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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2024 2:48 pm
A person who steps on your foot will elicit different reactions depending on their perspective: if you are a person of the sky, you will react one way; if you are a person of the earth, another way; and if you are a person “underground”, you will react in a third way. The event is the same for everyone, but everyone perceives it differently. For example, imagine a boy gives flowers to a girl. If the girl is from the world of the sky, she will see it as a miracle and magic, and believe in princes on white horses. If the girl is from the material world, she might think that he wants to buy her affection, as this is her perception, her illusion. It’s just how things are in her world. And if she thinks this way, she herself is like that and thinks about people in that way. Naturally, she will interpret this gesture accordingly because it is customary in her world. If she were from the world of the third angle, she might think he is a maniac with dark intentions, because in a harsh world, people shouldn’t give flowers; if they do, it’s a trap or dangerous. See how the perception of the same gesture can vary? It’s not about the boy or the flowers but about the angle from which the girl perceives him. This is how it all works. By understanding the mechanisms of the three worlds, you free yourself from them and move towards liberation from them forever. It might seem difficult now to constantly control where you are connected and disconnected from, but in the future, this will not be the case. Don’t worry. In the future, a person should eventually develop the state of an observer – that is, the fourth angle. This observer position is where you see interactions with the world and people without being caught up in the illusions of the three worlds. You still see these three worlds from the outside, and you might feel the transmission of illusions from these worlds, but you know that these feelings are just background noise from this world, that world, or that one, and you don’t succumb to them because you know they aren’t your own feelings. You also understand that people from World 1, World 2, and World 3 see and react to you differently, and you no longer hold grudges against them because you understand them. Thus, you recognize that since there are three worlds, you need to communicate with them in three different languages. For example, a girl from World 2, the world of the earth, shouldn’t be given flowers because she might think you’re trying to buy her affection, given her skewed perception. In contrast, where there is no intellect but only the heart, a girl might accept flowers and respond well because she is naïve. There’s also the dark world where people might immediately think you’re a criminal for giving flowers, even though you only intended a kind gesture.