Understanding Opposites: Regret and Forgiveness

I have said this before and I mean what I said. Opposites do not exist. Oh, but they do. They exist under certain conditions. When one side of something is given credit of existence without the other having that equal existence, or when ignorance replaces the understanding of both sides as one whole. Separation and divisions give importance and rise to opposites. Until you see the ONE BIG picture, only then will you see my meaning. So for human meaning, opposites exist.

"Opposites do not exist in the Oneness of the Universe and all that is created."

J. Stallings

Let's discuss opposites using regret and forgiveness. I hope this is a good explanation. I am almost positive that anyone that thinks opposites will think of one of these things; Good/Bad, Right/Left or Right/Wrong, Up/Down, Hot/Cold and Wet/Dry being that these are the most common to humans.

Regret - regretting something is only when you realize you've done something you wish or did not want to happen. The real answer should be to realize that you should learn from what happened and how it happened by not focusing on what you did not want to happen, but rather what you gain from what did happen. This will help you to forgive yourself.

Forgiving yourself is easy when you realize yourself did not want to do wrong, but you realize the change of understanding from what you didn't know which caused a change to what you do know caused a change. The focus here is, you realize you understand what you didn't understand, thus you can forgive yourself.

This forgiveness is not forgiveness, just as regret is not regret. It is understanding of one side out weighing the other. Balance those two and stay connected to yourself in the now and you will not have to forgive or regret. Thus regret and forgiveness is unimportant and non existent in a world where you realize that you changed to a greater level of understanding. Add love to both directions and you have love just love.

Love can be out of proportion as well. Love of self over others and love of others over self. Either way becomes an disporportionate existence. Love is the only thing that creates in this world. Realization of self is to understand uniqueness or individuality. This realization will open many doors. It is you in you that doesn't know you are there. This is also the concept of or explanation of self as being a body, mind and soul or spirit. These levels or parts of self make up one self. One controlling the self is going to be greedy. The other controlling self is going to be loving of all things. Greedy gets reduced to taking as needed for self preservation but balanced with the understanding that self is not alone in this existence. The understanding that self is part of an existence that isn't your existence and thus a level of respect goes towards the existence. Then questioning self becomes common place as self evolves in the adapation phases of becoming one with selfish and selfless.

I could go into the discussion of Right and Wrong or Left and Right, but that is so embedded into humanity that it's a level of discussion that will turn off many as they are slave to their mind and imprisoned by their knowledge of knowing. This focus removes the understanding of not understanding. That is another subject though, so it will be discussed later.