| From Ilchi Lee’s book The Twelve Enlightenments
Despite the countless changes in external appearances and actors and players, our human civilization, this version anyway, has had a consistent philosophical base in duality. You and I, Yin and Yang, This and That, White and Black, Good and Evil, God and Devil… so on. This duality has been so ingrained as to be instinctive, the glasses through which we understood and sought to understand everything in the universe. Competition and domination, the basic driving force in our society is an offspring of duality. What, then, is the alternative to duality? What can fill the narrow and yet impossible gulf between God and Satan? What is the “middle” that we have forgotten and need to recover? The answer is life, energy (Ki), and Human. Especially, a new understanding of the human, the instigator and protagonist of creation, is the key to overcoming the inherent flaw of duality. |