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Recieved: 2000/11/18 01:11
Subject: [K-list] Duality Neutrality Singularity (So & So)
From: Wim Borsboom
On 2000/11/18 01:11, Wim Borsboom posted thus to the K-list:
Dear So & So
You may already have picked up from my posts that I have great philosophical
difficulty with the idea that opposites exist as reality. The only reality
they may have is as an outdated ephemeral tool for the continuation of
illusion and suffering. We cannot continue to use the concept of opposites
as the basis of our philosophy if we aim to reclaim comprehensive integrity.
Anyway, just bear with me...
You wrote:
> His name is Rodolfo Scarfalloto .. the book is "Alchemy of Opposites"
> "We experience *duality by thinking*. We experience singularity by
feeling...
I take it that the rest of your post (copied here at the end of this post)
was
quoted by you from his book?
There maybe something to it. Hhhmmm.
Have to think about it some more. Hhhmmmm.
As long as he does not treat 'duality' (two-ness) the same as a 'duel'.
Hhhmmm
A fight between seemingly opposing forces. Hmmmm.
We get things so easily mixed up when we think, speak and act unclearly and
without lucidity.
Hhhhmmmm.
Enough thinking, yes... It is good, a fresh perspective on
duality. We tend to think that whatever the mind does, that it is somehow
NOT good....
How many of us have not gone through that episode of hating our
thoughts....?
It is like not appreciating your own reflection in the mirror, it does not
go away unless you walk away. And then, when you take a quick peek in the
mirror to ensure that your reflection is gone, you see your reflection
again. Hehehe .
It is not for nothing that we use the word reflection for thinking.(There is
an AHA in there!)
(Remember that Marks Brother's sketch in which THERE IS NO MIRROR,
hilarious. What was the title of that movie? Duck Soup? (There was an HAHA
in there!)
Whatever philosophy we have, it must allow for total and loving acceptance
of everything that arises. If philosophy does not do that, then it is not
loving (philo) wisdom (sophia). Hehehe. (Another AHA?)
>>>The correlations of duality with thinking, & of singularity with feeling,
is
simplistically reflected in the anatomy of the brain. The cerebrum or New
Brain, houses the capacity to think, discern, dissect, analyse & compare.
The
brainstem, or Old Brain, contains centers for raw animal desires, impulses
& instinct .. Like two partners in a dance, they interact in a seemingly
infinite variety of ways to create the unique tapestry of physical &
psychological
qualities of the individual ...>>>>>
Oh, I like that.
> the cerebrum uses its power of discernment to simply report the
> truth *without censoring or distorting* it ..
Right.
> To be in duality is to perceive opposing forces.
Hmmm, Hmmm again. That is actually NOT SO... but OK for now. Hmmm
No, not OK. Some more hmm, hmmming.
When we are in the *duality by thinking* mode, nourished and supported by
sense perceptions (skandas) *without censoring or distorting*, we actually
see that there are...
NO opposing forces. (...void = form=void=form...)
Look it up in my posts, Adam figured it out, (look up 'opposites').
The *concept* of 'opposites' is a temporary assumption, a mental construct
just for the time being, a thinking tool to be discarded after use, like a
milk carton, except that it does not pollute our environment but our mind.
We
mentally conceive of such a tool to understand complex realities. Once we've
figured them out, we have to let go of the concept. Most people think that
the insights discovered with the perusal of some concept proves the reality
of that temporary concept as well. The concept of 'opposites' is such a
temporary tool that has to be discarded after use.
Interlude:
That is why in the Montessori environment opposites are not (supposed to be)
used. I made that quite a point when I trained new directresses. Words like
higher, warmer, larger or heavier are to be used, words that express scale,
grade, gradients or gauge measurements. There is the 'pink tower' and the
'cylinder blocks insets' with graded sizes to be sorted and/or stacked.
There is the 'bells' materials to order frequencies of sound. There is a
method devised for children to discover temperature gradients without having
to start with the concept of hot versus cold. They discover that
multiplication and division, addition and subtraction are not opposite
mathematical operations, but relativity approaches, they depending on where
you are coming from, they depending on the position of the experimenter. We
need to take children out of the world of the 'black versus white', 'good
versus bad' absolutes. ('Schroedinger's cat' isn't a problem as there is the
absolute yes versus no is a senseless distinction.)
It is very important that we start children off with concepts that are at
least closer to current scientific findings (gauge fields) and not outdated
concepts from the time that humans still lived like flatlanders in a pancake
shaped world. Five-year olds can playfully discover 3 dimensions on their
own, and will take it from there. You should see their faces when they have
just figured that out and come as little Archimedeses to you, only wearing
their naked Eurekas. Ah, the binomial and trinomial cubes, I remember my
discovery of the regularity still, when I was 5.5 years old with Terry
Luyten. Never had any algebra problems later, just a problem with the math
teacher, as I thought he did not understand beyond formulas and the rote
learning. Children actually discover counting in base two on their own. Or
base 16 if needed. Maybe that is why my son became at a very young age such
a computer expert and fantastic programmer.
