The trick of Two

The trick of Twoness, of Duality, takes place because it can envision itself as a whole without Oneness.

Which is, of course, as any geometer knows, absolute nonsense.

Given the fact that One has no need to assert itself or fight back, Two can roam freely and thus create havoc. As much as it departs from One will it, eventually, need to return to it. There is no departing from One, not really. You can pull it off for a span of time, but that's about it.

Maybe embracing the One is a better option. Two within One.

Oneness

Every need, every desire, ultimately leads to the One. It is an attempt to make progress towards one goal, which is Oneness.

Even the urge to be in or with another (another being, another place, another situation) is only a move towards the One. A way to embody the attributes of the One, of the Circle coming full circle: wholeness, expansion, completion, harmonic cyclicity.

Because we have signed in for this experience, or at least I have, we go through many instances of the opposite: separation, disgregation, constriction, cycles which run too fast or too slow. It is all so we can move, slowly (not so slowly, of late!) towards the One. The way towards the One runs through Two.

As soon as I realise this, I get a weight off my chest. I do not float away, there are still mass and volume in my world, in my body; they behave as they should, and do not weigh me down, but rather anchor me in a healthy way.

I also feel light. Oneness is simultaneously light and heavy. It is fine.

Apprehension

We are owned by that which we study, by that which we ponder on.

We might think we apprehend the contents, the ideas, the interrelatedness. It is the other way around. These things shape us and then we shape our world, through them.

Then apprehension takes on a different meaning, that of being arrested, stopped. Not by the police, but by the structures we call our own.

So we need to pay attention to what we study, what we ponder on.

Life/form

The expansiveness of Life is useless without the limits of Form.

The limiting abilities of Form would not last, if they had no Life to contain.

Life looks at its own unravelling and yet pushes outward.

Form sees the outside limit and does not cross it; it keeps it in check.

There is no fight between them, only balance.

This is the ultimate equilibrium within duality.

Above/within

Inasmuch as we let go, our personal density diminishes, and it becomes easier to rise upwards.

In other words: inasmuch as our personal weight gives way to a different density, the density of "consciousness being conscious"... as we accomplish that, it becomes easier to go toward the within.

Above and within are truly one and the same, macrocosm and microcosm, macro=micro.

Us humans, the link between above (heaven-cosmos) and inside (the most intimate, the chemistry of beingness, at a molecular, atomic and subatomic level).

And soaking, soaking, soaking everything, conscience...

Coexistence

The modes of consciousness are simultaneous.

Some of them we are aware of, others we are not.

But they do not compete: they share the total task, so that humans may use them, to the best of their abilities.

Such interrelation without competition is a powerful lesson.

Rational

Both rational and ratio share the same Latin root.

So if something is rational (sensible, coherent), it takes proportion (ratio, balance, correlations) into account.

Proportion is a relationship between elements. It is often linked to beauty and harmony. It implies a harmonious integration of the parts in a whole.

Thus, true rationality regards both the whole and all of its parts. Rationality is, in this sense, inclusive.

Irrationality at its worst would then mean disregarding a part or several parts of a whole, in favour of others. Deviating visibly from an equilibrium, slanting markedly.

There is, of course, another ingredient to add to this: time. Time usually corrects excessive slanting by turning it around and promoting slanting in the opposite direction.