My state of mind at any given moment is an equilibrium determined by the gravities of the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual nodes of experience.
For example, if someone jabs me with a sharp object, I immediately feel pain and my state of mind zooms toward the physical. Instinctively I move away from the source of the pain, then look to see what caused it. Now my intellectual and emotional nodes engage. I hate pain, so right away I am angry. That anger might be quelled if my intellectual interpretation of the event contradicts the instinctive reaction. For example, if the person jabbing me happens to be an old lady, carelessly managing her umbrella in the lineup for a bus, I might laugh instead of commenting sharply. I will be even more inclined to 'forgive' if I have developed my spiritual capacity for placing individual instances into a larger context.
The weight of all these stimuli pull me towards an equilibrium different from my initial response to any event. The Tetrahedron helps me see that my conscious equilibrium can be shifted - that I can learn to respond differently to things that happen in my life, and to better understand the responses of those around me.
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