Very often the factual content of a statement is less important than the effect that this statement has on a listener. For example, two statements can have the same content, but very different effect on a listener, much like two descriptions of an object can have the same reference, but different senses (think Frege)
(Here give some example of something about Dao... how it does not mean anything in particular, yet has an effect on a listener)
If we talk about abortion, we may start thinking if it is acceptable or not. If we are too logical, too analytical, thinking too much, we will then have to decide, whether a fetus is alive or not. The implications seem to be radically different: either abortion is a murder, or it is nothing at all, perfectly acceptable. The thing is that a fetus is BOTH a human being and not a human being. Both things are
true at the same time. This is precisely why we have a conflict. Some people pick one side, some pick the other, out of habit of always picking one side in a duality, in order to keep what seems to them a "coherent" worldview.
Interestingly, both sides of the conflict miss the point. The point is whether it is good to have abortions or not. Instead, both sides choose to focus on whether a fetus is a human or not --- something that is really a very abstract, philosophical idea --- and totally remove themselves from attending to the real matter at hand. Abortion actually kills this little fetus that is in one sense human, in the other sense is not, so it is equally inappropriate to perceive it in our nervous system as either murder, or nothing at all, a completely ordinary thing.
Whenever there are people passionately taking two sides, there is a good chance that we have a similar situation: there is something that is really BOTH true and false, but people are so used to duality that they are picking one side or the other, and reinterpreting the situation as if it were completely black or completely white.
There is some value in making the options black and white, as it allows for the consolidation of effort. It allows for making decisions. If you are careful, you may notice another dualistic misconception: non-duality is not "no duality", it is not the opposite of duality, because non-duality allows no opposites, by definition.
(Here give some example of something about Dao... how it does not mean anything in particular, yet has an effect on a listener)
If we talk about abortion, we may start thinking if it is acceptable or not. If we are too logical, too analytical, thinking too much, we will then have to decide, whether a fetus is alive or not. The implications seem to be radically different: either abortion is a murder, or it is nothing at all, perfectly acceptable. The thing is that a fetus is BOTH a human being and not a human being. Both things are
true at the same time. This is precisely why we have a conflict. Some people pick one side, some pick the other, out of habit of always picking one side in a duality, in order to keep what seems to them a "coherent" worldview.
Interestingly, both sides of the conflict miss the point. The point is whether it is good to have abortions or not. Instead, both sides choose to focus on whether a fetus is a human or not --- something that is really a very abstract, philosophical idea --- and totally remove themselves from attending to the real matter at hand. Abortion actually kills this little fetus that is in one sense human, in the other sense is not, so it is equally inappropriate to perceive it in our nervous system as either murder, or nothing at all, a completely ordinary thing.
Whenever there are people passionately taking two sides, there is a good chance that we have a similar situation: there is something that is really BOTH true and false, but people are so used to duality that they are picking one side or the other, and reinterpreting the situation as if it were completely black or completely white.
There is some value in making the options black and white, as it allows for the consolidation of effort. It allows for making decisions. If you are careful, you may notice another dualistic misconception: non-duality is not "no duality", it is not the opposite of duality, because non-duality allows no opposites, by definition.
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