I was watching a segment of Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith yesterday and Obi-Wan Kenobi''s line struck me with particular force. When Anakin says, "I consider the Jedi evil," Obi-Wan answers him thus, "Only a Sith deals with Absolutes."
How intriguing ...
A spiritual teacher I respect, Franciscan Richard Rohr teaches that a sign of spiritual maturity is when one moves from an either-or mentality ("I'm right and you're wrong!") to a state where one can accept and be comfortable with a certain amount of ambiguity in life because faith, frequently misunderstood as a "certainty," is actually, by definition, a state of being comfortable with ambiguity, often the ambiguity of acknowledging that absolute truth (or absolute falsehood for that matter) cannot be found in anyone or anything. Rather, everyone or everything is almost always partially correct, as the philosopher Ken Wilber also teaches.
It's being open to this kind of ambiguity that constitutes a more mature, open, and compassionate way of looking at and relating with the world.
I honour and cherish this dharma-teaching!
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