Dualistic Cartoon!

Richard Rohr writes in The Naked Now:

"With dualistic minds it is always one or the other--it can never be both. The result is that we still think of ourselves as mere humans trying desperately to become 'spiritual,' when the Christian revelation was precisely that you are already spiritual ('in God'), and your difficult but necessary task is to learn how to become human. Jesus came to model the full integration for us and, in effect, told us that Divinity looked just like him--while he looked ordinarily human to everybody!

"It is in our humanity that we are still so wounded, so needy, so unloving, so self-hating, and so in need of enlightenment. We seem to have spawned centuries of people trying to be spiritual and religious, whereas our record on basic humanness is rather pitiful." (69)

Rohr, Richard. The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See. NY: Crossroad Publishing, 2009.

By Bob Seal

The troubled mind cannot decide between "good/bad" or "right/wrong." That's how we automatically think in dualistic terms. It is much harder to observe non-judgmentally, as the dog is thinking in the cartoon.