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Originally Posted by reverie
The duality in Buddhism
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I'm glad that you feel connected to all these paths.
I just wanted to present my understanding that Duality is Buddhism refers to the
Illusion of Duality. Meaning that Non-Duality is the concept in Right Perception. Duality being the 'unfavourable' perception, here.
It's alligned with the teaching on No-Self or Anatman. No-Self in Buddhism is the Non-Duality of Subject and Object, which is very explicitly stated by the Buddha in verses such as
“In seeing, there is just seeing. No seer and nothing seen. In hearing, there is just hearing. No hearer and nothing heard.”
Although it worth stating that Non Duality (Ultimate Reality) and honouring the experience of Duality (w/ Compassion) are both Skillfull means, for using cold words to talk about and help people understand Enlightenment of a Being. But are impermanent as well, which means that clinging to understanding via words, will also lead to suffering, via my understanding of the Second Noble Truth, explaining where suffering arises from.
I'd be interested to know if this coinsides with what you where saying, because with alot of Buddhist writing it can tend to be pretty heady with word plays. I'm not try to tell you that you're wrong. I've studied the Dharma a long time and was stired when I saw Duality, looking like a favourable Perception.
In Loving Kindness,
SageTree