Interesting conversation, Andrea. But what I found fascinating is when you mentioned that you lived in Mongolia for a while. I am a Canadian retiree currently living in Thailand. I have taught English here. I have also lived in China, Taiwan, Cambodia, and South Korea for a total of 25 years. At times it can be quite a challenge, but it’s great to learn about different countries and cultures. Did you find living in Mongolia challenging? I hope you enjoyed it and learned a lot from your experience there.
what a wonderful message @steveschertzer5088 thanks so much. Mongolia changed my life and it was definitely challenging. I learned so much. And I also received my dog Holly there as a gift. She appears every now and then in the shows as well. Enjoy Thailand! And thanks for being here.
I love this conversation, Andrea! It’s fascinating how you explore polarity and find common ground amidst seeming opposites. This really resonates with me-when you look with clarity, you can see how polarities, like yin and yang, flow and intertwine, with the line between them often blurred. In Buddhism, we use a dialectical approach to engage with contradiction, dissolving dualities to uncover deeper interconnectedness.
@@philosophybabble wonderful to receive this, thank you! This is something I think of often because I resonate strongly with the Buddhist and also Taoist approaches relative to what you write above and yet I am also discussing "beyond dichotomy" here which somehow means we let the seeming polarities or opposites have the space to be distinct and yet also understand them as impossible to separate. This conversation with Jeremy Lent was about this too in parts ua-cam.com/video/NuUpmvTZ6qk/v-deo.html
@@waymaking23 my dear friend, as I know this is a matter of interest to you, and I as well, I will rephrase my comment, for additional clarity: The duality of polarity is non-binary. While there are opposites and extremes of opposites within the paradox of polarity, they exist only within the paradigm of continuum, and are "beyond dichotomy" as such. At the heart of this fundamental investigation, we may find the questions around "what is Life" and "what is Mind (consciousness)"?? It is only when we dissolve linear causality that we arrive at wholesome understanding. Primary to the dynamics of action, there are the fundamental opposites of explosion (m) and implosion (f), while still, in the world of the whole, there is only one, ever unfolding and infolding continuously moving spiral. Life
@@tinfoilhatscholar thank you for this...upon first reading, it feels like the movement we were trying to describe in this conversation but that cannot be described
Extremes and polarities as psychopomps of virtue. ❤
oh my thank you for that word, psychopomps
Interesting conversation, Andrea. But what I found fascinating is when you mentioned that you lived in Mongolia for a while. I am a Canadian retiree currently living in Thailand. I have taught English here. I have also lived in China, Taiwan, Cambodia, and South Korea for a total of 25 years. At times it can be quite a challenge, but it’s great to learn about different countries and cultures. Did you find living in Mongolia challenging? I hope you enjoyed it and learned a lot from your experience there.
what a wonderful message @steveschertzer5088 thanks so much. Mongolia changed my life and it was definitely challenging. I learned so much. And I also received my dog Holly there as a gift. She appears every now and then in the shows as well. Enjoy Thailand! And thanks for being here.
I think John Ralston Saul argues in his, "reflections of a siamese twin," that the power of polarity has made Canada what it is.
I would like to know more about this. Thanks for mentioning.
hi♡ if you want to skip ideas intro and go to the conversation intro u can start at 8:04
I love this conversation, Andrea! It’s fascinating how you explore polarity and find common ground amidst seeming opposites. This really resonates with me-when you look with clarity, you can see how polarities, like yin and yang, flow and intertwine, with the line between them often blurred. In Buddhism, we use a dialectical approach to engage with contradiction, dissolving dualities to uncover deeper interconnectedness.
@@philosophybabble wonderful to receive this, thank you! This is something I think of often because I resonate strongly with the Buddhist and also Taoist approaches relative to what you write above and yet I am also discussing "beyond dichotomy" here which somehow means we let the seeming polarities or opposites have the space to be distinct and yet also understand them as impossible to separate. This conversation with Jeremy Lent was about this too in parts ua-cam.com/video/NuUpmvTZ6qk/v-deo.html
Non binary while also embracing polarity. Embracing the paradox is an immersion into the nature of life itself;)
Well said as usual @tinfoilhatscholar Nice to see you here again
@@waymaking23 my dear friend, as I know this is a matter of interest to you, and I as well, I will rephrase my comment, for additional clarity:
The duality of polarity is non-binary. While there are opposites and extremes of opposites within the paradox of polarity, they exist only within the paradigm of continuum, and are "beyond dichotomy" as such. At the heart of this fundamental investigation, we may find the questions around "what is Life" and "what is Mind (consciousness)"?? It is only when we dissolve linear causality that we arrive at wholesome understanding. Primary to the dynamics of action, there are the fundamental opposites of explosion (m) and implosion (f), while still, in the world of the whole, there is only one, ever unfolding and infolding continuously moving spiral. Life
@@tinfoilhatscholar thank you for this...upon first reading, it feels like the movement we were trying to describe in this conversation but that cannot be described