August 29, 2024 – B

Life is an optical illusion.
We live with a foot in different worlds,
on different paths.
It is like this and that at the same time.
The Buddhists like to say, "All is one."
Everyone else knows it is anything BUT one.
The Buddhists even admit it
with their, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him."

There is "the Buddha" and there is "not the Buddha."

They also say, "If you meet an elephant on the path,
GET OFF the path!"

There is "the elephant" and there is "not the elephant."
And it pays to distinguish between the two.

On another hand, also a dichotomy,
they would be happy to affirm Einstein's postulate
that it is all energy
(Rocks, etc. are composed of atoms
with whizzing electrons at their center) 
and "energy can't be created or destroyed,
only converted or transformed."

Which is to say, "It is all one."
"Two-ness" (Or "multifaceted-ness") is "One-ness."
And, it is also two-ness (or multifaceted-ness)
at the same time,
depending on how we look at it,
in a now you see it, now you don't kind of way,
like an optical illusion,
which is dependent upon duality to work.

Not that it matters.

Unless you like balance and harmony,
serenity and tranquility,
and enjoy the idea of oneness being multifaceted-ness
(or duality being non-duality)
the way energy is a rock
at the same time.