Duality and Trinity

Before one can travel the 8 fold path towards Nirvana, one must first accept the 4 noble truths. The first of which, the Dukkha, dictates that we are here to suffer. Try as I may, I could not bring myself to accept this fact when there are so much joy to indulge oneself with in life.

Later, I read a story written to help people understand the concept of heaven and hell. What baffled me about this one is the fact that it is a Christian religious view that fits perfectly with the way I see the world. It is not hard to gather from this statement that I’ve clashed against people with Christian beliefs several times in the past who had a different understandings. Heaven and Hell is a state of mind.

Incidently, “The Alchemist” chained all these together for my further understanding of why it is so. “This is a copy of the perfect world that is to embrace us.” Why a copy? Why not just put us there right away? The Buddha in my mind replied:”We cannot understand perfection, until we’ve experienced imperfection, just as there are no good without evil.”

My second revelation is in the understanding of freedom. While enjoying the material freedom by letting go of all possessions, I always get this feeling that there is something more to it. That the happiness achieved through this act is simply too easy. I wondered often if I only feel free because I wanted to feel free. There is always a second level of meaning that I cannot quite grasp yet because I know that a simple answer to a need always has another deeper teaching.

I found this deeper teaching while reading Warren Buffet’s struggle with the Institutional Imperative; the biggest difficulty in his life that he had to overcome. He suffered from his success at the young age of 26 by being the first to use value investing and by being the best investor in the market… Until everyone caught on to the same technique. He was locked into a trap created by his own success. If you’ve read Dune series, you’ll find some similarities here with Muadib’s Legacy.

Distinctively, I came to realize that there are 3 states to anything I do. A beginning, the journey and the end. Like all the trilogies you see in the movie market now, life works best in 3s. Bruce Lee’s famous quote:“I know no moves, I know moves, I know no moves.” Further echoed this belief. It makes me wonder, is there a 4th that I am disregarding because of this belief? What happens after the end? What happens after the mastery of the act which leads to integration of your being?

My mind seems unable to process this possibility right now.