I have a theory, it is based on the principles of the Yin and Yang.
Through many years of spiritual work, I have been asked, or told, that people do not wish to feel certain ways, or believe that they shouldn’t have to go through certain things. In this, the emotions they are feeling or facing up to, they are engaging in a part of the delicate balance of human experience.
In the creation of humans, emotions were selected for us to experience, and each one is balanced by an opposite. For example, it has been expressed to me that humans shouldn’t feel anger. When looking at it, the world would probably be a better place without anger, but when we eliminate one emotion,we must also eliminate its opposite. In this example, without anger, we cannot feel happiness. When happiness is removed, we cannot feel sadness, and when it is removed, we cannot feel excitement, and without excitement we cannot feel depression, and on the cycle goes. Every emotion has more than one opposite, and when one opposite is removed, the other is removed, and all its counterparts are removed and so on. In this, as well as removing emoitions, we remove our freewill, because without certain emotions, we cannot have free will.
This chain reaction can exist on more than just the emotional level, as stated. It can exist on a level of taking actions. We all disagree with war, and that the terror and destruction that it causes and the hatred that is a result are all negative things, but if we cannot have grand scale war, or the potential to go to a grand scale war, we cannot have peace on a grand scale. There would be no uniting of nations, no peace treatys between countries and there would be even less chance of us getting along.
Even on a minor level does this intricate system exist. We all hate/dislike/disapprove of something, but when that something is removed completely, its existance, and its counterparts, also fail to have any meaning. An issue close to me is discrimination. Hatred for homosexuals, different races, etc, comes from a need for balance. If no one hates one of these things, then no one can like them either, because the balance is thrown out and we are not free to choose. Our disliking comes from something, be it an experience, a stereotype forced or simply a lack of understanding or even fear. but even in having a good experience, destroying stereotypes, making up our own minds or understanding and accepting do we see this balance in play.
Exercise
In your own mind, choose four things sabout the world. These can be types of people, recreational events, things, emotions, or anything.
*One should be something you love more than anything (karaoke)
*One thing should be something you hate more than anything (descrimination)
*One should be something you don’t dislike, but don’t really go for either (sports)
*The last should be something you dont enjoy, but wouldn’t deny anyone else (drug use)
In these four things think of their opposites, or something that is simply opposing.
Karaoke – Reading
Descrimination – Acceptance
Sports – Lethargy
Drug Use – Detox Program
Now, in your minjd, as best as you can, imagine one of these things being removed from the world. It’s not too hard, is it?
Now remove the other thing with it, and see what your mind comes to then. In some examples, the world might seem a better place without either. But in other causes, it can make the world a darker and uglier place. Or, in some cases, it could set human history back hundreds, or thousands of years.
Eg: My last options were Drug Use and Detoxification Programs. One is for your health and one is destructive to your health. One is inclined to heal while the other does dmage. On the other hand, one is more fun than the other and one is more cost effective than the other.
Yes, it is easy to see a world without drug use, but its opposite, Detoxification, would be removed as well. So while in this circumstance there is no way to damage your body, there is no way to heal it either. On expansion, there is no way for disease to spread as we know drug use can cause, but there is no way to cure other diseases at the same time. There is no temptation in the drug use, but there is no healthier alternative to take either. This cycle thrown out, we would be a very sick and dying race. The cycle has suddenly expanded to a level beyond repair or comprehension.
What I have come to accept, though I sometimes find it difficult, is that there is one thing because there is another to counter-act it. Like the many examples given above, the world moves on a level of giving two options, both unique and different with both capable of making or breaking a life.
Organised religion – Atheist
Drug Use - Detoxifrication
Violence – Peace
Temptation – Resistance
Acceptance – Denial
Law – Crime
Life – Death
With each opposite is a balance and a system that creates an endless list of choices for what we want to do with our lives. This grand, delicate and complicated system was created for us to live a life that is both confused and clarified, understandable yet disoriented, simple yet difficult.
The human experience will face all of these things as time goes by, and as some things are removed, more will be there to take their place. In a poor but simple example, is disease. The world met with the Black Plauge many years ago, and after a while, a cure was found. As it was removed, the prelude to HIV AID’s was born (indirectly) and as it grew and took shape over many years, we now have a new deadly virus to deal with and lives to lose between then, now and a cure. When HIV AIDs is cured, and the immunities our bodies need to fight it are spread through the worlds DNA, another disease will be born somewhere quietly, and slowly grow into something as fierce, deadly and destructive to human life. But at the same time that this happens, we are given the protections we need to fight against other diseases, other illnesses and the science needed to slowly but surely find a cure. In this grand balance, we have choices to make and options to consider.
In the closing notes to this theory, there is simply one thing I can offer to all my clients, all my friends and all those who feel that life is difficult, and it is that life is difficult for a reason. We face these choices and challenges because there is an opposite to achieve or deny, depending on the circumstances. If we face drug abuse, there is a fight to give it up and cure ourselves. If we face descrimination, or are descriminators, there is a challenge to find acceptence of people and their opinions, beliefs, life choices and ways of life. And as the cycle goes on and on througout the timespan of humanity and beyond, we will be faced with several challenges, be it physical, emotional, mental, creative, spiritual, and so on. What we need to see is the destination that is the end of the chalenge. The opposite that is the alternative, and whether we are going towards or moving away from it, which is the better choice and which will make us a better person for it. I pray for all of you that you find the answers you seek to the challenges of your life.
I have a theory, it is based on the principles of the Yin and Yang.
