Both black and white believe their cause to be just. They believe that they are upholding righteousness in their struggle. White is always the aggressor however. White always takes the first move. Black then is on the defensive.
White reflects the light, black absorbs it. Either can be seen as righteous.
In the end though, there remains that duality. Not only is there White in Black Territory and vice-versa, but when a pawn successfully travels to the edges of the opposing territory they are transfigured and become more powerful.
Only by understanding your enemy do you ever understand yourself. How can you ever understand your own position if you don't understand the contra? By embracing this duality the weakest piece can become the most powerfull.
There is white and black in everything. Duality all around us. I was the White Knight, then the Black Knight, and finally the Black King. Amd now I understand that white, black-- its all the same. In one is the other.
Two righteous forces on the field, fighting a manifestation of a part of themselves. No wonder so many matches can only end in stalemate.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Black and White part one
Sixty-four squares on the chess board. It is upon that field that the classic battle of white versus black plays out. Those sixty-four squares alternate between black and white in a checkered pattern, balanced with thirty-two squares bearing each color.
Which means that, ironically, "Black Territory" has eight white squares and "White Territory" has eight black squares.
While this is a non-issue regularly overlooked and barely worth noting, it is infinately significant in a consideration of the duality of black and white on the chess board and in life.
In the Western World we have come to associate white with good and black with bad. Sadly, life is simply not that "black and white." There is a duality at play in most everything in our lives. The black team must embrace white and the white team black... with one exception.
The bishops. They adamantely sit on their one color and do not deviate. You might be compelled to think of them as the metaphorical angel and devil on the shoulder, whispering their advice and influence, BUT that would be accepting the idea that white is good and black is bad.
And that is simply not the case.
Which means that, ironically, "Black Territory" has eight white squares and "White Territory" has eight black squares.
While this is a non-issue regularly overlooked and barely worth noting, it is infinately significant in a consideration of the duality of black and white on the chess board and in life.
In the Western World we have come to associate white with good and black with bad. Sadly, life is simply not that "black and white." There is a duality at play in most everything in our lives. The black team must embrace white and the white team black... with one exception.
The bishops. They adamantely sit on their one color and do not deviate. You might be compelled to think of them as the metaphorical angel and devil on the shoulder, whispering their advice and influence, BUT that would be accepting the idea that white is good and black is bad.
And that is simply not the case.
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