My egoic mind functions on the basis of separation and differentiation, this is how I (and everyone I know) learns language. Starting with "ME" vs "mom", my hunger vs my comfort, what I like vs what I dislike, red vs blue, hard vs soft, etc. are all separate and distinct concepts and later have words attached to them. This process then continues to MY family, MY community, MY country, MY religion, and so on. These distinct separations along with the principle of "cause" resulting in "effect", allow our "rational" egoic thought to exist. In maturing we can learn that "MY" does not always mean "better", and having compassion, empathy, and love, and expressing kindness, generosity, forgiveness, and patience towards others leads to less isolation, and reduced suffering for ourselves as well as for them, even though it is still based on ME being separate from them (and all else). Finally, realization can dawn of how inherently limited and unsatisfactory the finite egoic perspective is, that only the mortal can (and must) die, and recognize the larger spectrum of Truth clearly, which of course includes all the finite (colors) as well.
On Oct 23, 2022 Ted wrote :