Nibbana is my father and samsara is my mother.
My father is eternal and my mother is change.
In yearning for the eternal, man looks down on the ever-changing feminine.
In yearning for the ever-changing feminine, man neglects the eternal.
The seeming duality of eternity and transience is the paradox of reality. Monasticism embraces eternity and rejects transience, while worldliness embraces the transient and rejects eternity.
We must embrace the middle way - a balance between the masculine eternity of consciousness and the feminine transience of form. Mind and matter must relate, and they do.
Nibbana and samsara have children - us. Mind and matter relate within the body. This relationship heals through awareness of respiration, believe it or not. This is the science of yoga.
Mind and matter, emptiness and form, nibbana and samsara, yang and yin, male and female. These polar opposites need resolution, and that resolution comes about through the interpenetration of opposites - yoga.
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