As a playful yet profoundly revealing addendum to the *projection* / *reflection* post (Please read first/the circle with the dot *in the middle,* that dot being *Emptiness* of all projection and distraction/Perfect-Most *Balance*/Home of Universal Answers/The Nothing/*Empathic Energy!*):
Put a rubber band around a pen and tug on it. =)
The pen that you hold in one hand is the *Core* (*Emptiness*). The tugging of the rubber band with the other hand is your *spirit*X*soul* in action!
Movement ....AWAY FROM.... the *Core*/Emptiness (pen) is *projection.* (*Spirit* to dream)
Movement ....TOWARD.... the *Core*/Emptiness (pen) is *reflection!* (*Soul*-Shared w/All)
Notice the ~ stress ~ you experience, the *resistance,* relative to how hard you are pulling further and further away! That is the same kind of stress you actually experience in real life, along with your heart, and all your other organs, when you are moving away from your own inherent truth, as well as Universal Truth! All life, Existence, is movement away from the *Core,* (the Nothing, which has nothing to do with the conventional interpretation of "nothing," as we'll discuss along the way), into the Something. It is your *spirit* to dream and create for yourself, and to act upon those dreams and creations. But your *spirit* has to be ~ *balanced* ~ with your *soul,* your *remembering* your own inherent origins, so you don't get all tangled up and lost in your own inventions! This is important, because besides the stress of any of us individually, when everyone is getting all tangled up and lost in their own inventions, whether friends, family, town, country, world...we have a culture at war with itself! We'll talk much more about this as we go along.
Invertedly...
Notice the ~ relief ~ you experience, as you learn to lighten up and "let go," when you trade in some of your control for *trust,* as you return to your own inherent truth, to Universal truth, and toward all those Answers you are seeking! =) Meditation is a *letting go* that we will discuss later on, relative to what exactly it is, why and how to do it, what happens when you do meditate, and where it can ultimately take you! The world would be in a much better *place* if it would slow down and take the time to *reflect* upon itself more! Likewise, those friends, family, town, country, culture... Movement toward the *Core* is movement toward your soul, your own inherent origins. The *Core* (that dot *in the middle* of the circle) is also the Universal Soul of Everything, Everybody... SHARED at the *Core!* So, as you move toward your own inherent truth, you are re-aligning yourself with that Ultimate Universal Empathy that *Answers Everything!* Such an extraordinary *place* to be!
By the way, letting go all at once from a seriously outstretched situation, such that you've created a sling shot with your pen-ultimate dynamic, would be the sudden JOLT that is experienced, individually or collectively, when really profound life events occur.
Consciousness / Enlightenment would result in your living in the *comfort zone* of that beautifully unstressed /stress-relieved rubber band, a *balance* of *spirit*X*soul* in partnership with each other. An expression often used in Enlightenment studies is "zen mind, beginners mind," which means being Awake, *aware,* and living in such a way that, at all times, you are *remembering* the truth of it all and can readily return at any time to the *pinnacle* to keep yourself from getting all tangled up in forgetfulness, "beginner" being the *one grain of sand* first movement away from the perfectmost *Core.* It is the place of compassion and empathy/Empathy!
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