Life Symbolism pt.1 (The Boat)
Ok so everyone is constantly cultivating energetic structures through their thoughts and actions, and this is like the vessel that carries us through the world. The Boat. Why is this important? Because the nature of the structure you maintain through your day to day life, is the baseline of the things that ‘happen’ to you. Depending on what the thoughts, actions, habits, perspectives, interpretations are, we can build stable, unstable, fast, slow, big, small, regular, irregular structures. the direction we take day to day defines how this masterpiece or life’s work will look, feel and move. (Maybe this also points to cultivating structures over lifetimes — i.e. some people are born with more established structure and then continue or fine tune it through a series or karmic experiences. The patterns and forms and even objects, people, experiences that come into view in our lives are part of this structure, reflect to us facets of this internal structure, so that we ca begin to grasp and mould it into the vehicle appropriate to our direction and purpose in life, or appropriate to our essential nature.) Why is this important? Part of developing and refining this structure is in making choices in our lives. Another part is awareness — recognising elements and details in ourselves and in the world around us. When choices are in alignment with who we are and the things we need to develop in our lifetime, they fit together like a puzzle and form a cohesive set of mechanisms, or toolkit, that can manage life in a smooth and cohesive way (eventually). When our choices are all over the place, so will be the car we’re trying to ride on: wheels all different sizes, no floor, one seat, but it’s not the driver’s seat, doors that all open in different directions, etc. How can we learn to look at life in a way that allows us to see these structures at play, rather than just getting sucked into the immediate drama, or the surface level of meaning? This is the question that governs all spiritual teaching.