Opposites Attract

Two bulls in a field with locked horns … is indeed a confrontation … that's expected to be unyielding … until one has had enough. The intensity of the contest … the flared nostrils … and rage of concerns … in the bull … is certainly awesome. However to a man … observing the phenomenon … its an  observation of the male culture in the anima … and he experiences no further involvement beyond that.

 

In much the same way … we note a confrontation between two armies … in these times … and we can't help but feel involved … on account of the side that we identify with. However if we took it a step further … to identify the issues … and attain a grasp of its origins … we come to another perspective of the situation … that's beyond the people on both sides of the argument. Such issues leads us to … the cause of events … the nature of the phenomenon … and the context of the passions.

 

And when we ourselves … engage in a similar contest of wills … we get an even closer view of the content of the experience … its origins … its relation to other issues … and its ability to cause angst. The knowledge of these issues … helps us to view it clearly … and it marks an event in these times … in the world … of such an occurrence. Such a knowledge is everything … it leads us to a better understanding of ourselves … and helps us to understand our personality.

 

However a lack of understanding of our motives … our actions … the events associated with them … causes a clamp around our passions … as if in self defense … and we wonder about the right and wrong … that brings a collage of issues … like a 20 car pile-up on the highway. It makes us wonder about the beliefs we have come to engender about ourselves … and the way we have responded to them.

 

It forms a pressure … that works into a persistent nag … and it throws up to the mind … the need for inquiry … and the desire to know for certain. It is then that the individual finds himself opening to names … terms … meaning … in the thoughts that we entertain … and brings a closer supervision to their contents. Its a stimulation of the passions … with fire … perhaps borrowed from life … in its search for answers that it has never stopped to inquire about.

 

When we respond to the examination of the issues … we are free of its pressure … its clamped nature … and the burning angst of disquiet that comes to occupy our attention … like a burn-out … that saps at our energies … and makes us lose contact with the vitality of life. In a man … it takes a toll on his feminine side … and loses the quality of spontaneity … merriment … and the carefree nature of life.

 

In the 100 years war between England and France ( 1337-1453 ) … the epitome of dissent came to rest on a young girl … we know as Joan of Arc. In the legendary quarrel between Siva and his wife … Sakthi … he burnt her with his flames of rage … and thereafter was reported to be near mad. The mighty Hercules was reported to have murdered his family … and thereafter met his own demise shortly thereafter. Each is an effect on the human disposition … whose effects manifest themselves in many different ways thereafter.

 

In each instance … a discernment of the causes … will bring us on a long journey … and create a new mind �" passion relation that was not there before. Its the way many of us first begin our experience … of inquiry into the nature of the self. Its strange to think how we have always kept the two apart … the passions for its faith … unknowing nature … and its flexibility of purpose. The mind … an acceptance of the physical reality … the inevitable … and the need to adapt. Imagine the novelty of its encounter with each other on the issues … when they come face to face … in a strange case of opposites attract.

 

Indic literature refers to the force of … Prakriti … or the attachment principle … inherent in the humongous scope of passions … that makes any inquiry … a lifetime's effort. It relies on the incredible complexity of the inquiry … to help form attachments … that are the basis of love … and relations in society. It points to the condition of love … as lacking in trust … and founds itself on the nature of the contorted passions … that the Buddhist refers to as … the wheel of samsara.

 

However in commencing the inquiry … a man follows through … life after life … to arrive at the complete understanding of the human condition … which is the only way in which … man comes to understand himself. And any encounter we face … between the mind and the passion … is a step … in the direction of full understanding some day. Its the silver lining of the cloud … that our aphorisms speak of … in our social engagements.

 

Its also the way … the mind distances itself from the passions … and vice-versa … in the long road … to tests the validity of each other' s position on the issues … for real. And if they fail the test … to discover a new way … they need to come back … and found a new relation. Its the design of the instruments of creation … in understanding our needs for certainty … beyond the simple failure in love … or being wrong in our reasoning. These are but mere practice.

 

The conversion of our experiences into expression … that is preserved as the nature of the being … produces an experience of transcendence … beyond the mortal coil … and introduces to the passions … a suggestion of its immortal nature … that regenerates … and is reborn … to seek its ultimate perfection of being. And when we are free of its clamped nature … it begins to see such possibilities of itself … past its normal duty of creating attachment in confusion. It responds to being free.