𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 ~ 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐢 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐛𝐮 𝐑𝐢𝐧𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐞

[Something to reflect upon during this politically charged national US election getting us all wrapped up in making a choice. It's not so much that there's a choice, but the mezmerization, disputation, and polarization that seems to be an inadvertent and unnoticed part of the process.]

The Mistaken Dualistic Mind 

 Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche

All the philosophical theories that exist have been created by the mistaken dualistic minds of human beings. In the realm of philosophy, that which today is considered true, may tomorrow be proved to be false. No one can guarantee a philosophy's validity. Because of this, any intellectual way of seeing whatever is always partial and relative. The fact is that there is no truth to seek or to confirm logically; rather what one needs to do is to discover just how much the mind continually limits itself in a condition of dualism.

Dualism is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political or social conviction may condition us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we are no longer satisfied by a merely intellectual knowledge, and until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.

from the book by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche "Dzogchen: The Self-Perfected State"