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Originally Posted by iamthat
But duality implies a third element - the relationship between the two aspects of duality. So Oneness manifests as a triplicity.
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Close but no cigar
The pre-Taoist alchemists called it Triplex Unity. It appears in Christianity as the fish symbol, it appears in ancient Egypt as part of the Eye of Ra and it appears in Ireland as the trefoil. Draw a circle on paper with another beside it. That's duality vs non-duality, Oneness vs Maya...... Draw another two circles but one above the other and intersecting. See? It's called the Vesica Pisces and forms the basis for the Buddhist Egg and Flower of Life. The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. You can visualise the two circles as our 'spheres of consciousness' overlapping as you read this, and it's in the overlap that the understanding comes. It doesn't matter what you think of this post, there's an interaction of consciousness going on just the same. That simply can't happen in Oneness. But then, everything exists in relation to something else - Oneness doesn't exist without Maya. If there is no Maya then Oneness is meaningless.
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Originally Posted by iamthat
"When the self advances, the ten thousand things retreat. When the self retreats, the ten thousand things advance."
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A simple shift in perspective.
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Originally Posted by iamthat
Tao produced the One.
The One produced the two.
The two produced the three.
And the three produced the ten thousand things.
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Any number of cultures say something similar, that it's a division/aspect of One but the understanding is that the One creates the many that creates the One, linear thinking is the barrier here and when you think relationships and 'feedback loops' it all makes sense. Those ten thousand things also created the concept of Oneness, God, the drops and the ocean.....