"Is there something like duality in all?"

Duality only exists in all when duality exists in you. Really there is no such thing as duality. The mind, shrouded in delusion (the beginningless darkness of Maya), sees and projects duality onto eveyrthing it sees. This idea of duality exists only due to improper understanding.

What appears to be duality is really two sides of one coin. This coin is spinning endlessly. The problem is, we fail to see the "flipping" process, and only see the differences in faces. As long as we remain in the superficial level of faces (form), we may never understand how the two are connected. Imagine someone holding a coin in front of you, displaying one side. Then you happen to blink. In that split second of the blinking, the coin is flipped. Now if you didn't possess certain developed qualities of reason and logic, you might assume that this is a separate coin from what was just being shown. With a lack of discernment, your mind might tell you that there must be two coins... because the face you're seeing now is different from what you were just seeing... but the "reality" is that it is the same coin.

Now obviously most of us have enough intelligence to understand that there is only one coin in that example. But it is symbolic of a greater lack of understanding on a higher level. Many of us lack a certain kind of "spiritual logic" or "spiritual reasoning". Powers of discernment, discrimination, observation. When these qualities remain undeveloped, "wrong thought", or misunderstanding, runs rampant and distorts what we see.

Hold a coin up and examine both sides. Really there is only one coin, one "thing"... it just has many different "shapes" on the outside surface. If you were to melt the coin, all of those surface-shapings would vanish and it would be positively clear that there was never any separation between the two sides.

Consider crafting a cup and a bowl out of the same lump of clay. Both are really the same clay that has been separated and molded into different shapes. But the underlying essence is the same. Someone lacking that understanding may see them as entirely separate. A caveman seeing both may think they are entirely separate things, although upon deeper examination he may come to see that they share the same compositional makeup... the same "essence" that just happened to be shaped into different forms. In this case it is fairly easy to deduce that both are really the "same"...

Now consider steam, water, and ice. All three are the same "thing", only modified into different forms. But if we were shown steam and ice next to eachother, two very different forms, without understanding the underlying "link" (water), then it may be near impossible to see the connection between the two. Seeing the two as separate is only possible when there is a lack of understanding of the actual connection. A lack of understanding that both are just different forms of the same "thing".

In seeing light and darkness, good and bad, male and female, yin and yang, spirit and matter, we are only seeing the extremes of steam and ice without any understanding of the unifying middle state of water.

If you are confused as to where to find the middle state in all of these things, I will place the answer in the palm of your hands:

light - YOU - darkness
good - YOU - bad
male - YOU - female
yin - YOU - yang
spirit - YOU - matter


"Is that one (side) can't exist without the other?"

By the very nature of form, by the very fact that one side exists, there *MUST* exist its opposite side. This is a fundamental "law" that cannot be avoided while remaining in the world of form (and I don't mean only "material" form, but ALL form, even mental or spirit). How can a coin exist without its sides? You can try to shave off one side, but it will be futile, because both sides will continue to exist until you finally shave away the entire coin!

You will never be able to eliminate only "good" or "bad". The very thought is completely absurd. Where one goes, the other must as well. The only possible way of completely eliminating one, is to throw away the entire coin, which by law means that the other side must also be eliminated.


"If there is a creator why is he/she/it hiding"

"He" isn't hiding. It is painfully obvious, sitting right in front of us, all around us and penetrating to the very core of being.


"If the creator/creation is obvious around us at all times why are we not realizing it most of the time?"

We only fail to realize it because of wrong thought about what it is we're really seeing.


--James