The True Nature of Positivity

[Jonathan Mead]

Is positivity the same as desirability? I've always been confused about what being "negative" or "positive" really meant. What I realized is positivity and negativity don't really have any meaning within themselves. I posted a blog about this, I'd be very grateful if you were to read it and let me know what you think:

The true nature of positivity | Jonathan Mead

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I encourage you to read this thread in its entirety: Rambelings

I like your article and enjoy how you express your thoughts in written form.

Part of the problem with reconciling the natural preference we have for the "positive" and the natural aversion we have for the "negative" with the concept of oneness or nonduality, is that we assume denying one of these concepts, and not the other, is at odds with the perspective of oneness. Many feel they should both be denied, because obviously the concept of opposites is at odds with concept of nonduality.

But understand that when an opposite to oneness is conceptualized, the newly simulated reality will have opposite characteristics to the old one.

Coldness, the opposite of hotness, is the absence of heat.

Darkness, the opposite to light, is the absence of light.

Falsehood, the opposite to truth, is the absence of truth.

One exists as "substance" and the other exists as "lack of substance".

Lack is the main symptom of duality and separation.

If you keep bridging your thoughts from a belief in opposites, to a belief in nonduality, you will see that positivity feels good, precisely because it is a less "disjointed" or separated perception.

Subjectively, you have an intent/desire that is directed towards your experienced reality. Things that are entropic to your intent/desire, or that negate your intent/desire, will feel negative to you. Things that support your intent/desire, whatever it is, will feel positive. There is no negativity in oneness, but there *IS* positivity.

In the end, that which is termed "negative" is the thoughtform of separation and duality playing out, and that which is deemed "positive", is the thoughtform of unity playing out.

Desire, to me, is the positive awareness of new possibilities. Now, desire implies separation, because you would not desire an object if you were already joined with that object. The actualization of desire is expressive of the thoughtform of unity, but when desire is frustrated, it becomes the negative feeling of separation.

[Jonathan Mead]

Desire does imply separation. But more deeply, it is the desire of experience that is the cause of the desire of myriad manifestation. Life is essentially the desire of play, and in this I suppose you could say it is positive, because it is posit-ing something. But what is this "it" we speak of. =D