Is seperation an illusion?

[u/Tiny-Bookkeeper3982]

I recall the scene in batman, where the joker told batman: "You complete me". An Antagonist and Protagonist that would be obsolete without each other. The non-existence of chaos leads to non-existence of order. An example for duality would be light and darkness, both interconnected by their "opposite" properties. They both need to coexist in order to be valid, without light, darkness wouldn't exist and vice versa. There would be no contrast, nothing that can be measured or compared. Darkness is the absence of light, but without light, we wouldn’t even recognize darkness as a state. Paradoxically they are one and the same thing, since they are two faces of a singular reality. They are sepperated and connected at the same time. Picture the yin and yang.

My question is:

I see duality as an interplay of two opposing forces that want to unify and balance each other out, but they never do. Like a desperate dance that aims for singularity. Could the nature of duality's opposing forces be to search unity by merging together, becoming one? Like man and woman for example. Man's and woman's integrity hinders them from truly becoming one singular thing, since they need to coexist. That would be the reason why we find sex extremely pleasurable, because its the closest thing to unification between two opposites. Plus and minus.

Can anyone resonate with this idea or is that too abstract and inadequate..

[u/Gogol1212]

There is this thing called gay sex, that many people find extremely pleasurable too. Maybe you should try it?

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This meme will now have a different meaning for me 🤣

[u/Designer-Wonder8964]

Man and woman are both humans. They are one thing, they are unified.

Chaos and harmony are states/conditions. They are one thing, they are unified.

Something and nothing are both forms. Together, in unity, they are everything. 

Take a look at the Huainanzi. 

[u/Artashata]

I'm a bit of a naan dualist myself 

[u/TheProRedditSurfer → u/Artashata]

Naan bread goes hard.

[u/Solidjakes]

Yea I mean you are getting at the fact that things require contrast from each other or contrast from something to exist in a distinguishable way. You’ll find symmetry, variance, invariance… dualism runs deep but it doesn’t mean separation is an illusion. You’ll find that we just pick how we want to parse things. There is distinction that is the case, but the distinction we choose to notice may be arbitrary.

[u/GiftedRetawd_3737]

Look at the globe, North and South have distinguishable points. Start at one and continue toward the other, unwavering and eventually you will face the direction you started from without turning around.