July 19
Mt 13, 24-30
Perhaps because the mind is, by its own nature, dualistic—seeing reality as a sum of separate objects—humans have a tendency to divide reality into two opposing blocks: I / others, good / evil, truth / lie, life / death… By doing so, we convert polarity—which is complementarity—into an irreducible duality or opposition. From there, confrontation and struggle open up at all levels, sustained by an internal conflict that arises precisely from that mistaken mental reading.
Perhaps the best way to unmask the error is to recognize that the borders delimiting “wheat” from “weeds”—by taking the metaphor proposed by the gospel—are not external but internal. There is no “wheat” on the margin or separate from “weeds,” just as, in our daily experience, there is no goodness without evil, nor truth without lie. There are no “good” and “evil,” which our mind labels according to its own stereotypes. We all debate between good and evil, between truth and lie, between “wheat” and “weeds.”
Every dualistic premise, before or after, reveals its falsehood, as well as its fatal consequences, in the form of judgment, disqualification of the different, confrontation, condemnation, and punishment. If we look closely, we will notice that all these are nothing more than defense mechanisms that only seek to sustain and strengthen the self, erected as judge.
The reason that explains its falsehood is easy to recognize: reality, being polar, is non-dual. It is only one—”there is only Being”—unfolded in infinite forms. The mind is dual because it remains merely on the apparent forms, incapable of perceiving the Ground, unique and shared. By contemplating that Ground, the entire gaze upon the world of forms is radically modified. We see the same as before, but we see it differently, because we are looking from another place.
ENRIQUE MARTÍNEZ LOZANO (Weekly Bulletin)