The Allegory of the Right and Left tandem

The Allegory of the Right and Left tandem

The simple state of Being transcends vertically the highest and deepest reality

 from the beginning of time, space and form.

At first there was the vertical. The Right state of Being.

Then, when the external reality became concrete,

the definite Left stepped in.

The Left kept adding layers…overfilled,

it started pulling the Right state of Being

horizontally, to a side,

so now only together could they balance the Being.

The Right state of Being became the Being´s right,

and the one assuming the name of Having

was left with the left side.

Since then,

the state of Being keeps reclaiming its right to wholeness,

or at least to primacy, before the Having,

for the Having kept acting as supreme.

The passing of the Right vertical to the right side of the being

removed it from its centre,

from its Right Path that led the focus to the inner fire,

and gave it different angles of inclination.

Self indulging, it allowed itself to be more and more inclined

to the external reality of the left world,

with its worries of having or not

having the gifts that animate it,

with its imagined identities,

added to the state of Being,

with its poetic restless joys and sadness.

The different angles formed different frameworks

through different relationships with its source of being,

just like the Earth´s tilt gives rise to the different seasons

based on the Sun´s position relative to it.

The different beings build their own external realities

in order to experience,

with all their senses, their internal world, the right one.

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Date: January 30, 2026
Author: Elena Petreșteanu (Romania)
Photo: Willian Justen de Vasconcellos on Unsplash

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