Emptiness and Form are not separate things joined together; they are inseparably one, the universal opposites completely united. Quantum physics has had a similar realization: the material-like ‘stuff’ of the universe has been recognized to be a condensation of and inseparable from the spacious, underlying formless field out of which it arises. Entertaining both opposites as being true simultaneously─Emptiness IS Form─is an expression that we have become united with(in) ourselves, while at the same time we ourselves have been united by the opposites. When the opposites come together, a profound question arises: is wetiko the deepest evil, or is it a Judas-like entity of utmost necessity, evoking its own evolutionary transmutation, and thereby an expression of the highest good? When the opposites start to reveal themselves as being indistinguishable, wetiko outs itself’ to be a reconciling symbol whose function is transcendence that unites the opposites within us. Seeing the identity of the opposites is to step out of the two-valued logic of the dualistic mind into the four-valued logic of a mind seeing (w)holistically. To recognize the relativity, and hence, identity of the opposites is to realize the Self, which is a union of opposites. One of the deeper meanings of the Buddhist word ‘nirvana’ is to be released and have attained freedom from the opposites. In alchemy, the philosophers’ stone is found and the ‘gold’ is made when the ‘greater coniunctio’ is accomplished via the ‘sacred marriage,’ which is when the opposites are united as one.
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