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Symbols of the Self – part one

January 12, 2009

by Gregory Lent

sapling1 What could be a visual symbol for growing up?

A tree, perhaps. It goes through all of the stages that people do.

A small helpless shoot, a sapling that needs protection, and it grows and grows until itself it gives protection …

The tree of life, the wish-fulfilling tree, the bo tree under which the Buddha sat, trees have served as symbols for many aspects of life, several of them spiritual.

For the next few posts I want to develop the ideas around symbols of the self. They are very useful for understanding ourselves in ways that simple analogies or metaphors cannot accomplish, because they bypass the mind.

The key to understanding the self is found in understanding awareness.

What would be a symbol for awareness? For the growing, blossoming, flowering expansion that is the growth of awareness in life?

The lotus. More. After i write it. Enjoy

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The tree of life, the wish-fulfilling tree, the bo tree under which the Buddha sat, trees have served as symbols for many aspects of life, several of them spiritual.

what is post-linearity?

linear thinking has been useful, but it is not enough for creating a life that fits within a holistic reality. causes are effect, effects are causes, and the rational and the logical are not enough to explain reality, without putting serious limits on possibility. i am not saying they are wrong, or not useful, i am saying they are not enough. we need a post-linear understanding.

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