Where the Apple Falls

[Blwu Star]

What really prompts some people to cling to the tree, most to venture out and back to the tree and a few who go out and never return? Is it destiny, coincidence or choice?

55.1.3 > 16

 

[my_key]

55 <> 16

'Receiving the Mandate' through ' Delight'

What really prompts all people is that they receive an authoritative command or order from on high and they then follow through and take appropriate actions. Their action is unique to them and they will follow the path in a way that they think will provide them with the best opportunities to meet and enjoy their future in the manner that the mandate has directed.

... or it might mean something completely different.

Good Luck

 

[hilary]

We could really use some examples of the kind of thing you mean if we're to talk about this one tomorrow...

 

[Blwu Star]

55 <> 16

'Receiving the Mandate' through ' Delight'

What really prompts all people is that they receive an authoritative command or order from on high and they then follow through and take appropriate actions. Their action is unique to them and they will follow the path in a way that they think will provide them with the best opportunities to meet and enjoy their future in the manner that the mandate has directed.

... or it might mean something completely different.

Good Luck

Not realistic. We were born with free will to choose. Authoritative implies a created slave on a mission. That by observation is not the case for most. The tree is where we originate from in terms of physical location such as birth spot or family activity. Some never leave the place they were born or raised. Do they just decide to not choose without venturing out due to feeling too secure with "home".

Some venture out and return eventually to that origin or sense of secure familiarity maybe with a sense of deep roots or just felt the world was too scary. The third option is that some leave and never return.

What is the motivation that is more common in these situations? Are we destine in where we end up in life or are there dysfunctions more likely involved which comes from a born fear to survive? Not wanting to be a sitting duck. Some like to hide in a fort. Do we "settle" where we feel most able to survive?

There are situations that if a person feels acutely bored with a location of "where they grew up" and they will leave just to move someplace else (run from) because they feel any place is better than home. Do they feel more peaceful away from traumatic past experiences elsewhere (or vice versa). Some get hooked by a particular place due to what purpose they find that place fulfils them initially and just get stuck unable to motivate another move somewhere else. Some people just rove forever not wanting to feel trapped or confined (or bored).

The question for maybe all cases is there a common pattern to their choice of final living (or ending place). I don't think anything is random and humans could be just destined wanderers (or rooted trees themselves) or just refuse to settle down or move away. Laziness or restless? The lone bird vs the human mountain. Enjoy better what you go to rather than what comes to you.

 

[my_key]

Hi Blwu Star

I'm just wondering if this is your opinion from before you asked Yi, or your opinion as a result of your contemplation and interpretation of the wisdom that Yi has invited you to consider from the reading.

Your 3 scenarios align with different aspects of free-will choice. I chose to word this term, whatever it may realistically mean, as 'appropriate actions' and further express the notion of actions that are unique to each individual. Remember, as well as perceived positive or negative actions, when someone decides not to act that is a free-will choice too.

You use the term motivation as if it comes from an internal source. One definition of motivation is that the term refers to a process of inducing and stimulating an individual to act in certain manner. So, you could infer the stimulation comes from outside as an 'authoritative command' and even see this as being similar to 'Receiving a Mandate'.

The common pattern that defines their action is either through modes of reaction or response: one knee jerk, the other considered. Whichever mode is engaged the free-will actions (note: reactions might easily be seen as not being of free-will; more auto-pilot. ) that people choose takes them either away from their fears or other negative constraints or alternatively towards a general sense of higher safety and greater fulfillment that increases their positivity. Either stimulus /choice moves the individual towards a state of increased relative joy.

I still base these comments within the sense that the reading, 55 <> 16. makes for me and I have no issues with you making a different interpretation to the one I have offered.

Good Luck