In the name of God, we have reached the seventh article, and I present this article under the title "Separation and Reunion".

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Separation and Reunion: The Object-oriented individual attributes their mental findings in the Shaped Space to the object and reduces the obtained abstract concepts to the specifications of a particular object. However, the Shaped Space, from the observer's perspective, is continuously undergoing gradual or abrupt changes. Therefore, sooner or later, the Object-oriented person will experience a complete or partial loss of the presence of objects in the Shaped Space. Now, they are faced with separation from or longing for the object or objects of their desire. The characteristic of this stage is a feeling of failure, confusion, and emotional and mental imbalance, along with a useless attempt to return to or recover the desired Shaped Space. It is as if they are yearning for a view that they had previously expressed in hundreds of ways as being transient.

The Mind-oriented individual attributes the obtained abstract concepts to the formless space of their mind and, in the first step, acknowledges the instability of the Shaped Space. Thus, in the event of a change in the object or its absence, they will turn to their mind. They are well aware that after this temporary disruption of the Shaped Space, a new period of arrangement of objects will emerge. Nevertheless, the Mind-oriented individual will also experience separation or longing or a desire for reunion. Upon returning from the abstract space of acquiring concepts and entering the Shaped Space, they experience boredom and distress. However, this very pain of separation from the state of being and awareness leads to their liberation from attachments to physical forms and an ongoing effort for reunion.

Explanation of the Article

Our assumption in this article is that we place two individuals, one Object-oriented and the other Mind-oriented, in front of the same experience; both see a scene in which an object or objects are placed in front of them, and now both want to show a reaction to what happens in the scene. The key point in the space of this scene is the change of objects; meaning their characteristics are changing. You too have such an experience where the objects in front of you, the scenes in front of you, are changing; this change may be gradual or abrupt.

What will be the reaction of the Object-oriented individual, who always attributed the findings to the object? It is obvious that when they lose the scene, they experience a loss; they feel that the conditions are not what they were used to; a feeling of failure comes over them, they become confused, they lose that intellectual and mental balance they had. Most of these individuals continuously try, in any way possible, to return the scene to the initial conditions, and this effort is in vain. The great lesson these scenes teach us is indeed these changes; in different ways, they send us this message: we are not constant, the concepts you receive from us are what is important, we ourselves have no value to be the subject of your mental attachment.

In contrast, the Mind-oriented individual who places all their reliance on the mind and entrusts and keeps the obtained abstract concepts in their mind, very quickly understands that this Shaped Space has instability and one must not set their heart on the Shaped Space. So if a change occurs, with the assumption they have in their mind, they prepare themselves to place their reliance on the mind. They soon realize that these disruptions will be temporary, and each time a new arrangement of objects will face them; this very matter makes them able to review their own mental space in different arrangements and produce new thoughts. Individuals who are Mind-oriented also experience separation or the pain of reunion. Why? Because when they return from the formless space of their mind toward the Shaped Space, they see themselves in front of a scene that is not the previous scene; it becomes clear to them once again that they must return to their own mental space, because here there is no stability and no place for attaching to objects. So reminding themselves of these points introduces them to a familiar pain, named the pain of separation or the desire for reunion. They want to return to the very place which is their space of peace. Meaning a space where they can distance themselves from shaped attachments.

Summary

Does a Mind-oriented individual—someone we would like to live like—not experience confusion in the changes that occur around them in the Shaped Space? The answer is yes, they also experience such cases; the important point is the duration of stay in these confusions. For individuals who are Object-oriented, the duration of stay in confusions and mental imbalance is long; they do not want to believe that those objects and scenes they saw have gone aside and no longer exist; this very lack of acceptance makes the work very difficult, because they make a massive effort to return to those same Shaped Spaces. But an individual who is Mind-oriented relies on their own mind, has memorials in their mind, has kept the concepts there and gives the values to those concepts; so if they experience temporary confusion, the duration of stay in this period of confusion will be short. The best thing we can do is to transform into an individual who gives the greater importance to their own mind.