The Universal Compass offers relationships with movement creating prosperity. These factors are spring, growing, harvest and trial. Focusing on spring and harvest, these are the principle factors of how we grow from infancy to maturity.
Often people think finding the midpoint between to opposites is yin-yang; however, the movement is a cycle working in continuation from past to future. Spring is a time of planting seeds, while autumn is a time of harvesting plants. Every year farmers maintain a balance between the seasons in order to have abundant crops.
In the spring Farmers must have seed to plant, which means Farmers save seeds during harvest. In the spring Farmers spray blossoms with poison so fruit is free from worms, yet worms fertilize soil and protect against tree killing germs.
In winter the rain and snow pours down, yet the ground is too cold to grow plants. It is important to save water so plants survive hot, dry summer.
In spring the ground is fertile and air is moist. It is the time to plow fields in anticipation of harvest. In autumn it is time to reap the land to eat and store food while anticipating spring.
In a person's life they relive this cycle many times. They think about opportunities and when opportunities appear they prepare. Eventually past preparation with experience and education makes preparation easier when new opportunities appear. Each cycle builds thoughts, experience, skill, money, power, prestige, reputation, clothing or food even when gaining knowledge to save resources because opportunities are outside their current abilities.
Finding balance is wonderful. It makes life easier. In the story of "Good Tree" it is easy to imagine the movement building upon itself and moderating events. It is not three static points. It is two opposites changing directions as they intermingle through the yin (brightness) and yang (darkness).
Imagine a Nice Person. They battle Mean People by being nice. Nice is the opposite of mean, yet they continue to attract Mean People. Eventually Nice People become mean to survive. Everyone always takes everything away. They either succumb to sadness or begin to fight to regain everything lost.
Suspicious of Nice People, it also possible the more they give and the more they submit to other people they gain knowledge and endurance through torments. If personal sacrifices begin to hurt they feel entitlement to defend themselves with a skillful burst of aggression to inflame Enemies.
A Mean Person is driven desire. They understand the will take from others to satisfy needs. They give themselves many entitlements and continue with life until only Nice People are around. Only Nice People listen them. Sometimes Mean People go to jail. With People who are ultimately giving surrounding them they succumb to establishment and let conceit disappear.
There are several people who would say this is wondrous. "Nice People should always remember to team up against Mean People so their numbers are always greater." Yet this ignites ire because of judging a way-of-life as wrong, instead of, different.
Despite what assumptions, conceit often gives People the courage to attempt new things and strive to achieve greater levels of success. According to Freud, Mean People want to be caught. In their wrongness want to accomplish right. The outer expression of wrong doing is to fix Other People's deficits. Perhaps they tried being nice, yet warnings are dismissed. Feeling anger build inside resentment becomes aggression. This aggression builds until caught. Then everyone sees methods to resolve issues or become mean until it ends in exhaustion.
Now it is possible to see many intersecting lines with cross-sections of opposing forces creating a movement of greater to lesser degrees of intensity. Imagine a long metal bolt and a screw threader. The screw threader has fulcrums of equal length extending on either side of the bolt. Touching either fulcrum on the ends, furthest from centers, causes the screw threader to spin faster around the bolt. Touching the screw threaded in exact center cause no movement. A half rotation places the ends in the contrary position symbolizing moving from yin to yang or yang to yin.
This article is the yin to "Chess verses Life." Spring and Harvest builds (monotonous work). Chess verses Life destroys (hostile competition). In the middle we find building skills and wealth while engaging in fruitless activity and destroying the past to make improvements.
During winter the food is eaten and it is time to plant seeds in the fields. I take comfort in knowing everyone is a Collective Group. Even when Individuals or Mobs reach higher extremes (spinning wildly between opposing forces so quickly it creates a contrary appearance) Other People are also spinning as rapidly to create balance. Even if finding myself acting or thinking in extremes there is balance, though finding methods to the center creates a peaceful life.
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