Swinging Doors

From the Victorian Romantic Tarot, Judgment; from the Dreaming in Color Deck, Duality:

In this Judgment card, the king and queen of the fairies bestow a laurel to a human couple. Awakening to reality should be celebrated; it takes a lot to willingly let go of blind beliefs and rigid opinions so that we can perceive with insight. Ignorance isn't bliss, it just creates suffering. Duality - separating things into this or that, subject or object - may be necessary to get along in the world, but it creates divisions that can harm when we don't realize they are superficial. In Buddhism, emptiness means that all things, from people to planets to thoughts, are empty of permanence and inherent existence (everything is created and temporarily sustained by certain causes and conditions). All that exists is interdependent on other things. What a drastic transformation this could cause if we could understand it with the heart instead of just the intellect.

Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves the awareness of the universal existence. "You" means to be aware of the universe in the form of you, and "I" means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors. ―Shunryu Suzuki