NOTES
The circle represents the confines of a system in which duality operates. In our case, this is the field of Humanity.
A & B
represent any and all conflicting opposites. The list is endless.
AB passes
through the centre of the circle at R. It indicates the maximum polarity
possible for AB within the circle. This provides the maximum distance between the
contestants A and B. The arrows on AB
and AC indicate the direction of flow. The arrows on CR, one below C pointing
towards R and one above R pointing towards C also indicate the direction of
flow.
On AR, to the
right of A, there are two arrow points facing each other thus: > <. On RB, to the right of R, there are similar
arrows. These arrows represent the confrontation points which are continuously
appearing anywhere and everywhere throughout the plane of conflict which is the
line AB. These confrontations are interminable.
If A were ever
to succeed in defeating and occupying B, B would immediately reappear in
another guise at A and the confrontation would resume. History illustrates this
very clearly.
C represents
the upstream point at which humans are reconciled by abandoning A and
B. It is both an exit and an entry point.
The dotted
line through C and parallel to AB represents the plane of reality occupied by
Humans who are, just that, Humans. They have abandoned the
identifications which create the AB conflicts or have never descended into that
lower world in the first place.
R represents
the linear point, within the horizontal field of conflict, where, by
abandoning A and B, reconciliation is also achievable. This is unlikely,
however, because of the momentum accumulated by the Pendulum of Conflict in its
ongoing advances and retreats. This
momentum reinforces the differentiations of A and B.
C = R.
The diagram is
static. In reality everything is dynamic; every atom, every cell, every solar
system.
For the sake
of simplicity, the diagram is two dimensional and shows one AB line. Actually,
there are an unlimited number of AB lines spreading out in all directions from
R to the circumference, just as there are an unlimited number of issues on
which humans are divided and are in unrelenting conflict with each other.
Each and every
one of these issues on which humans are in conflict with each other has the
same Reconciliation Point; the complete surrender of identification with the
points A and B. This is replaced by
direct seeing the way things actually are in the present moment.
Reconciliation
is rediscovery in the living present of sameness – our real and eternal
Identity. This replaces identification with “differentness” which occurs when
understanding is based on memory of the past and the points of view it
conditions. These points of view include corresponding projections into an
imagined future.
Furthermore,
the two dimensional diagram represents a three dimensional sphere, the sphere
of human existence, within which an infinite number of AB lines radiate
outwards from a single immaterial point. On the material plane, this includes the
planet on which our dramas are played out.
Because of the
enormous powers of destruction which human beings have obtained, our continuing
failure to solve our ongoing and worsening AB conflicts now endangers the Earth
itself.
The apparent
vacuum within the circle itself is actually full of events, incidents,
hostilities, revenge, justifications, memories, points of view, understandings
and misunderstandings. All are movements of the conditioned mind.
Full and
expanding.
It is a rich
compost in which A and B continually seek and find the food to support and
nourish their differences rather than resolve their conflicts. It is like a
thistle growing next to a lettuce. Each takes from the same soil what its roots
need to keep thistles quite different from lettuces.
