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difference, difference and more, difference. When we see the unexpressed modes then we can see only the similarity, similarity, and more similarity.
Our living world has clarity. Within it we see only the differences: the plant world, the organisms with single sense organs, those with two sense organs, those with three sense organs, with four, five sense organs, animals, man and so on. If we however begin to see the unexpressed modes then all these divisions will go awry, will not exist. All that will remain will be the consciousness. It is equal in all living beings, be it a plant, an insect, man or animal. Only the consciousness remains, the consciousness. All other distinctions fall off. Only one remains and that is the consciousness. Difference and similarity, opposition and harmony, these are all divisions based on the mode of the object. In an object both contrary attributes co-exist. Opposition and harmony, existence and non-existence, reality and unreality, eternal and temporary... these pairs coexist. The difference is in the modes of the object and in our vision. We see the objects in the gross form and base our divisions thereof. It is worth reiterating that all our decisions, beliefs, thinking
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