The contrast between this view of the natural world and the view of volcanic destruction and hurricane devastation, etc. and it is all the Truth of how things are. The duality of the beautiful and the monstrous is a congruity. “It’s all one, y’all!). And the truth is more than I can bear. For me, this image does not negate, or compensate for all those other images. It makes them all the more appalling. And we have to hold them all together. How do we do that and maintain our balance and harmony, our rhythm and compassion? This is the question that makes “This, too! This, too!” at the heart of Tao, Psyche, Intuition essential to the spirit of oneness that shines through the Tao Te Ching. The apposition of opposites is the essence of Taoist/Zen Koans, with contradictions, incongruity, paradox, anomaly and conundrums being used to shut down the logical mind and create an opening for Intuition and Psyche to offer the Ah-Ha! moment of realization beyond explanation, like the impact of a good joke and a well-placed one-liner. Living with opposites is at the heart of life, which is lived “between the hands,” where “On the one hand this, and on the other hand that” holds sway more often than not and we have to “make the peace” by the way we look at/see all things.
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