If It Has an Opposite Throw It Away

So one Hp I have (and maybe it's too much in the first interaction but let me try anyway) that ‘If it has an opposite throw it away.’ Any position, any notion, any idea, any representation, any story, which you are taking to be true at the moment, if it has an opposite, just let it go. And if the mind comes back strongly and says ‘But, how can I live like this and this is too empty for me, I need to plan, how… this is not natural’ all this kind of stuff then you're welcome to come back again and I’m happy to… (even otherwise you're welcome to come back again). But this is the usual reaction from the mind.

If you have a notion of the Absolute which is an opposite which means that it's nothing or it's not true or something then throw away the notion of the Absolute also. So it may feel for a bit that then there is nothing to stand on, there's no ground to stand on because you can't really find a notion which doesn't have an opposite. But opposites are duality (this is what has trapped us) and opposites is separation. So you will find the unchanging ground of your Reality as you let go of the conceptual notions which can have opposites.

Well it's a circular story in a way, where when you take the idea of duality or separation to be real then there can be this idea of desire to expand ourselves (like I was saying earlier) and then there can be the idea of doer-ship ‘What do I need to do to attain my desire?’ But it can also sometimes start the other way, it can feel like I need to do something and then you feel like ‘What should I do? Oh I should get that.’- so then desire is born, ‘But why do I need that you know… then I can be bigger than what I am today’ - and then the idea of separation or duality can be there. Usually I say ‘duality, desire, doer-ship, and desire is just attachment… but it doesn't have to go in that sequence. So if an attachment has an opposite which is detachment don't worry about it.