Understanding non-dualism

I was not able to think and experience life the way I presently do until I learned Non-dualism.

What is non-dualism?

The best way I learned about this is to look at the weather:

Is rain good or bad?

Is snow good or bad?

Is sun good or bad?

Is wind Good or bad?

 It totally depends upon the situation and how it affects you whether you consider it good or bad.

It is neither in all cases.

So, when you try to explain good and bad in life often you wind up being ridiculous in the actuality of what you are dealing with.

Being Raised a protestant mystical Christian I had to confront this sooner or later in my life or I was going to stay basically a child the rest of my life. There is no ultimate good or bad (at least in the physical world) there are only relative states of good and bad which I often call "Shades of Grey".

To fully EVER be an adult in your life you have to see it this way or else you are a child and ridiculous your whole life! (AS many people seem to be).

It's sort of like Sex or Food. Is Sex or food good or bad? 

Without either sex or food people often go insane. This is just a fact of life. We see it every day when someone goes crazy and kills themselves or many others and then themselves because of these kinds of things every day now!

So, sex is neither good nor bad inherently and food is the same thing.

To see it otherwise is to invite disaster into your life of an insane nature.

So, this is why I often consider celibate people insane (especially if they are younger than 35 or 40 years of age) because some type of insanity is often the result UNLESS those people are completely asexual in that they either never have sex (even masturbation) ever anyway or they ONLY are interested in having sex with themselves and never others.

So, in understanding dualism and moving towards non-dualism you start to often get much more sane in your life as you begin to see life as it is rather than how many people want it to be.

Then you get to Descartes philosophic Statement if you are healthy enough mentally to see this where:

"There is nothing so good that no bad may come of it and nothing so bad that no good may come of it!" 

There is also a saying: "Samsara Sucks" which is about the physical world we live in and how in the physical world at least nothing is ever quite perfect.

However, that doesn't stop any of us from trying to create the "Perfect World" right here on earth.

I myself have never given up trying to create my Heaven here on earth. I'm still getting better at this every day and I'm 78!