Inspired by: Third P
Third P posted a question about how it would be possible to explore concepts framed by duality, that are beyond the limits of duality.
Duality in itself is a word, and as a result somewhat vague as are all words. Context helps to define this word, so depending upon the subject matter duality has different meanings.
We tend to categorize and pidgeon hole concepts, statements, relationships, .... Most people find difficulty in seeing a fluid which flows, leaks, and courses through our life's experiences. To describe something is most easily done by comparison. Yet experience is the result of a large set of circumstances, of which little is verbalized.
Duality is a concept created by mankind to simplify complex relationships. Though useful, it is an overused tool.
Someone who steals is not necessarily an overall bad person; they may be doing the best that they can to provide for others under their care.
Someone who writes poorly is not necessarily unintelligent nor uninlightened; there are many physicians who write poorly.
If you want to use dualistic concepts to describe things outside of duality, this is easy! Simply realize that dualistic relationships only exist within a very confined set of circumstances. Broaden the persepective, and duality falls apart. Use the dualistic statements as starting points to discover the world that revolves around it.
Good versus Evil is a fairly useless dichotomy. Only a small population of anything, ever exists at an extreme. While Good and Evil are both often dependent upon whom is the victor, the oppressed, or the manipulated. Similarly, all other dualities have similar problems in their use.
Words are a very limited form of communicating relationships because words are sequential, while relationships are parrallel in nature. We use duality because it fits nicely into the structure of words and phrases.
However, in the real world of parallel relationships, duality is seldom representative of real world relationships; and is only useful for framing (a reduced subset of the problem) a perspective.
