The real being stands behind the duality
Question: How does one deal with orthodoxy, stupidity and foolishness? How does one deal with orthodox parents and spouses?
The foolish will always hunt the wise. If the wise recede to the forest, the foolish will condemn them for that. If the wise stay and fight, they shall be condemned for that. Condemnation is certain. The dead and the alive cannot be together. The dead is too afraid of the living.
The blind and the seeing are not equal and because the blind cannot see, they will strike down everything, be it ugly or beautiful.
One cannot help but confront. An honest man, a free man can only be a renegade in this world.
Answer: You are very right about this non-co-existence of the false and the truth.
Let me just add that truth and falseness, blind and seeing, dead and alive, wise and foolish are not categories of human beings. These are categories of the mental states. In other words, the person is not wise, and the person is not a fool either. Both these are mere ego-states, and the real being stands behind both these states.
There are in fact only two categories: the waking and the sleeping. The sleeping are seeing dreams of a thousand kinds. These dreams cant be called the categories of the sleeping. Will you classify sleeping people by the content of their dreams? Will we abhor actors because of the role they are playing, even if they have forgotten that they are not their role?
So, even as one resists blindness, foolishness and orthodoxy with all his might, it would be pertinent to remember that the person does not deserve hatred. He is merely sleeping. Fight his orthodoxy and foolishness with all you have, but do not fight his being.
– Based on my interactions on various e-media.
Dated: 21st February,’12
