People also have a height in their hearts, just like they have a small self in their hearts, standing on some illusory stairs. In addition to thinking that they have a height in their hearts, people also put others (even parents, siblings) on the same level. A height difference occurs between different heights.
People "position themselves" and "understand others" by grasping this difference in height. The point is that everyone subconsciously believes that the self in their hearts is also standing on a certain plane, just as the self in reality is standing on the earth.
a support. The composition of this support is much more complex than the reality. Because everyone has different support, some people translate it as "spiritual pillar". This translation is for the surface. Although this object is invisible, it separates something, and is separated from the above and below. This translation imagines some kind of downward pressure plane, and this "spiritual pillar" is intended to withstand this pressure.
What we are talking about is the illusory face located at the lower level, whether it is the inner "ego" or the "spiritual pillar" that must exist based on its existence. That is to provide a place to stand.
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It is hard for people to imagine what kind of situation it would be if the whole person was floating. Until the development of aerospace technology, people experienced gravity in outer space, and also passed on the experience and experience of human beings "suspended in the sky". Even so, humans are essentially relying on a plane that can be supported.
In our context, the words "drift", "float" and "float on the surface" are all secretly wrapped in a layer of sadness. We subconsciously always long for "having a support". Because of the existence of the gravity of the earth, we are "sucked" on it, and at the same time, because of our own mass, we feel that we are "pressed" on the ground.
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The earth has supported us, so that we will not fall. We can find the ancients' reverences of "earth", "earth", "earth elements" in various cultural species. This reverence has been written into myths and has even been portrayed as the basic elements that make up the world. Such as "Heaven and Earth", "Gold, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth", "Earth, Water, Fire and Wind", etc.
We then take it for granted that there is also somewhere in our hearts where we can stand. And such places should naturally be as stable as the real land. This is naturally rooted in our ignorance of what is supported in reality. After all, we are supported as soon as we are born. No matter which thing it is, as long as it is on the earth, gravity will make it "supported".
Picture source: "Four Elements" in Western myths
This inner feeling of being supported is also called: "sense of down-to-earth" and "sense of reality". According to our daily context, it is like "The big stone hanging in my heart finally dropped", "My heart is in my throat", "I think this person is very down-to-earth and steady", etc.
