 Tutorial for August 2022 A Time of Polarization Most people would agree that it is a time of polarization. The apparent emphasis is the contrast between things, with differences that are extreme, and tensions surrounding these differences are great. It may feel like these differences cannot be reconciled and this may generate feelings of despair and disappointment as well as feelings of overwhelming loss or failure. In times of polarization, you may feel like you have to choose one side or the other. You may believe one side will win and necessarily the other side will lose. The notion that you have to choose becomes loaded with projections of fears and judgments of both personal opinions and cultural sentiments. Personal opinions become tightly held and can become extreme. Tension escalates and absolutism dissolves whatever natural or genuine equanimity may have been present. The polarizing thoughts and expressions distort the sense of “other” in an attempt to find relief from the discomfort of the tension. Polarization is different than the acknowledgement of the nature of duality as a predicament of human existence. There is a great deal more tension and distance in the extreme nature of polarization. The tension is what exacerbates the feelings of despair, doom and gloom. While the human sense of self is comfortable with duality, the high stakes tension and extremism of polarity seems to have no antidote. You can eliminate the tension to moderate what is inherent in polarity, but that does not end the polarity. Solutions have to come from something which has never arisen previously, never before been known. Out of the chaos of the intensity of the polarization will arise a glimpse into the pure "View", and with that, pure creation of life. One Life. Creation is the only resolution to polarity. It is in the midst of the high stakes of polarity that creation can and must arise. It is fruitless to seek One Life or seek the resolution of duality. You cannot resolve the aspects of polarization either. You will get stuck in the grasping for something and the avoiding of something else, creating a chasm, a dividing line that tends to intensify or maximize the division. One Life, indivisible as it is, does not exist in the chasm between poles, it is the chasm and the poles simultaneously. When known as such, the Great Perfection of All That Is becomes livable and its great brilliance shines through everything. The great or primordial Polarity is that of the cosmos and chaos. The cosmos is where the implicate order holds everything together and the chaos is where the order falls apart. The light that shines through the “chaosmos” is the light of The Great Perfection, considered the most profound and direct path to enlightenment. The instructions associated with this path present a radically direct approach that cuts through confusion and lays bare the mind's true nature of luminous purity. Chaos must be lived through and mitigated with practices of meditation and practices of loving kindness. Only then can one imagine the nature of One Life that is attempting to emerge. And One Life Awareness is the only viable resolution to polarization. Whenever you are encountering polarization in the world, you are encountering inner polarization. Your inner polarized notions intensify the outer expression of polarization, and the outer polarization intensifies the inner polarization. Let One Life Awareness flow through you and the recognition of All That Is as without polarization will emerge as the new creation of the world in that moment. It is all there is, right here and right now, so Let it Be.
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