Duality

There is an apparent duality between "me" and Life, yet logic leads us to the conclusion that this "me" also is an expression of this Life, which proves this duality to be erroneous.

So the current state of mind which is busy with being me and the other which is busy with Life are both part of this Life. When one is busy with "me" then one is busy with a concept created by the mind in order to identify itself. The idea of "me" is limited in time, it has a birth and a death and the mind having identified itself to it and understanding the dire of being finite, tries to find a way to escape death (as well as pain and failure, small deaths as it were).

So at any time when the mind is busy with "me" or with some work it has identified itself to (and must make it become a success), the mind bypasses the present reality, for the end of motion is death to the mind, it is surrendering to its own finite existence.

Yet this finite existence is only a mere concept, just as a leaf only is different from the tree as a concept, whereas the leaf truly is the tree (and where the label "leaf" is unnecessary, so -eventually- is the concept of "tree"). So the mind only attempts to flee what it has created and what it has identified itself to.

It seems that renouncing the idea of "me" and looking at the world around (and again not as what is opposite to "me" but simply as what is) seems to bring balance. But this seems to demand a certain effort, a will power. And is this power of "me"?

Is there free will? Logical deference will lead to the conclusion that there is no thing without a cause, so there is nothing free but the all in itself. This apparent free will should be used to rise above delusion, and when standing above delusion what once was free-will, is simply will, the work of Life.