Picking up the thread again:
After we have discovered the diversity of ALL THAT IS within ONE, we clean
out the basement of our concepts, and we do not get tempted to sell those
used tools at a garage sale to be reused, they are to go to a museum. "The
museum of concepts".
Let's say that you are building your own house. After you have finished
building you can actually throw your hammer away. The hammer is a temporary
tool that was used to build the house. By the time you need to repair the
house or build another one somebody has already invented a pneumatic nailing
gun, or you will use some new-fangled adhesive glue or... that nuclear
cohesion force 'epsilon' where .007 of the amount of energy that wafts
around each cluster of nuclear particles can be tunnelled back and forth
with
the use of a new type of nano size micro-wave oven. They can hold everything
together even a gobble-d-gooked and shattered mind . (Unless you live in a
museum of concepts of course ;-)
> To be in singularity is to perceive unity.
> Duality sees life in its diversity.
That is right. See, that is exactly what I meant!
> To be in duality is to perceive opposing forces.
That is wrong. See, diversity is not the same as opposing forces.
> Singularity sees life in its sameness ..
Right!
> Neutrality is reached by being disengaged,
> propped squarely between two polarities.
Wrong! It has to do with "gauge fields", some newish microcosmic entities.
Are right and wrong opposites?
No right-wrongness, just like left-rightness, even polarity and direction of
spin are relativity concepts, they depend on the location of the observer
and the observed, a mutual functionality. It depends on whether they are
coming or going in relation to each other. It depends on the speed of light
and the fastness and weightiness of their thoughts, the energetic clarity of
their thinking. We can use these concepts as a tool to discern, a tool to
use in the philosophic method. Right and wrong in themselves do not exist,
nor do left and right, nor positive and negative. Duality in terms of
opposites is not a reality, it is only a point of intersection, a place
where interference occurs.
Duality, Neutrality, Singularity
Did you notice the way this appears in your subject line of this post:
Neutrality in the middle and the other concepts on either side. As though to
subliminally indicate that Singularity is opposite of Duality.
As though ONE can be the opposite of TWO.
Something wrong there!
Only trying to be naughty,
You know I love you, and 99.3 percent of this post is actually true, the
rest is dissipating hot air. Poof.....
Love,
Wim
http://www.egroups.com/files/Kundalini-Gateway/Wims/
Here is the quote of the article:
His name is Rodolfo Scarfalloto .. the book is "Alchemy of Opposites"
"We experience duality by thinking. We experience singularity by feeling ..
The correlations of duality with thinking, & of singularity with feeling, is
simplistically reflected in the anatomy of the brain. The cerebrum or New
Brain, houses the capacity to think, discern, dissect, analyse & compare.
The brainstem, or Old Brain, contains centers for raw animal desires,
impulses & instinct .. Like two partners in a dance, they interact in a
seemingly infinite variety of ways to create the unique tapestry of physical
& psychological qualities of the individual ..
The two parts of the brain are reunited when the cerebrum recognizes &
accurately gives voice to the urges & feelings rising out of the brainstem.
In other words, the cerebrum uses its power ofdiscernment to simply report
the truth without censoring or distorting it ..
The harmonious blending of human discernment in the new brain withthe primal
impulses of the old brain results in the everyday experiences of compassion,
kindness, kinship, honor & integrity. This blending of the new & old brain
deepens as the former trains itself to be still, so that it can listen more
deeply to the echoes of singularity rising up (as feelings) from the Old
Brain. The deeper & fuller integration of new & old brain may translate into
religious ecstasy, transpersonal bliss, timeless peace, & the feeling we are
one ..
To be in duality is to perceive opposing forces. To be in singularity is to
perceive unity. Duality sees life in its diversity. Singularity sees life in
its sameness ..
Singularity is not neutrality. Going beyond duality does not mean we are
"neutral". Neutral is just another way of being in duality. Neutral is zero;
singularity is infinity. Neutrality is neither, singularity is both.
Neutrality sees the two opposing forces as mutually exclusive; singularity
sees them as the two sides of the same coin. Neutrality
sees incompatibility; singularity sees that one contains (& is contained
within) the other.
Neutrality perceives that one side can destroy the other; singularity does
not judge for it sees no separation. neutral means, "I don't care who wins",
singularity means, "I care about both, for I am both." Neutrality is the
earnest attempt to forgive sins; singularity is the awareness that there
never was any sin. Neutrality is dispassionate;
singularity is intensely passionate. Neutrality is androgenous; singularity
is simultaneously both male & female. Neutrality is a thought we contemplate
in the mind; singularity is a feeling.
Neutrality is reached by being disengaged, propped squarely between two
polarities. Singularity is reached by being fully engaged & going all the
way to one side which allows us to discover the seed of the other.
The inner call to go beyond duality compels us to move beyond neutrality. As
long as we remain neutral on any two opposing views, we cannot discover that
one is contained within the other; we do not experience the birth of one in
the heart of the other, so that we can know them to be singular."
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"Indirect knowledge gathered from books or teachers can never emancipate a
person until its truth is investigated, applied, experimented with and
experienced. Only direct, factual and actual realization does that. Realize
your whole self, reintegrate your mind and body." - Tripura Rahasya, 18: 89
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