[Profpat]

Hi Benedict;

I like your work a lot. Have you had it published?

Some questions or comments are:

1) is AOS similar to Hegel's Thesis - Antithesis - Synthesis?

2) Did you answer your question as to the Meaning of Life?

3) When you mentioned the 6th century BC philosophers who were addressing duality, you left out Zathustra ( Zoroaster ) and his good and evil, twin Gods, and Pythagoras and his positive and negative numbers.

4) You asked why suffering under the WHY title. According to the Buddha is due to our desires, which though difficult to end, must be ended to end suffering. The problem of course is that you have to end your desire of love, and even the desire of not desiring.

5) I am in full agreement in the unity or harmony of opposites and in the following on your site;

In referring to respectively Augustine, John Kepler and Athanasius Kircher, the professor in philosophy characterizes this view on the world as follows:

"Man and world are designed on the same basic plan but on a different scale: they are ruled by the same laws, know the same properties and where completely tuned in on each other."

"The whole world was, as the platonic way of thinking held out, the realization of a divine idea, a divine archetype."

"The whole world in all her aspects ... was the result of a harmonious symphony of interconflicting forces: a concordia discors."

(Max Wildiers, De vijf vreugden van de geest, p. 153 e.v.)

As you pointed out the TAO Diagram and I believe my Idea Venn Diagram, represents just that, the harmony of opposites.

Best to you Benedict,

Pat