Are all things connected?
Are you a part of nature? How are you connected to humanity? Do we share anything in common with the moment of the Big Bang?
You be the judge. Check out this VDO to find out clues!
Metaphysics
Deep dives into the nature of being
It Takes Two to Tango (from Encyclopedia CP)
one + one = ONE
-Jin Nua
Without knowing it we are participating in the cosmic whole forming dance practically every moment we’re in the company of another. For from the moment we simply share something in common we have created something larger in which we are than only a part –united through the central item we share.
And the centers that unite us are many. They might be a shared proximity or locale, clasped hands, a conversation, friendship, mutual respect, give and take, love, eye contact, and competition or cooperation for a desired objective. They can also be shared meanings, ‘identity’, and common purposes which are especially operative at larger ‘scale’ groupings (we’ll examine more on this later).
But in each case the sharing of common mental and physical ‘spaces’ does the same thing –it merges its participants into a larger single ‘organism’. On the level of two individuals such organisms are commonly referred to as friends, couples, acquaintances, associates, etc. but also strangers who perchance to strike up a simple conversation.
On larger scale groupings it is anytime people circle around the same object such as at concerts, rubber necking toward an accident, reading the same news, and around common rituals and symbols.
One plus one indeed equals one through the dynamic whole forging dynamic of the universe as reflected in the Center Ordering Principle.
Encyclopedia Centerpath – Series of Posts
Starting this week I’ll begin posting blogs related to my e-book, Encyclopedia Centerpath. See the first post here!
Each post will examine a different section of Encyclopedia Centerpath. We’ll start with Chapter 5 related to how humans group since it offers some of the neatest examples of how Centerpath relates to our lives.
I think you’ll enjoy Encyclopedia Centerpath and stand to gain a wealth of insight and knowledge. I encourage you ‘take in’ the subjects (approx. one post every two weeks) and share it with family and friends.
Finally—in preparation you may want to check out one of these Centerpath primers to jumpstart your Centerpath knowledge (Free Introduction to Centerpath or this Q&A to Centerpath). However even without an intimate knowledge of Centerpath you can easily follow the various mini-stories. Hope you find something to your liking!
Hone Alone
I hope you find the following excerpt from my book Awaken fun and inspiring.
“It’s nearly impossible to ascend mountaintops or journey inward to your heart if you’re continually distracted by others and pop culture. To arrive at new and enlightening destinations, you’ll need to take quiet time for yourself.
Sharing and being with others is one of life’s greatest joys. However, it also keeps us from getting to know ourselves better and from growing. This doesn’t mean you need to become a hermit, but it does mean that you will need to dedicate more time to yourself. To achieve this, make it a point to find quiet spaces and time just for yourself. Stop at a park on the way home and take a walk. Sit in a coffee shop and take notes or read a great novel.
The same goes for your interactions with pop culture. If you are continually engaged in the negativity of news and the competition culture, your mind will never find the time to stretch and relax.
To attain higher states of awareness, it’s recommended that you largely limit your ties to the machine. Turn off and walk away from the TV and the ridiculous hype and expectations it creates. Keep the competition culture at bay by drastically reducing your viewing of sports and competition TV such as the endless stream of reality based shows. Fill all your newfound time with more meaningful pursuits such as art, books, and walks in nature.
Overtime you will begin to feel the positive changes. You will begin growing again. You will start to re-experience the rich aroma of life. Take it in, and bathe in its glory. Take another step closer to becoming aware.”
How Does the World Work?
It’s time to test your knowledge of how the world works and is organized!
Please send me an e-mail (jinnua@jinnuablog.com) indicating your answers. All participants will receive a free copy of my Centerpath Paper entitled “The Centerpath Theory on Language”.
Those that get a 100% score will receive a free Centerpath e-book of their choice!
Subject of the Test: The Structure of Language
Hint: The center is where all things align and point towards.
Q1: What’s the center of a sentence.
A1:
Q2: Identify the center of a paragraph.
A2:
Q3: Identify the center of a chapter.
A3:
Q4: Identify the center of a book.
A4:
Q5 (Extra Credit Question): What’s the center of a word?
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Good luck!
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Celebrate in the City
The following excerpt is from a recent interview with Jin on methods city dwellers can use to get closer to nature.
Question: For those living in the city with high rises and very little open space, they can feel very disconnected from nature. What are some of the ways city dwellers can reconnect with nature?
Jin’s Reply: To reconnect with nature, you need to get closer to nature. Thus you’ll need to find pockets of nature in the city in which you live.
The best place to start is looking for trails and parks within the city. Check maps and do internet searches to find parks and trails—you might be surprised how many you find. If none exist in the city, look for some just outside the city or start a project within your city to clean up an area or start a park.
