The Yin/Yang of Ignorance and Understanding

It was a simple thing really…

For years I have been frustrated with my own ignorance, but as unenlightened as I am, it has always been relatively easy to notice others who understood even less than myself.  It seemed so sad.  So pitiful.  Here am I, reaching for understanding and wisdom, and daily I would encounter numerous persons, from all walks of life, who were seemingly unaware that there was even a need to seek wisdom!

These same people are usually quick to tell you all that is wrong in their life, all the challenges they are facing, and how nothing ever works out the way they want it to….

Then like the dawning of a new day, I began to understand.  Yin/Yang, the duality of the universe, demands the exsistence of such!  Just as there could be no day if there were no night, enlightenment cannot exsist without it’s opposite: ignorance!

When I understood this, I began to be grateful for ignorance, and especially for the journey from ignorance to enlightenment, for is that not really what it’s all about?  The journey, not the destination?

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