THE MIDDLE WAY
Finding and living The Middle Way. Without bad there is no good, and the further we move toward either, we find that sooner or later we can only go in the other direction. The harder we try to justify our good the more we suffer when we move toward bad, and when we are as bad as we thought we could ever be the only thing we can do is move toward good. The existence of duality is good and bad, right and wrong, or birth and death. Duality stops and we find peace and glimpses of enlightenment, when we can find balance, the middle way or non-duality. For instance, Divorce is what it is. There is nothing good or bad about it, there were as many good times as there were bad. If the focus is on the good times divorce would be bad, and if the focus is on the bad times it would be good. It only has to be what it is, we only have to do what we have to do, and to find peace we need to find somewhere between good and bad. Finding the right place in the middle, in our minds where we find peace where there is non-duality. That is the right way to live the time between birth and death the middle way we call life. Scott Henning
Balance in the Masculine and Feminine
When we understand that we are both human and spirit coming from father and mother as children and we will always be the children of the mother earth and the father of all. Being of both masculine and feminine we can find balance between the the two and use them to help us relate in the world and with others. We learn that God is of the masculine and the Earth the mother is of the feminine. Finding balance in being of both s not about being equal in each. Men and women are not equal as a whole and are quite different in so many ways. The balance is found by relating to and embracing the other sex by understanding and adopting traits that help us relate with each other and make us whole.
“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.” Seneca –
DUALITY
Good- Bad, Right- Wrong, Black- White. What do they all have in common? They are opposites you might say, opposing forces, two sides of a story or maybe thy are what lies on each side or the door or on other sides of the fence. Knowing that the world is filled with these kind of complete opposites we tend to try to find a way to be one or the other. While we understand the difference between two differences we are better off finding a place where we embrace and understand the neither exists without the other. In doing this we can become neutral in the battles that ensue and find peace in the balance of two opposites. This is a place that makes us not just have a place to stand in the opposites but leads us to solutions to find a compromise in the two. Understand that the TRUTH lies in the middle and while we are able to find the choice that best serves ourselves and the world as a whole, we are less likely to fight to get the best outcome in any situation. Give and take, negotiation and winning a battle is the answer to winning the war. To understand that a position is dependent on an opposing position bring us closer to a truth that is in line with the truth of how things are meant to be. Take a minute and look at the different sides of any situation and work to a place in the middle to find peace. The truth comes when we let the little things add up to the winning of the war, an illusion that is created in the need to be right. The middle way is the answer to releasing the need to win now or to not bend like the growing branch of a tree. When we are rigid and do not bend we break and that may bring us to a point where we cannot repair damage done. Duality is and has always been, finding a place in the middle is the position that is in line with the universe and with all that is.
LET GO
We should not try too hard to find the answers that guide us in harmony with all that is right and good. The things that are happening around us we are creating and are building on past actions. Acceptance of things as they are when we know they could be better is found with faith that following our intuition and feelings of the next right thing to do and by surrendering to this moment for what it is and being responsible for our feelings for what they are.