of course, when I say light and darkness, I dont mean it literally.
"True light" is not a real value. There is no impurity in light. That is its nature. Light is a real thing, discrete wave-like particles :D. It is 'fused' with darkness. Darkness is the absence of light; it only exists in relation to light. Further, a universe with no relativity of states is the essence of formlessness. If it was all light, it would be homogenous akin to hypothesised "heat death" state where all region of spacetime is qualitatively the same. It would be difficult to observe anything whatsoever.
I think that you might be referring to allegorical darkness i.e. impurity, negativity, ignorance, etc. Remember though that these allegories are based on the attributes of
real things. It cannot be an effective symbol or metaphor if it actually doesn't share major qualities with its real-life counterpart.
Maybe instead of trying to destroy your inner darkness, it could be beneficial to approach it and make it work for you. As you say, if you see aspects of yourself that are dark, it is you that has determined that; these qualities are valueless before that. You can manipulate your darkness into becoming something valuable and yet still itself. Again, it seems the mainstream religious desire to see humans as impure and degraded just confuses me; I've had to work hard to unlearn that. It often seems to me that the things many religions see as dark are simply our animal instinct. Its inescapable; condemning it is futile. IMO.
Darkness has always appealed to me though. In many ways, it is simply that which is unknown.
I think that is exactly what people are saying. In physics, you have the idea of cause and effect, where we seperate these two qualities. But if you consider any action- I hit a key causing a letter to appear on my screen; you see that they are actually not seperate things at all and, indeed, cannot be seperated . The same thing is true with light and darkness; they are non-dual aspects of the same thing.
about light and darkness, I think we agree from what you said here !
darkness is anything that doesnt brings pleasant abiding. each time you hate, judge negatively, think too highly of yourself, kill, lie, compare yourself to others, ect, this creates suffering automatically and its dark no matter what you may think about it.
imo, dark stuff in us cannot be manipulated into something positive, we have to be aware of that darkness, to not let it stay for to long, and replace the darkness by light. but its not as simple as it sounds
about our animal instinct, sure! but there still instinct that are detrimental to our happiness and we dont know, until we experience something drastically different (meditative states, psychedelic drugs ) and then you understand with that experience how wrong we acted before. without that experience which brings the insight, which psychedelic brings easily, it may be hard to really see that part of us we couldn't even see before.
please state me things you consider inescapable in our animal instincts...
about the cause and effect, I'm not following you here. you are comparing cause and effect with light and dark.
cause and effect is the process
dark and light is very specific feeling/thinking that will affect you directly and can only be separated and never together.
for example, each time you hate. you can observe what that creates in your mind. I mean, can you love and hate at the same time? no, you have to love, then let go of love, then perceive hate. what I said is that I think that you can stop altogether the perception of darkness and only perceive light at all time.
I think that as long as we think/observe/ judge outside reality we are always in a bit of darkness as what motivates us to think, judge, observe isnt as ''light'' as we think it is and those desires are much more poignant in ourselves then we want to really realize: basically, what we think we want to do in this moment is more related to obsession then control. To think that we are in control of ourselve is the most ridiculous thing yet most people think they are in control of their lives

we are not in control of ourselves and so dark can enter and DO enter because are totally unaware of it almost as we are so tuned to it and habituated, we do not see its detrimental effect anymore.