Real Positivity.

[Tony]

Real Positivity.

Being over-positive can be stressful and can cover up reality, turning reality into something which it is not. It can be misleading, as it is trying to make what is already perfect, more perfect.

There is a huge wave of over-positiveness sweeping the modern world. It makes claims which are beyond people's reach. It's wanting to create a "new you". It makes a big deal out of itself. It makes many claims.

This positivity is a very subtle business.
There is negativity and there is positivity: they are both fine and useful. But when we get into negative negativity and positive positivity, that's when we run into trouble.

Negative negativity is justifying a mistaken view. It is an illusion, just turned into delusion.
Positive positivity is justifying a real view. It is turning reality into a ritual.

In ancient Sanskrit text, there are three aspects of our nature which described as The Three Gunas: Tamas, Rajas and Sattva. Tamas is a sleepy state. Rajas is an active state and Sattva is an awakened state (it's said that food, art, music - in fact everything in the phenomenal world - has one of these three effects).
But they are called the three thieves.

Tamas represents dullness.
Rajas represents excitement.
Sattva represents stillness.
It's easy to see that the first two are thieves to our being, but it is not so easy to see in the third - Sattva. It is the clinging to Sattva that takes us down to the other two states.
All three states are beneficial, but when we identify with them they become demonic.

This is what meditation is all about – constantly letting go. Depending on our temperament, the negative or positive aspects of our nature can be used. We can use aversion as the path. We can use desire as the path. We can actually use ignorance as the path.

Ignorance is interesting. Ignorance means indifference, not caring, spaced out, lacking spaciousness, lacking generosity, feeling solid. But that can be turned into a spacious, carefree open quality ...pure awareness of Essence.

So we can all work in different ways. Anything negative that 'seems' to be happening can be flipped into real positivity. If we do not know this, we will believe anything!

To these 'Very Silly People Who Try To Control' everything, and who just want us to keep busy, sticking to 'stuff' - just say, "Hello Goodbye!" It's just like those chattering thoughts in the mind...they all come to pass!

Don't believe anything.
Only your pure awareness.
Without that you would not 'know'!



Tony

[GoodETxSG]

Good post, people do not give enough credit to the power of a + outlook or the HARM on themselves and those close to them who have a - outlook.
Thank you....

[GloriousPoetry]

Perhaps the fusion of negativity and positivity is where we learn to create more effectively.....Alchemy......sometimes I think how are we to master the light if we haven't mastered the darkness.

[Tony]

When we close our eyes, and everything seems dark, what notices this is your light - that is Pure Awareness.
You are never without it, for it is your true nature.

Tony

[Dorjezigzag]

But of course we are not just beings of light we must also face the dark in our selves. Only then can we appreciate emptiness.

It is only semantics and I know it is used within many sacred texts that I have respect, but this is why I believe the focus on the words pure and light can be misleading for those on a spiritual path. Too much light is out of balance.


At its heart are the two poles of existence, which are opposite but complementary. The light, white Yang moving up blends into the dark, black Yin moving down. Yin and Yang are dependent opposing forces that flow in a natural cycle, always seeking balance. Though they are opposing, they are not in opposition to one another. As part of the Tao, they are merely two aspects of a single reality. Each contains the seed of the other, which is why we see a black spot of Yin in the white Yang and vice versa. They do not merely replace each other but actually become each other through the constant flow of the universe


Yin and yang thus are always opposite and equal qualities. Further, whenever one quality reaches its peak, it will naturally begin to transform into the opposite quality: for example, grain that reaches its full height in summer (fully yang) will produce seeds and die back in winter (fully yin) in an endless cycle.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Yin_yang_from_a_golden_spiral.png

[johnf]

I find that actual being is neutral, whether it is the three gunas, or the interplay of yin and yang , these are both phenomena that come and go. By practicing repeated return to neutrality we let go of things in the rise and fall of creation, and become more capable of acting in the most harmonious way to whatever is happening around us, not withdrawing ,not grasping ,but flowing with what is. Being positive is a red herring in my experience.

[music]

It is a fact of mainifestation that the seed of the negative is always contained within the positive, and vice versa. More than that, the initial positive is half negative and half positive, but only the positive quality is expressed. The negative seed within the initial positive is half +, half -, and so each pole of this seed is half/half, and each half is half/half, and so on until the very, very small meets the very, very large. Seeds within seeds, so it is, and it is beautiful. It is all about how we manifest. What do we wish to express in the reality we currently find ourselves in?

Worth thinking about also is the cultural shorthand which takes us all down a one way street whenever the terms positive and negative are used. We have taken basic concepts of energy, and two thirds of the true trinity, and attached ego-defined concepts to them. Positive is not inherently good, and negative is not inherently bad, it is merely energy. Not semantics, merely a plea for intellectual and spiritual freedom.