Dualism is Duodimensional
The run-way lights are seen one after the other before an aeroplane leaves the ground, i.e. while it is on a plane-surface of two dimensions. When it leaves the ground and circles the aerodrome in a third dimension (height) the run-way lights are all seen apparently at once.
Probably all dualisms can be conceived as duodimensional, i.e. as on a plane-surface, more usefully than just as 'opposites' or 'complementaries', their reality being that which they are seen to be from a third right-angle of measurement. Thus Past and Future can be conceived as on a plane-surface, like the lights the aeroplane passes by on the run-way, whereas the Present is that totality wherein Past and Future are seen at once from 'above' or the dimension at right-angles.
The Present is in another direction of measurement from those in which lie the Past and the Future.
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Could it be that a function of our psyche has remained confined to two dimensions, and that our conceptual faculty has not yet invaded that domain and brought to it tridimensional vision?
At any rate the application of a further right-angled direction of measurement to Past and Future, or to any other pair of opposite-complementaries, such as Life-Death, Good-Evil, Reality-Phenomena, should result in unicity of vision - which is perhaps all that we need - if we could see how that is to be done.
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By diverse lines of thought one finds oneself again and again facing the conclusion that full enlightenment, awakening, is in this context simply access to the use of a further direction of measurement of vision.
Note: It has been observed previously, perhaps more than once, that there is no such thing as the 'present'. The phrase 'Past, Present and Future' is a figure of speech. Phenomenally we only know Past and Future - and Future only when it is already Past, the so-called Present being an entirely imaginary line of demarcation no more trace of which exists than there does a line of longitude, latitude or the equator.
The 'Present' is a concept applicable only to the timeless state of the Awakened.
Time
The Past is a memory, i.e. an idea, an object of consciousness. The Future is an image, another idea, another object of consciousness. The Present, which we never know until it is Past, is therefore also an idea, a notion, an object of consciousness. None of them is real, each is imaginary. Time does not exist.
The eternal present, the now-moment, the interval between thoughts, which we normally never perceive, alone is real.
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