12-23-2016, 12:20 AM
*To begin to master the concept of mental discipline it is necessary to examine the self. The polarity of your dimension must be internalized. Where you find patience within your mind you must consciously find the corresponding impatience and vice versa. Each thought that a being has, has in its turn an antithesis. The disciplines of the mind involve, first of all, identifying both those things of which you approve and those things of which you disapprove within yourself, and then balancing each and every positive and negative charge with its equal. The mind contains all things. Therefore, you must discover this completeness within yourself.*
This is like the spectrum of thought, all those pairs of polarities the mind is capable of feeling/thinking/reacting must be clarified/recognized/discovered/understood, so that there are no 'nasty surprises'. So that we know exactly what/how we will think/react about a certain scenario, or working backwards we know exactly what we are dealing with in seeing what/how we are thinking/reacting, or how will we handle things with proper extent of polarity of a thought and its antithesis. Thus reducing/eliminating error/misunderstanding/emotional garbage, achieving true clarity/less distortion.
Question being what is the 'scale' of this completeness of spectrum in terms of the number of those pairs of polarities of thoughts we tend to/capable to think. Has anyone ever made a list and what is the approximate number? I made an tentative list of 30 and find it helpful. Am I making any sense at all?
This is like the spectrum of thought, all those pairs of polarities the mind is capable of feeling/thinking/reacting must be clarified/recognized/discovered/understood, so that there are no 'nasty surprises'. So that we know exactly what/how we will think/react about a certain scenario, or working backwards we know exactly what we are dealing with in seeing what/how we are thinking/reacting, or how will we handle things with proper extent of polarity of a thought and its antithesis. Thus reducing/eliminating error/misunderstanding/emotional garbage, achieving true clarity/less distortion.
Question being what is the 'scale' of this completeness of spectrum in terms of the number of those pairs of polarities of thoughts we tend to/capable to think. Has anyone ever made a list and what is the approximate number? I made an tentative list of 30 and find it helpful. Am I making any sense at all?