What God Hath Put Together
Jesus said “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder”. This is commonly cited as a biblical injunction against divorce the argument being that marriage is a Holy union between a man and a woman once performed no man-made law can undo it. Divorce is a traumatic experience, to be avoided if at all possible. However, it was not divorce that Jesus was referring to; it was the unity of the masculine and feminine elements within the individual. In the symbol for Yin and Yang there is a drop of the Yin within the Yang and the Yang within the Yin. Within each man there is an element of the feminine and within each woman there is a masculine element. Enlightenment (when light is thrown on problems) involves the coming to an understanding of these elements. When this understanding has been achieved it cannot be undone. What has evolved can’t be reversed.
An example of the Yin in the Yang is when there is a moment of silence in a noisy
environment, for instance a sudden lull of the hubbub in a noisy pub. I've mentioned
before that one of the most difficult things to come to terms with is when to
be active and when to be passive – when to ‘do’ and when to ‘be’. This is the
active and passive (male and female) elements.
I've mentioned many times the deficiencies in the thinking process of Sceptics.
Often, this is a result of preconceived intellectual assumptions. New information
is matched against an existing way of viewing the world and is assessed on whether
it agrees with the preconceived notions or not. It’s like holding a rule up to
everything to measure whether it fits in or not. This tendency is apparent when
people attempt to work out how something works. For example, imagine you get some
components that you know should be able to be assembled to be a piece of furniture,
but you don't have instructions. You have an idea of what the finished article
should look like but you can’t work out how the pieces fit together. After trying
for some time you give up, and then it comes to you. It’s often the case that
giving up on something, whether it be assembling components or looking for a job,
is the impetus to get a solution. This is because when you ‘give up’ you move
from the active (Yang, masculine) mode to the passive (Yin, feminine) mode. You
go from ‘doing’ to ‘being’, and at that point you are open to inspiration. Inspiration
is the little brother to enlightenment.
Too often people keep doing when they should be passive and bang their head against a brick wall. Others stay passive and wait for the world to come to them when they should be active.
