Exploring Non-Duality During Coronavirus
Coronavirus continues.
While humans emotionally adjust to the new normal, this virus is slowly seeping into our world orders and showing us how little protection they offer to humankind. More so than at any other time in modern history, we are forced to spend time with ourselves and question our stories, habits, and our own reality.
During this time I have found myself desperately grasping for the familiar. In many ways, I am desperate for things to go back to normal. It’s completely futile - that reality is gone. At the same time, I am hopeful for this global pause, and deep down inside feel appreciation for it. I find myself during self-quarantine shifting between these two ideologies, over-analyzing and demanding I choose one or the other. So I’ve been sitting with this conflict and this need to want things to be dual and separate during these Coronavirus times.
As I sit with my overall grief and anxiety for the current condition, I am working through untangling this conditioning contemplating on the question -
What opposites is coronavirus inviting us to hold? ....
It’s showing us you can be independent and want to be cared for.
It’s showing us drugs can awaken or destroy you.
It’s showing us mental strength can’t be developed without breakdowns.
It’s showing us we can be feminists and appreciate men.
It’s showing us we can be progressive and traditional.
It’s showing us we can have a nurturing instinct and not want to have kids.
It’s showing us we can be in awe at the beauty of this planet and feel heartbreak for its cruelty.
It’s showing us transformation cannot exist without death.
It’s showing us we can love someone and never want to speak to them again.
It’s showing us we can be fearful about the fall of our economy and be relieved by it.
It’s showing us we can seek connection in others and prefer to be alone.
It’s showing us we can participate in the convenience of consumerism and be disillusioned with the system.
It’s showing us we can want others to love us and not want monogamy.
It’s showing us we can be compassionate and sometimes wish bad things on others.
It’s showing us the rich cannot exist withoutlow skilledworkers.
It’s showing us confidence cannot exist without feeling unworthy.
It’s showing us you can feel alone in a group of people and feel in good company by yourself.
It’s showing us intimacy cannot exist without emotional unavailability.
It’s showing us we can’t feel worthy without feeling abandoned.
It’s showing us we can dread going to work and feel a sense of purpose.
It’s showing us you can love your country and be critical of it.
It’s showing us there is no self without others.
It’s showing us waves and the ocean are interchangeable.
It’s showing us there is no light without its shadow.
To close, I will leave us with this Rumi quote -
Both light and shadow are the dance of love.
- Rumi
And lastly, I hope during this global pause everyone sees what they need to see.
- Itzett