understand. You don't realize there's a better way to handle a situation one minute and then in the next minute you understand. So, what you didn't know didn't exist for you until that flash of insight. It's the same with one's inner self. We have the ability to transform ourselves. We have traumatic experiences that change us, but we can change our thoughts consciously following the patterns of thought in the seven resonant colors. Here is an example of how our internal perception guides our view of reality. Read the following coded statement. “1n or3dr to 5ee th15 u h4v3 to ch4ng3 5om3 l33t3rs.” How is it you're able to read something that has so many errors? You are not reading the words. The words are already in your head. When we read, we think we're taking what's on the page and we're 14 putting it in our head. But we have this automatic internal process of making the world have meaning. The challenge for innovation is to create new thoughts, a new perspective. Our current understanding of the world informs our perception of it, and changing this learned perception, which is the red level, requires something traumatic or blissful to challenge our paradigm. This is how we can find meaning in
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seemingly meaningless and tragic events. Allow yourself to let go of your egoic story and the desire to be angry or retaliate. To gain a better understanding, answer the following question: "How can I remain objective in order to learn from the event?" The Illustrated difference in Red and Blue Levels This quote from Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche ~ Non-Duality ~ Dzogchen Chapter 4 describes the blue and the red levels in terms of Buddha nature, essence (blue) and expression (red). The blue level is the true source of reality that is fulfilling. The other being the red level is empty in the pursuit of illusion once you have it. Therefore the pursuit of ego driven illusion is empty. The goal of the seven resonant color methodology is to close this gap. To dissolve the separation between reality and illusion and cause perfect union with divine reality. "We have one mind, but we need to distinguish between its two aspects, essence and expression, to understand this analogy for the relationship between the two. The essence is like the sun shining in the sky, and the expression is like its reflection upon the surface of water. The sun in the sky is the real sun. The reflection of the sun appearing on the surface
of water looks like the sun but is not the real sun. Let's call the sun in the sky, the Buddha nature, the unmistakable undiluted quality. The essence itself, the reflection of the sun upon the surface of the water, is an analogy for our normal, deluded thinking. The expression is that without the sun in the sky, it is impossible for a reflection of the sun to appear. Although there is actually only one sun, it looks like there are two. That is what "one identity with two aspects" means. The essence, the Buddha nature, is like the sun shining in the sky; the expression is our thinking." The blue, red, and yellow levels are called "horizontal" by Miranon because the kinds of activities that take place on these levels are restricted in the direction information and experience appear to flow. If you think of an ant crawling on a basketball, the horizon may appear horizontal to the ant and the ball may seem like an infinite space to move upon, but at some point it is possible to realize it is round and finite. It is the "change in perspective" (the white level) that is demonstrated in the methodology represented by the seven resonant colors.