| json_metadata | "{"app":"Musing","appTags":["Life"],"appCategory":"Life","appTitle":"What is your personal perception about life?","appBody":"<p>First thing about life, that is always visible for anybody to see, is that life is beautiful! Very beautiful. I mean you only have to look around and everywhere you'll find terrific examples of this beauty. The trees the birds the grasses, even the human-beings all around.</p><p>Incidentally *My* principle of life, ever since I grew old enough to be able to exercise my cognitive capabilities to a tangible extent, is always to acknowledge and appreciate the DUALITY of things.</p><p>It may be my obsession with philosophy--especially Eastern philosophy--from a young age, but every time I think of anything now regarding life I always do so with this Duality in mind. And what is this duality, you ask? Yin and Yang. Light and Dark. Stillness and movement. This is the duality of life. The resolution and unity of opposites. This is what makes life beautiful and worth living.</p><p>Sometimes we are quick to deplore these opposites, and sometimes we get frustrated by them, but we forget that the very essence of life is derived from them. Imagine if everything was good and there was no bad, and everywhere was filled with rainbows and unicorns and sunshine and all the rest. It may be beautiful in its own way, but I assure you it will also be boring and uninspiring as hell. </p><p>Or consider a place filled with darkness, utter darkness with no light. Again it may be beautiful in its own way--yes it may--but in the end it will be too gloomy and too overwhening, for us to derive any lasting joy from it.</p><p>But the way life is set up, is the dual way. The way of unity. The way of opposites. Darkness has its time. Light has its time. And It is the way they complement each other that really makes life worth living. You enjoy a little bit of light then a little bit of darkness then a little bit of light. And it is because of this cycle, this resolution, that life is beautiful. It is because of this darkness that we're able to enjoy the light.</p><p>There's a philosophy of Socrates that nothing exists on his on as a whole of itself without needing its opposite to complete it. Socrates argued that there is no \"tallness\", because without understanding what \"shortness\" is tallness doesn't exist. And so it goes for light and dark and up and down and so on.</p><p>And practically we see it in our everyday lives too, and the total summation of our experience on earth; the essence of what is called \"LIFE\" is nothing more than the brilliant interactions of opposite. You were young, now you are old. You were short now you are tall. Without sadness there can't be happiness and without suffering we can't really know the beauty that is there in happiness and living a comfortable life.</p><p>And then comes the greatest opposite of all. Life and Death itself. Without death, without the possibility that one day we will all cease to exist, cease to enjoy the beauty there is around us for free, none of us would really value or understand the true beauty of life.</p><p>So that is my principle. To cherish the presence of this opposite. To understand their beauty and necessity, so that when trials and tribulations come my way I can take them with stoic passion and understanding, and be able to enjoy the positives in life when they finally come my way.</p><p>To understand more about these philosophy I'd recommend getting familiar with Eastern philosophies on the basic level, from the Taoist Tao Te Ching to The Cloud of Unknowing, the writings of Sankara, Eckart, the Upanishads and so on. You may also consider The Perennial Philosphy by Aldous Huxley.</p><p>Cheers and have a nice day.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fkn942clx","appParentAuthor":"mrspablo","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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