And One is All

Bit of a lazy schlep tonight, so no linking. However, in light of Richard Bach's line about teaching best what we most need to learn...

Hubs, wheels, spokes, rotations. Since none of us alive today have known life without a wheel, we all understand these basic words. No definitions needed this time.

We adults also understand (adults used loosely) what it means to have balanced wheels, say, on cars. Some of us understand what it means to have a bicycle wheel trued (sp?), that is, putting the spokes to balance. I bet they had to deal with that with wagon wheels, too, but that's something else entirely.

Good, balanced and trued wheels rotate smoothly, evenly. Until they're tested on a hub.

Hub's the joining point, hopefully in the center of the wheel, regardless of spokes. Given hub's centered, wheel's balanced and, if spoked, trued, the wheel continues to rotate smoothly.

Now, apply those to life. You are hub, spokes are others, or issues, that mean something to you for one reason or another. The outer rim that touches the ground is where your attentions are focused for an instant, in the grand scheme of Time (which is not a liar, I've found, but again, another whole something to write on some other ...well, time).

When centered, the spokes trued - that is, when one is solidly in Self, keeping boundaries with any and all outside of Self, there can be balance. It's when that wheel rotates, or turns, that can distract us, pull us from the hub, and have instead of a rotating wheel, a stuck-in-the-ruts wheel while we as Selves go running around the outer rim wondering what to do to fix the issue.

Where'd I get this from? Friends, initially. Give me a minute and I'll tell you what day I first heard the idea. It was early summer, maybe so late as July. Then again through the library's copy of the interviews between Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell, in which the word, "bliss" is correlated directly with the word, "hub." Campbell said, "Follow your bliss" without doubt, but instead with complete trust.

Maybe the spokes are the barriers themselves between Self and the rim - that is, the world outside of Self? I think so. Like it better, anyway.

So, there is this metaphor. Then there is this Oneness that seems to lately be running through the collective consciousness (that was Jung, I think, and nothing to do with Rand's ideas on the same term). What does this really suggest?

That all are one. Securely based in Hinduism (and likely other -isms and -ologies), the idea is that the entire Universe and all of the components therein, from galaxies to stars to land and water and bugs and aliens (really?) are not separate beings, but only the separate aspects of the One being, in shapes and ideas and words and definitions that our limited consciousness(-es) can comprehend. If I remember correctly, it was Freud that made it big with all that about the subconscious mind and the id and the ego and all that. What if there is truth in this "One" idea? Does that mean we have to lump together both angels and devils, so to speak, both on earth as it is in ...Igiveup WhereElse?

Indeed, it does. And now the next big term enters here, "duality." Left-right, good-bad, night-day, dark-light, right-wrong, life-death. Yep, balance, or so many of us have been lead to believe.

But in One, there is All.

And in Self, there is One.

And in Hub, there is Self.

And in Balance, there is Hub.

And in Energy (rotation), there is Balance.

And in Life, there is Energy.

And in Truth, there is Life.

And in Trust, there is Truth.

And Truth is Singular.

And Singular is One.

And One is All.


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