Duality arises from unity; but do not be attached to this unity."It is the One that unites the Two; without It, the Buddha-Nature, the Void, the Mind, this and that yearn after the Ground of Existence. Things and circumstances are in themselves neutral, not meaningless, but not coloured intrinsically with the 'opinions' we have of them.
When we clap our hands,
The maid serves tea,
Birds fly up,
Fish draw near,--
At the pond in Sarusawa.
"The clapping of the hands is it. The sound as interpreted by the maid-servant by the bird, by the fish, is only half of it. But without halves there is no whole, just as without a whole there are no halves.
"As we endeavour to release ourselves from phenomena (the relative world) we become attached to something even more non-existent, the thing itself, the noumenon."
[Editor's Note: noumenon n. - the intellectual conception of a thing as it is in itself, not as it is known through perception]
~~ R. H. Blyth