We are like tuning forks. A tuning fork has a handle and two prongs. The handle stays firm and relatively unmoving while its bifurcation, its twoness vibrates. (The handle vibrates up and down while the prongs vibrate back and forth.)
The handle is like the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. When in the Garden (and the garden is in us), we are like the Tree of Life, singular and powerful and clear, rooting and grounding while opening and receiving. We toss ourselves out of the Garden through our twoness: our male and female, our right and wrong, our us and them, our me and all else. The flaming sword that keeps us out of the Garden moves this way and that way. The vibrations of this duality are felt as anxiety, fear, restlessness, dissatisfaction.
Both realms, the realm of the handle and the realm of the vibrating prongs, exist as long as we are embodying. The trick is to open to the realm of the handle (and to who is holding it) while vibrating in the duality of this world. This is the spiritual path.
The handle is like the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. When in the Garden (and the garden is in us), we are like the Tree of Life, singular and powerful and clear, rooting and grounding while opening and receiving. We toss ourselves out of the Garden through our twoness: our male and female, our right and wrong, our us and them, our me and all else. The flaming sword that keeps us out of the Garden moves this way and that way. The vibrations of this duality are felt as anxiety, fear, restlessness, dissatisfaction.
Both realms, the realm of the handle and the realm of the vibrating prongs, exist as long as we are embodying. The trick is to open to the realm of the handle (and to who is holding it) while vibrating in the duality of this world. This is the spiritual path.
Beautiful, George! A tuning fork has been a metaphor for me before in terms of being in synch with universal vibration -- being Present -- but I had never considered it in this context before. Opening to the handle and who is holding it to relax into the duality rather than having this condition of embodying create fear and anxiety is extraordinarily timely for me. Thank you!
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