Beware - the duality trap

The root cause of all our problems is that we, the human race, have succumbed throughout history to a conditioning of the like-dislike dichotomy. This has led the human mind to be always in conflict with itself in striving ever to be in a certain mode – the mode of, shall we say, comfort. Anything that causes us discomfort in any way we fight against. Such divisiveness has become a human trait incorporated in our very genes. The entire divide that causes all men to suffer from schizophrenia to some degree or other has had, ironically, a solution available with man right from the ancient days – except that only the most perceptive of men and women alone accessed and profited from this ancient wisdom, well known as the advaita vision. Advaita means non-duality and therefore it can be said that man’s problem is the problem of duality.