A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma January 7, 2014
Dualistic Divisions
We
divide our world into me/you, friend/enemy, desirable/ undesirable,
fulfilling/frustrating, and so on. It’s a natural process, but a very
arbitrary, utterly subjective one. Somehow we’re able to ignore
this last fact. We’re in dualistic division mode, and we act on that;
all sorts of emotions come into play, and we act on them. We reinforce
the tendencies—Buddhists might say, we create or compound karma—that
make the illusion thicker, stickier, more solid. And the further we are
from truth, the more elusive happiness becomes.
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- Pamela Gayle White, “The Pursuit of Happiness”
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