The Diagram

 It's the 5th day of a waning moon of the Kartik month of the Hindu Calendar. It's also called a Beaver's moon.

The Beaver who builds a dam just to survive the oncoming winter?

I woke up early in the morning thinking about a picture (a diagram) I saw in my head. 

I saw a diagram in my head.. Strange as it may sound but I could e plain it too. A circle with three dots in it... Or a round bowl with soil in which three beans symmetrically sit at the corners of the bowl each occupying an equal amount of space.. This bowl is empty and represents the pure soul.. as it exists when an individual is born. Experiences and interactions with the physical world fill this bowl little by little.. At first all that exists in the bowl that seems to be made of clay or earth is water. The bowl is slowly becoming filled with clear sweet water (childhood experiences).. What makes the water sweet is innocence. The child sees everything clearly through this water.. There's no ego, no intelligence, nor any mind. Consciousness and physical experience put one tiny seed in the bowl which splits itself into three and the three seeds are what can be described as the mind, the intelligence and the ego. They are connected through quantum entanglement and neither is more important than the other.. They can each coexist or perish.. together they nourish the medium in which they exist and make the bowl stronger. Life's experiences make the water in the bowl murkier by the years and help the three seeds expand and swell up before they are ready to sprout. To have a good life is to understand that the I in me exists not because of the ego alone but because of the mind, intelligence and ego combined. The intelligence is like the parent which gives birth to the mind and the ego and mind is like the parent giving birth to the intelligence and the ego, while the ego is like a parent who gives birth to the mind and intelligence. Each of them is the parent seed and each of them an offspring too for before there were three seeds in the bowl, there was no mind, intelligence or ego only a single atomic entity that split into three seeds. One creates desire, the other two fire and kindle the desires, helping the desires expand and limiting them at the same time. What we see as three seeds are actually three atoms of a single material seed which is not visible to the naked eye for when we see a person we see only the bowl which was formed by the mother's body held togeather by the fathers semen.. That is all the mother and the father provide.. The child comes into the world through them, not for them. Love is what we experience when we understand that the waste from our body created a beautiful form of life.. This life form does not belong to us even though it is created through the wastage from our body. That initial cup is a small little flimsy cup that gets strengthened from the sweet waters (memories and experiences) it holds within its fragile body. The parent's job is not to try and own the bowl but protect it from undesirable environmental forces that make the waters in this bowl murkier moment by moment. Thoughts, ideas, emotions, encounters, experiences and interactions with the physical environment is what make the waters murkier and help the three seeds or the single atomic seed with three sides to it's personality sprout and spread its roots in the murky waters and spread its branches in the open air. These branches not only add to the body and strength of the bowl but also shade other bowls that grow under its branches. As the branches expand, so do the roots... The mothers body that once formed the flimsy bowl or cup that held the seed now disintegrates and becomes a part of the roots and shoots. When the branches and the roots expand, the part of the mother that lives within the individual experiences the thrill of adventure, the father's semen which was once a glue holding the bowl together becomes mixed with the saps running through the roots, stems and leaves, powering its e pansion. The only thing that keeps and destroys our connection to our parents is the interactions and experiences we have with them... It forms our memories and thoughts like all the memories and thoughts formed by the other fathers and mothers we end up adopting in the course of experiencing life.. Genetic traits are learned behaviors yet the environment we exist within and the environment we learn from give us our identity, capacity to think and the ability to reason. So, our environment is what helps us expand these three traits and also limits our experiences. We who had our biological parents to be a part of the experience, are lucky. What we need to limit us is in this world is abundant - emotional attachments are just one of the things which limit us. And what helps us expand are detachment and the knowledge that every other creature in this world is growing from an ignorant cup made initially from its mother's body glued together with the fathers semen.. Neither of these two can support life forever. That is why we spread our roots and branches and transform. Death is nothing but the separation of the glue from the body. Attachment to old ideas makes us rely on weak materials that have long disintegrated and mingled with our new bodies. When we waste our lives, we only create unnecessary children. Once you have started thinking of yourself as a parent, it's hard to imagine yourself as a child for the earthen cup and the glue that first held your seed is long disintegrated and the seed itself transformed into a new body part. So, when we mourn the death of a parent, we don't mourn the death of the body, we mourn the end of a companionship we once enjoyed. Like the Bhagawat Geeta says, it's foolish to mourn the death of a body. The soul which formed the body had long ago begun its transformation into another creation seeking higher adventures... I guess that is what makes us lose interest in people.. When their soul no longer wishes to stay trapped in the body they identify with. When we interact with people, we learn how happy the soul is within the body it occupies and where the soul is seeking migration when unhappy.. If we can keep the physical body from distracting us, the soul of each individual can be easily reached. We get glimpses of it from the individual's desires and aspirations.. Their ego protects these ideas while  their mind lets it free. The intelligence regulates the actions of the ego and the mind, both of which have a tendency to become easily distracted and misguided.