PAIRS OF OPPOSITIONS
Eternity | Time |
Heaven | Earth |
Father | Mother |
Male | Female |
Death | Life |
Conscious | Unconscious |
Reality | Dream |
Yab | Yum |
Yang | Yin |
Light | Dark |
Absolute | Manifest |
Bliss | Suffering |
Nirvana | Illusion |
Transcendent | Experiential |
Self | Ego |
Cosmogony | Journey |
Ineffable | Material |
Macrocosm | Microcosm |
ACTIONS: dissolve boundaries; transfigure world; shatter; annihilate; pierce; fall into; balance; transcend; journey
NONDUALITY: hermaphrodism
41/38 The hero as the incarnation of god is himself the navel or axis of the world, the umbilical point through which the energies of eternity break into time.
152/140 What is understood is that time and eternity are two aspects of the same experience-whole, two planes of the same nondual ineffable; i.e., the jewel of eternity is in the lotus of birth and death: om mani padme hum.