It feels as though my life is bound.
One of the biggest bondage is relationship. Especially family relations.
Although it can be a source of comfort, it can also be a source of pain.
There is a strong cord that ties me to my parents.
But then, it seems that its our particular flavor of bondage that gives each of us our individual meanings of life.
And yet...
One possible way of envisioning the human passage is the following. We think of ourselves as originally emerging from the unknown, from darkness, nothingness or non-existence into the light of consciousness. But as consciousness develops we discover the increasing ability to see in the dark, see into the nothingness or mystery within ourselves and eventually realize that this darkness and nothingness is the divine from which we emerged and with which we are one. Thus we discover that our original darkness IS true light. Midway in this passage, divine light (darkness or unknowing) and the light of consciousness are in balance, with neither outshining the other. But as we move beyond this mid-point, divine light begins to outshine the light of consciousness until, in the end, the light of consciousness goes out and only divine light remains. From this vantage point we look back on the passage and see that although consciousness was the veil that dimmed the light, this dimming was necessary in order to make the human dimension possible. But if consciousness makes human existence possible, it is also not separate from the divine, nor does it completely hide it; on the contrary, consciousness or self is man’s faculty or medium for experiencing the divine — so long as it remains, that is [this is key]. Our passage through consciousness is the gradual return to the divine; we leave the divine unknowingly and in darkness, but we return knowingly and in light.
You can only desire something.
You cannot desire nothing
You can desire to extend being.
Beingness can be desired.
Non being cannot be desired.
There is no existence without non-existence.
Non-existence allows existence to be.
If there were no non-existence, any particular thing that arose would be permanent.
Without non-existence, change would be impossible.
Anything that comes into existence is found to go out of existence or change into something else.
It is non-existence that allows this to happen.
For without non-existence there would be simply a concrete fixed existent reality that would never change.
Existence arises from non-existence and returns back into non-existence.
A perfectly symmetric system does not allow for the arising of phenomena.
In order for phenomena to arise, the symmetry has to be broken.
