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The Yang Yin Principle of the St Jolly Olfing

We tend in all our metaphors to think of life as an encounter between the knowing human being, the knowing mind and the world. But knowledge is much more like the expansion of a flower from the stem and the bud where the opposite points are the knower and the known. And neither one of us exists without the other. This is Yang, Yang, the white, and Yin, the dark. The saying goes in both Taoism and Buddhism, difference is identity. Identity is difference. I hear, this is my eye, and you hear with your eye, I'm trying to get to the middle of you, you're trying to get back to me."

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