Even if you can’t find any parks near your house, seek out trees that line city streets. Spend time examining their forms and interrelationships since they possess most of nature’s wisdoms. All trees possess the qualities of fractals, symmetry, and returning to the source so let their wisdom educate and enthrall.
Because so many great artists derived their inspiration from nature, go to art museums as well. Seeing great artists express their awe of nature is also uplifting and another means to build an appreciation of nature.
Man’s creations of stores, buildings, roads and institutions reflect nature’s patterns. Studying how things are city structures are organized provides an interesting insight into man’s world, but also a nice reminder how closely we are connected with nature. To jumpstart your appreciation of this, check out my book Encyclopedia Centerpath.
We Must Do Better
If you don’t believe today’s stressed society (two parents working, ‘never enough’ expectations, loss of extended family support, etc.) is not having a real and long term impacts to our children’s mental health and future; check out this highly meaningful VDO.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgiqMQTfw1Y
Mixing medical findings, philosophy, and common sense; Gabor Mate explains the real reasons why society is ailing and how it’s effecting the neural development of our children….
Besides praising Mate’s genius, I also praise the brave ‘stay at home moms and dads’ for the truly noble and worthwhile contribution to not only their children, but also humanity’s future at large. Bravo!
The VDO is 40 minutes and takes concentration but it is infinitely worth it.
The Brawn of Branching
The following is an excerpt from my book “Centerpath Mandalas”. It’s got some pretty cool insights on the nature of being but also how your life fits into nature’s grand mosaic of being. I invite you to check it out.
It’s little surprise Buddha gained his awareness under the Bodi tree. For residing in their the sprawling geometry lie all the necessary clues toward understanding the various mysteries of the universe.
In fact Nature utilizes the wisdom of branching systems having fully capitalized on the robust and efficient form of arterial branching systems in her many natural, biological, and manmade creations. Trees, leaves, lungs, veins, arteries, skeletal systems, roots, rivers, family trees, organizational charts, parking lots, computer ‘folder based’ directory systems, roads and highways, all fall within the definition of branching arterial systems as the following Merriam Webster Dictionary definition attests “a natural subdivision of a plant stem; especially a secondary shoot or stem (as a bough) arising from a main or center axis”.
Also readily apparent in the form of branching is their dualistic nature –a characteristic dear to the universe. For across the tree’s center reside the dualistic upper branches and the lower. Forming a mirror image across the earth’s surface, these equal opposite counterparts complement one another with roots providing the anchor from which the upper portion can expand into space. The lower half providing the water and raw ingredients necessary for the upper half’s leaves to produce the necessary glucose (sugar) to grow the tree further upward and downward.
Finally through a tree’s seedling we can instantly recognize where all things begin –i.e. centers –and also see how beginning and ends are so intimately tied together. For from the seedling that began at the base of its main trunk, to the end point of its smallest branches where it flowers to produce the next generation seed that again falls to the ground, the cycle of life is perpetuated in the most splendid of ways.
You a Great Tree
See yourself rooted in the ground. Strongly anchored, deeply grounded, and in touch with the world and reality.
Through your veins stream water and nutrients –rivers as great and mighty as the mightiest delivering and distributing the stuff necessary to sustain life to all corners of your body. The various arterial branching systems of bone, nerves, muscle, vein, and artery working together to harmonize your body into a much greater whole that is you.
Now turn heavenward and feel the air and sunlight streaming though and into you. In touch with what is divine and magical you are a sentinel being as light as the ether and as free and free-spirited as the air and heaven above.
Dialogue with the Universe – How to be Happy
Be happy!
How?
Follow Your Heart!
How?
Listen to your inner voice, it has all the wisdom you’ll ever need.
How?
Stop thinking you know everything!
How?
Have faith in your natural intuition versus simply accepting society’s definition of what is important and right.
How?
Slow your life. Walk in nature. Surround yourself with high art. Reflect more.
How?
Get away from your television and I-device. Don’t believe in what you’ve been told. Accept that you don’t know everything and need to open your mind to other possibilities.
How?
Write out your new direction (by hand) on a piece of paper.
How?
Sit down at a table. Get a piece of paper and a pen. Write.
How?
Say to yourself you will make and take the time today.
How?
Read this message again and again until you take action—and take the first step toward being happy.
Time Stand Still
Once a day take the time to make time stand still. Whatever you’re doing take the time to stop, look, and listen to a friend, spouse, a child, a flower, a sunset–the magic of being. These form the little moments of bliss that precipitate in the space-time of our being, and last throughout eternity.