THE PENDULUM OF DUALITY
There is a great pendulum that swings In the relative world Between good and bad Right and wrong Like and don’t like Want and don’t want Dark and light Like an endless clock that ticks Backwards and forwards Unstoppable and eternal We are either bound to this incessant movement Or we become somehow free of it Simply through awareness By fully seeing the dualistic nature of existence We transcend it Yet still live in it There is great freedom in this awareness It means we can live in the world fully But, at the same time, know it’s illusory nature To imagine that duality is ultimate truth Is the cause of great suffering The world we live in is ephemeral To deny this in insane To embrace it is liberating This opens the door to true compassion For the impermanence of all things of form.