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October 9, 2008 - 8:48 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Bob Murphy
2008-10-10 15:15:38

@Buddy and Slade
“Is there anything under the sun that has no flip side?”
Yep.
But as soon as you start using words, the intellect/mind to describe it you split it. But you need the black/white yin/yang contrast to perceive it in verbal/intellectual terms.
It can be perceived in a much more integrated way but not using chatter mind, even at the profound level of chatter mind y’all use. And I find your usage often breathtaking and profound, a source of wonder even, sometimes.

But there was a guy named Sosan, a monk, who summed up the essential contradiction of intellect which separates the practitioner from what he perceives.
“The struggle of what one likes,
and what one dislikes,
is the disease of the mind.”

And that is where we start splitting the whole.

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