How would we know what happiness is if we would’ve never experienced sadness?
How would we know, how it feels to be connected to others if we would’ve never experienced loneliness?
If everyone would win all the time, doesn’t that mean that nobody win ever?
There is some sloppily veiled absurdity in our effort that we are trying to run away blindly from our negative feelings/experiences, straight to the direction where we think we can find positive feelings/experiences.
Weird enough, I find this wave-nature of experience deeply reassuring.
Because in a systematic point of view, in a less involved, entangled perspective these two polarities would loose their meaning without each other. One cannot be without the other.
Somewhere, in this broader perspective positive feelings/experiences are not having more right to exist compared to negative feelings/experiences.
And from this broader perspective we have the chance to take a glimpse of the neutrality beyond these two polarities.
Both sides need each other in order to exist by differing from each other.
But where is the neutrality beyond this dualism?
A painting cannot exist without the blank canvas behind it. The paint find its meaning by differing from that white canvas and so it becomes a painting.
The neutrality I’m talking about is not in the middle between the two sides.
Neutrality is the space itself, where this duality is able to show itself and finding its meaning.
In our human experience this space is consciousness itself.
Turn around, and look to the other direction. From the duality of positive-negative to the space where it shows up.
Turn from the content towards the context where that content appears in.
Let me say this in a kindergarden-way too: look within.
That neutral space is you.
And if just once, just for a split of a second you are able to catch a glimpse of it…
Oh well, oh well…
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Andrea Jacso 