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   Mike to All   
   DOES EVIL EXIST HEAVEN ????   
   16 Jan 26 09:17:07   
   
   From: theirony2013@gmail.com   
      
      
      
   Duality is not a flaw or limited to the world.   
   It is required for experience itself. To know or   
   recognize anything, there must be some form of   
   disagreement or contrast. Without it, there is no   
   awareness — only undifferentiated being.   
      
   Even in a perfect or “heavenly” state, awareness   
   requires disagreement. One might ask: why must   
   duality exist even in heaven? The answer is simple.   
   To know good, there must be an implicit counter-   
   part — not-good, neutral, or tension. Without this,   
   good cannot be recognized, joy cannot be distin-   
   guished from neutral, and bliss is meaningless.   
      
   Light and shadow, motion and stillness, self and   
   other can exist in tension.   
      
   Heaven, if it allows awareness, must contain some   
   form of disagreement; otherwise there is nothing   
   to experience or notice.   
      
   Absolute unity may exist as pure being. But once   
   awareness arises, minimal disagreement appears:   
   observer versus observed, knower versus known.   
   This is not a flaw; it is the condition for conscious-   
   ness itself.   
      
   Disagreement cannot be removed without ending   
   experience. Even heaven, to be experienced, must   
   contain it — as the very condition for meaning,   
   awareness, and recognition.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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