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This reminds me of the Buddhist image of "the Buddha breathes out and the worlds come into existence; the Buddha breathes in, and the worlds cease to exist", and so on, ad infinitum. (And we're all the Buddha, or buddhas.) I've always found this image very comforting and grounding.In general, I think of 24 as a return inward, just as when breathing inward. Life (yang, strong line at the beginning) reenters your body, and you go on living.
But that can get a little tricky in application. Let's say you are returning to a job or to school, or to a relationship? Those are outward movements. Ah, but from their perspective, you are returning to them, which is an inward movement. You are the air.
What are/is "we"? A matter of perspective and perception, which leads to ...I find the same squiggly quality with conscious/unconscious represented by yang and yin, as to which is which. Are we living in darkness or in light? Do we return when we sleep or wake? When we die/depart, are we born or dead?
So we could say the turning around entails a shift in perception, which extends outward (or appears to extend outward, depending on where our perceptual focus is residing at the moment) into the world of material existence, of time and space.What matters in 24 is turning around, not which way you're facing. The word "repent" means to turn around, sans the moral judgment.
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).