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Symbolizing Non-Duality: Musings on the meaning of the Taijitu (Yin/Yang symbol)
The Chinese Taijitu symbol is a beautiful illustration of non-duality. It contains both poles of the duality - yin and yang, the feminine and the masculine, passive and active, dark and light - whose relation is always in motion. The symbol shows their interdepence by illustrating that each pole contains some of the other, implying that reality cannot be reduced to one or the other pole - black or white, yin or yang.
How to enlighten yourself.
There is this quote from Gilbert Keith Chesterton, a 19th century English writer, poet, philosopher and theologian, that has been flowing through my mind these days:
“Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.”
Orthodoxy, VII. The Eternal Revolution.
What he basically means is that seriousness is not a virtue, something we have forgotten as a society these days. We have made everything so heavy with our seriousness. Let us lighten up a little bit. Why not give it a shot? Whole spiritual traditions have attested to its efficacy to get you to heaven. And why hold on to what brings you down? Your pain, your guilt, the wrongs others have done to you. Let them go and you’ll instantly feel lighter, ready to float upwards.