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Explanation of Chart No. 9
The reason for giving these three positions is for a better understanding of the VITAL CURRENT, expressed through form and position. EACH POSTURE HAS A DEFINITE POLARITY BY WHICH IT IS SO IN ITS EFFECT. This is generally overlooked.
When we lie under a green tree and look up through its shadowy leaves, at the sky above, the motor relaxing posture ensues instinctively and automatically. We clasp our hands behind the head and cross the knees loosely. "That is the life of relaxation." But why it is so, nobody has apparently analyzed or stated it exactly.
Here the reason is given as a natural, VITAL ENERGY POLARITY APPLICATION. When our own instincts prompt us to do these things, and we are pleased with them, would not further knowledge along that line be useful and interesting?
Figure 2 depicts a good posture for relaxing anxiety and emotional tension. It was used long before the advent of chairs and is still used a great deal in the east. In fact, stastics [statistics] show that the majority of the world's population still uses this posture in the absence of chairs. It is also (and perhaps was originally designed for that purpose) a philosophic posture for bearing the ills of the day with a confident faith in God's Providence.
Figure 3 shows a neuter [neutral] posture, used by sages and wise men for their deeper penetration into the Inner Mysteries of life. Here we merely point out the VITAL POLARITY of the posture, why it is so that this position helps the VITAL PATTERN OF THE MIND as a balancing effect. The same historical facts apply to both postures - figures 2 and 3 - so what was said about it under figure 2 is not repeated here.
The idea presented here is that the body can be put in a neuter [neutral] position of rest, the same as any machine. The act of standing still is anything but rest for the body. The same can be said about sitting on a chair. Even lying down has its phase of better positioning for complete motor relaxation and repair of tissues. These ideas are more or less startling until they are put to use, when we feel the difference and no further explanations are necessary. The ideal posture shown here, is one where the mind transcends the body in deep activity of concentration and inner absorption.
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