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You took 30 as clarify , iams girl ?
looking more carefully in that, I see it as a really nice illustration of the various interdependent relationships.
Very interesting !!!
Crossed posted, but hopefully my 30 clarification on your last post still applies
Makes the word freedom a net of its own. Even to be free of all nets is questionable.
One can not escape the net. The least we can do is to acknowledge that we owe our existence to it.
aha !!!
The dancing Shiva is enclosed within a circular mandala of flames (prabhamandala) shown on a flat, two-dimensional plane, while the gestures of Shiva’s arms and legs describe a circle in space, in three dimensions. With your imagination, you need to supply the fourth dimension — time — which cannot be expressed in the static image: if you stare at the image and let the dancer begin to move, he will start to whirl in a circle, in the direction shone by his left leg which is lifted up and moving towards the right, as is his lower left arm. In addition to the whirling body of the god, you can also see his locks of matted hair whirling around, unbound; Shiva’s hair plays an important role in the god’s iconography and also in the stories told about him.
So what we see here is a cycle, a circle, a whirling dance in which opposed forces are in perfect balance. To read the story of the forces that are both unleashed here and held in check, we need to look at Shiva’s arms (four of them) and his legs. They tell the story of creation and destruction which has happened not just once but over and over again, and not just in the world outside, but in the world within, especially within the hearts of Shiva’s worshipers. Statues like this were of course not originally intended for museums, but instead were venerated in temples and carried in processions during holy days in honor of the god, inspiring dances performed by his followers.
In Shiva’s upper right hand, there is a small hourglass-shaped drum, called a damaru, which provides the music for the dance, and which also symbolizes the act of the creation of the world through sound. The role of sound is an essential force in Hindu cosmology: the Sanskrit language came into being, syllable by syllable, from the sound of Shiva’s drum beating.
You may notice that Shiva stands upon something or someone, which is called ignorance. This being is sometimes depicted as a pig, which is interesting too in that a pig is associated with hex 4.
Just been digesting this thread to see what I can glean to help a client. I think that the examples Knot started with, the mutually destructive cycling self-sustaining relationship, has plenty in common with the cosmic interdependence and dance of Shiva. Common ideas: interdependent and self-sustaining.
The supportive work-community Iams_girl found reminds me of 30 describing my mother's church after Dad died. I can't remember if that one was unchanging, but there was the same sense of being 'upheld' in the woven fabric of the community. Interesting that in both cases something bad had to happen for the support to become fully manifest.
“Modern physics has shown that the rhythm of creation and destruction is not only manifest in the turn of the seasons and in the birth and death of all living creatures, but is also the very essence of inorganic matter and for the modern physicists, then, Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter. Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created different forms of visual images of dancing Shiva in a beautiful series of bronzes.
In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.”
I just used my little substitution add-on thingamabob to replace all the Louise's with Trojina .
I read almost all of that thread and never once did my unobservant self suspect anything. And yes, your memory is prodigious, and a little bit fearsome, to be honest .
(It was Yi! I asked about finding it, and got 30-unchanging encouragement. Then some trial-and-error - the key Google was "steve marshall OR biroco 44.2" - top result was a thread in which, amazingly, Val had written out the title of the lost thread. Google site search using the title listed a link to issue 41 of Hilary's old newsletter, which contained the link that worked at archive.org. (The thread does exist in the Clarity archives, but only the first three posts for some reason - none of Steve Marshall's comments.))
(The 30uc, by the way?!...not just encouragement, but "Clarity" - something to do with Hilary's business, other than the forum. Helped me recognize that the newsletter might matter. Isn't that splendid?)
I am thinking of buying a property in a different region, renting it out for awhile, and eventually moving there. I identified a specific area where I would LOVE to live. Every time I walk around that area, which is very green and rolls down gently towards the sea, my heart grows wings and I feel elated. I feel infinite freedom and possibility, liberated.
30 describes how the fire is dependent on the fuel, so perhaps 30uc can say 'it all depends on caring for the cow, looking after the project, feeding the dream' and so on. It all depends on something ? It isn't a given. Fire won't happen without fuel.
Noting that Wing calls 30. SYNERGY which means two separate things or events together creating something bigger than the sum of the parts. With synergy the two things are not necessarily related or consciously working together. For example you might be buying a lottery ticket and at that moment you see numbers on a clock. You play those numbers and you win! The two events - the numbers on the clock and the winning numbers for the lottery - didn't cause each other but somehow they seemed connected to you and you won. Perhaps with 30. Synergy the message is that it is up to the observer to to make the connection?
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