One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds. Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony (Haruki Murakami).

Question: What do you think about it? Is all this really necessary?

Answer: You see this is the Japanese mentality to some extent. Naturally this is a kind of convex materialism where one thing cannot exist without the other and is the result of the struggle of opposites.

Such a saying is suitable for our world. It is one of many that speaks of an unbalanced world in which there is no perfection, but for some reason the world is striving for it.

Question: How do these mundane things that Murakami writes about apparently transfer into some other things in people at certain points of higher development?

Answer: We must reach a state in which we would become convinced that the struggle is necessary, opposites must open up, and we must bring ourselves to our starting point in which we were born.

At this point a person must attain them, come to terms with them, connect with them, and achieve true harmony. That is, harmony begins when we achieve the unity of opposites.

A person must agree that what is offered to him in the form of a world of struggle of opposites is in fact our illusory world. And if we advance correctly, then instead of these two opposite forces—for example, yin – yang—we will disclose a single force that lies inside these two opposites and gives birth to them only so that they reveal this force itself.
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From KabTV’s “Kabbalah Express” 11/18/22

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