A negative silhouette is the best example.
Everything that something is, if you consider it, is really a summary of everything that it is not.
Think of a whirlpool.
A whirlpool is surrounded by water, which it itself is as well.
The difference is that the whirlpool is not linear current, but twisting current.
It is essentially everything that is not any other form of water movement.
A description of what something is, is a .zip file of everything that it is not.
Not so much remove distractions.
Instead, stop seeing distractions as such and instead focus upon them and find how they are a part of your nature.
The currents in the water that move against you, they seem like distractions from how you may want to move.
But instead of trying to ignore them and get around them; focus upon them, see how they are a part of how you move in that water.
Then you can use them as part of your motion; not as a distraction or obstacle; but as a partner in league with the rest of the movement.
Including the distraction of distractions.
So kind of, but I do not think in such terms.
No, there’s no discussion referring to nurture vs. nature because I hold both at once personally; not one or the other.
And they so do recursively.
Essence is an idea, as I wrote.
It is a means of categorizing.
Nature, on the other hand, always implies motion; life.
The reason that I brought it up as such is because when you step into concepts of essence, spirit, soul, nature, etc… many people tend to suspend time when conceiving of the idea.
Thinking of this thing as a solid state.
The point of Self Nature is that we are not dead objects of thought on a page in a book somewhere.
We are a moving thing which is alive; we are not an essence, but a nature.
It’s not regarding nature/nurture, but moving vs. not moving.
Essence is an aspect of nature; yes; nature on the other hand is more than essence as the word essence does not refer to a living thing, but a moment of a thing; a form, a basic form, or the core concept of a thing.
It does not refer to a moving and living thing as nature does.
The nature of you is…__________
It’s not intended to create a separation.
It is intended to be as you think; holistically.
The reason I wrote, Naturally, and not “as is different than else/sets you apart from others”, is because your nature is going to inherently include other natures you move with, against, and along in life.
Your nature is partially defined by other natures all around you.
Your nature isn’t separate, but unique.
Like a wave in water.
That wave is not separate from all other water around it, but it is unique to being that specific wave.
Exactly.
This is why “soul” was brought up as to a form of concept that is implied by the term Self Nature.
I did not wish to use “soul”, however, because it has several preconceived ideas upon it that make articulation difficult; and Self Nature, once described briefly, is incredibly exact in meaning as it is used in the text.
You could say it another way, “How would Jayson describe the human soul? Jayson would describe it as the human Self Nature.”
Basically, yes.
In this perspective, it would be death.
Even if you think of things after this life, they are moving.
Not moving simply means not existing at all.
And indeed, that is exactly the idea; moving with the waves to reduce the effect of imbalance.
Eventually, your “sea legs” come about and you learn how to balance with waves as if they are perfectly level ground.
Akin to this is the idea presented.