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The difference bewteen a conflict and a polarity is simply--when you think about opposite things, we sometimes use the expression, 'These two things are the poles apart.' You say, for example, about someone with whom you totally disagree, 'I am the poles apart from this person.' But your very saying that gives the show away. Poles. Poles are the opposite ends of one magnet. And if you take a magnet, say you have a magnetized bar, there's a north pole and a south pole. Okay, chop off the south pole, move it away. The piece you've got left creates a new south pole. You never get rid of the south pole. So the point about a magnet is, things may be the poles apart, but they go together. You can't have the one without the other. We are imagining a diagram of the universe in which the idea of polarity is the opposite ends of the diameter, north and south, you see? That's the basic idea of polarity, but what we're trying to imagine is the encounter of forces that come from absolutely opposed realms, that have nothing in common. When we say of two personality types that they're the poles apart. We are trying to think eccentrically, instead of concentrically. And so in this way, we haven't realized that life and death, black and white, good and evil, being and non-being, come from the same center. - Alan Watts

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. And therefore, if you meditate for an ulterior motive — that is to say, to improve your mind, to improve your character, to be more efficient in life — you’ve got your eye on the future and you are not meditating!

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The world is won by those who let it go.

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Sinologist Herrlee Creel considers wu wei, as found in the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi, to denote two different things.

An “attitude of genuine non-action, motivated by a lack of desire to participate in human affairs” and

A “technique by means which the one who practices it may gain enhanced control of human affairs”.

The first is quite in line with the contemplative Taoism of the Zhuangzi. Described as a source of serenity in Taoist thought, only rarely do Taoist texts suggest that ordinary people could gain political power through wu wei. The Zhuangzi does not seem to indicate a definitive philosophical idea, simply that the sage “does not occupy himself with the affairs of the world”.

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That what I am involves what you are. I don’t know who I am unless I know who you are and you don’t know who you are unless you know who I am. There was a wise rabbi who once said ‘If I am I because you are you and you are you because I am I then I am not I and you are not you.’ In other words we are not separate. We define each other, we’re all backs and fronts to each other. … We and our environment, and all of us and each other are interdependent systems. We know who we are in terms of other people. … We are, I think, quite urgently in need of coming to feel that we are the eternal universe each one of us.“ ~ Alan Watts