long, and then either you start,
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maybe you start to love somebody
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who, you've become
friends with somebody
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or you fall in love with somebody
whose of the other group
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and you've discovered that they aren't
as bad as you were taught to believe.
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Or it might be great
suffering, when
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the people in your own
group mistreat you so badly
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that you think: "we aren't as
right as I thought we were".
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So it might be suffering.
It might be love.
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But whatever it is
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that way of seeing the world
always in binaries,
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it starts to break down.
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We develop a new way of seeing.
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We could call it
a non dual way of seeing
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or a post imperial way of seeing.
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Or we could just call it
a mature way of seeing.
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I think this is what
the contemplative tradition
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has helped people experience.
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It helped them go
through the world of
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"black and white",
"us and them", "in or out"
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and then learning great
wisdom through that
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emerge into something
even bigger and greater
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and more inclusive.