Bad Inspires the Good, Good Aspires to Bad

The nature of the mind – Good or bad?

A constant conflict between evil (black figure) and goodwill (white figure) characterizes the innate nature of any conscious being, as well as the innate nature of every other element in the realm of relativity (the chess-board like planes of existence).
The figures are symbols of the good and bad as tendencies of the conscious mind, as well as the actual perpetrator and subject of the tendencies’ outcome, respectively.
The figures are transparent as a symbol to the more superficial nature of the upper layers of the mind, hence consciousness as opposed to what lies beneath it, as revealed by any worthy spiritual path.

Even when we had already made the conscious choice of evil (the bitten primeval apple) we are not whole and peaceful with that decision and a conflict between the part which have already expressed evil and the part which aspires to amend and give expression to the goodwill, starts stirring up in our minds (head posture opposed to hand posture of white and black figures). The conflict reflects the doubt concerning goodwill and the shamefulness and blamefulness of evil (the fig leaf upon the black figure).

Ignorance: Bad, Divinity: Good

Deepening spiritual awareness begets the insight, that where there is no conflict there is one of two things: lack of awareness or divinity, and that divinity is tremendously scarce. The deeper layers of consciousness, or the sub-conscious are busy with constant conflict which we mostly experience only as a vague and disturbing sense of unwholesomeness, or a ‘gut-feeling’ of something which is not quite all right, or their opposites. The deepening of spiritual awareness gradually reveals these vague feelings and elevates them to the level of a lucidly aware everyday experience of acute self-criticism, which eventually culminates into highly developed moral standards.

The frequency of reality

At the deeper level, the whole set – the human consciousness, the moment of the Creation of the universe and the universe itself, hence life, space and time – is a symbolic expression of the absolute reality. The physical universe and existence are merely a projection and realization of different energetic frequencies generated in our minds, and which correlate to the types of purities or impurities we generate by our thought and emotional patterns.

The complexity of the human psyche is infinite and its depth is infinite as well (symbolized by the secondary planes). It so appears that the sub-conscious is more real than the conscious, since it is the embodiment of what we truly feel and think (the non-transparent figures). Hadn’t I personally undergone changes in the way I experience and perceive the world, I would have found it hard to believe that there was actually a real chance to make a difference… Vipassana.