What a coincidence or serendipity that on 18th
August I posted a small piece in my FB page in a hurry as a reply on the polarity
principle
and on 19th as I open the center page of TOI Chennai
edition there this article is excellent article is written
and incidentally on 19th night I happen to read one
of Paul Brunton’s notebooks [ most his notebooks of 8 volumes are under my cot
for light reading before going to bed ] here is a link to what I stumbled upon
on that day which I found today http://paulbrunton.org/notebooks/26/3
Here is one from another favorite author of mine Neale
Donald Walsch
The list of words denoting opposite are themselves very
interesting to study as a part of semantics of linguistics.
Go to www.powerthesaurus.org
one of the best in business and you will get to know the multiple meanings of
opposite, contrary, contradictory, different etc and paradoxically each one of
them is again having sometimes totally different connotation and used in
complete contradictory terms. Just type the word ‘contrary’ in the site and you
can spend a few days reading all the meanings of all the words.
Read these excellent quotes to spice up or enhance
understanding of polarity principle
Then there are of course some interesting links and
materials which will further dispel all doubts we may have about polarity
principle
I
have written earlier once the following in my blog post
In a way Advaitha [Oneness],
polarity or dichotomy [Dwaitha/duality] and Triad are all perhaps the
manifestations of attributes of the self or what is perceived by the self. This
is one of the many reasons for contradictions in every serious search for truth
or Reality.
Contradictions
are also because of human psyche’s penchant for generalizing variety,
oversimplifying the complex, sometimes confusing the motives to be either the
means or meaning of the quest, justifying all means, fear of various kinds, predominance
of certain types of thinking, passing everything through a prism of some
popular or prevailing liking, seeing things with jaundiced vision and
prejudiced views, presuming that we need to judge everything and everyone,
applying irrelevant metrics to evaluate everything rather than evaluating
anything through its inherent merits and so on.
Contradictions
are very often camouflaged as dichotomies and dichotomies are the indoctrinated
and engraved part of many domains of life as Dudley
Lynch puts forth very nicely, “The brain forever has dichotomies on its mind-The
ancient Taoists did it with yin/yang. Religious types with good/evil.
Philosophers with mind/matter. Particle scientists with wave/particle.
Psychologists with nature/nurture. Law officers with good cop/bad cop. On and
on and on. You just had to know that it was only a matter of time before
“dualism”—or … harrumph! … co-eternal binary opposition—infested neuro
discussions like kudzu” and continues “Maybe, as one thoughtful observer has suggested, even as old
dualisms get knocked down, “it seems that there is something about the wiring
of the brain that leads to new dualisms springing up.” Talk about Whack-a-Mole!
That was certainly what the late George Kelly, the
father of personal construct psychology, thought. “Our
psychological geometry is a geometry
of dichotomies[italics mine] rather than the geometry of areas envisioned by
the classical logic of concepts, or the geometry of lines envisioned by
classical mathematical geometries.” (Double harrumph!) in his
blog [1] {do
not miss to read the comments about George Kelly in the link as well }
But when
we transcend these fallacies, avoid getting struck at the seams or joints and
instead effect a transition to transformation we can easily infer and perceive
with greater clarity.
As Sherlock Holmes declares, “From a drop of water a
logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagra without having
seen or heard of one or the other. So, all life is a great chain, the nature of
which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.”
"The spirit of
Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with
everything." - - Swami Chinmayananda.
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