Spiritual, a word that everyone knows and whose meaning is usually interpreted as enthusiastic. However, when you see that this word falls apart into two separate words, namely mind and temper, and seems to contain two contradictory meanings, but also from a very different, more spiritual point of view, it is time to go deeper into the meaning. Below I try to explain what I mean by this dualism that is apparently inherent to this word. Double dualism because first the word consists of two opposing words that together form a unity and secondly because that unity has two opposing meanings and is actually polysemantic.
Let me start with the first. With the word mind, I myself think primarily of that faculty within every human being that is usually understood as his or her mind, the ability to approach existence rationally and a little less often to our connection to some common God is called, although hardly anyone knows what is meant by it, once the limitations of the dogma of a church or religion have been seen. Both meaning groups are experienced more positively than negatively, at least in our Western society, although this is also subject to personal development of life experience, spiritual formation, so to speak. That is quite different from the experience and the associated appreciation for the word drift. Drifty is rarely experienced as beneficial or useful, although this word is dual from the perception of meaning. Someone can be passionate about something, so angry, maybe passionate or someone can be temperate, as character trait or temporarily because something irritates him or her immeasurably. Well considered, it is the difference, the inseparable contradiction between being and doing.
You might note that the way the subject is discussed in this blog in the text above is enthusiastic. The word group enthusiastic is an antonym in this case and the words spirit and temper are each in itself hyponyms, at least in this approach. In my reasoning is tantalizing a homonym, like for example the word poor that is although I have not been able to find confirmation on the appropriate places on the almighty internet.
Perhaps my feeling that lies at the root of experiencing the word passionately as a homonym is inspired by the meaning of to drift as a verb in the English language: drive or drive away or move aimlessly. It is also the personal experience with my mind probably that triggers this thought. My mind may or may not be willingly carried along in a thought or feeling of an idea or experience, but can also surely, especially in my younger years, sometimes to a point that the point of departure and the final point of arrival seem to have nothing to do with each other. Kind of like this statement.
The original idea for dealing with this subject, namely the word frost, if I may call it that, has not brought me much further than a description, of which it is still unclear to me which of my blogs it fits. However, it has become clear that it pertains to the dual Western experience of being and doing. Perhaps what I mean by this becomes clearer when I say that in my opinion, which is perhaps very stereotype, the job for the so-called Easterner is to be and do. I hope to think with this haiku, and even feel and set and let go to wander for yourself and perhaps become enthusiastic about the meaning of words and language in general.
