Dualism
Western dualism (roman christianity = catholicism) and Asian dualism (buddhism) are essentially different.
Western dualism = THEORETICAL division of sense reality in man-made and wilderness, in metaphysical and physical, 'good' and 'evil', 'continuous' and 'discrete', 'science' and 'intuition'.
Example: In 'business' making the arbitrary divide 'workers' and 'owners'. And then
distinguishing between 'hard dollars' as trade-tool in the 'wilderness of workers' and stock exchange papers as manmade investment item for the 'owners'.
Western dualism is based on creationism: There has to be 'something' behind reality, and we Western humans are on the side of that 'something'.
Resulting in Priests of Science in universities.
Asian dualism = PRACTICAL (situation dependent) division of sense reality (the All) in safe and dangerous = ethics
Resulting in Buddhist monks in monasteries.
What makes things confusing that both Mohammedanism (muslim copy of Catholicism) and
Hinduism (dividing in castes) also divide reality in good and evil.
Dualism as splitting an object into paired fields of study
(mind and body, values and facts, TRUE and FALSE, law and physics, abstract and material, proved succesful in technology.
It is a TOOL only, and needs to be handled VERY carefully.
The key Western approach towards for progress, after Enlightenment has been
a mind-body split, supreme 'consciousness + 'ratio' (creation) and inferior intuition (matter).
A holistic approach would imply a return to sensible matter.
And cherishing the results of 'rationalism' (very good tools to explore reality).
Hopeful is that the source in BEHAVIOR of both Western Christianity and Buddhism is Zoroastrianism.
The only difference is the western myth 'understanding' and the resulting 'interpretion' and 'theory'.
most pictures on the websites of Zarah2nd
