What actions brings us closer or further away to/from the light

[Taomeow]

5 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

 

Great point about the all-too-often forgotten yin side and the importance of darkness. I take it on faith that the word "enlightenment" refers to a real phenomenon, but I´ve never much liked the word -- or the endless fractious discussions that spring up around it -- perhaps because the emphasis on light feels so one sided to me.  In a similar vein, what´s with our cultural overemphasis with going up?  Seems to me it´s just as important to go down.  Like yin and yang, I think one begets the other.  If you wanna go up ya gotta go down; wanna go to the light, find the darkness.

 

Very true. 

 

Also...  In taiji, we always go slightly back before any move forward -- it sort of helps gain the correct vector, along with "stitching together" the move forward with the previous one --

which was also forward so if you "stitch" forward to forward you can't get a seamless move! 

 

And after a turn to the left, a turn to the right follows, and then if you still need to keep going to the left you go slightly to the right first.  And of course opening and closing alternate -- opening is akin to light/yang/expansion, closing, to dark/yin/contraction...  and they interchange continuously.  (One hallmark of bad taiji is when they don't, and the practitioner remains "too open" or "too closed" without minding this rhythm.)  Sorry...  couldn't resist a taiji example -- "everything" philosophy is therein, it so happens that all questions are answered there...  including those one hasn't thought of asking.  

[Nungali]

An action that takes us away from the light ;  

 

Constructing   'migrant cages ' 

 

 

[BigSkyDiamond]

non-duality goes beyond both light and dark.

it is before any polarity.

 

polarized thinking is  unbalanced, just as mood swings are unbalanced.

black and white thinking is problematic.

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by BigSkyDiamond