“To help you to understand what is duality, take the example of a wave and the ocean. Let us imagine that you are the wave. There is you, the wave, and there is the ocean. You are identified with your identity as a wave -- warm or cold, big or small. The moment you realize that you are not the wave but the ocean, you are no longer in duality.
To work on yourself will consist in letting go of your identifications until your ego dissolves in unity just as the wave dissolves in the ocean. Only then will you transcend duality, only then will we get out of this world alive.”
Duality is at the root of all suffering ~ Ashtavakra Gita, circa Xlll-Vlth century BC
From Get Out of This World Alive by Alain Forget
