Explanation of Peirce Diagram
Explanation of Peirce Diagram
interested in using it. A Diagram that serves us for everything in life, including
learning.
And what are these problems in which humans are normally trapped? And
what are the traps by which we believe we solve them, what incarnation and
incarnation do we see that we have not solved? The concept of resolution in
humans is an illusory concept of which, furthermore, humans are not aware and
truly believe that medicine solved health problems, and economics and politics
solved economic problems. But we do not realize that the current problems are
a derivation of the previous ones, which means that the previous problems had
not been resolved.
What happens in life, in the mind, in the most structural part of the human
being, which is why there is a need, as a species, to tie together identical
problems and that, wherever it is born and born when it is born, the problems
are always the same? Each of us has to achieve something different in our
lives, beyond the Id (I), beyond our Identification, beyond the Self. The Greeks
said that there are only 4 plots for the novel: hate-love, life-death, wealth-
poverty, health-illness; In reality they said that no one has a new problem, when
someone manages to have a new problem, they create a new myth that shows
us problems that seem to come from somewhere else because they are
precisely not what we are literally used to. This discovery allows us to reduce
the weight of the backpack of our lives a little: such serious things do not
happen to us; and at some point in our journey we will have to solve really
serious problems and at that moment we will have grown, we will have learned.
To have really new problems you have to go through all these issues, over and
over again, until they no longer trap us. Either it is a design error, and in the
universe there are no design errors, or there is a superior wisdom in this rare
phenomenon in our life, which has an average of 70 years, between 3 and 7
years the prison of the Me, from which the rest of us will have to come out. That
is, 10% of the time of our life is to create prison and 90% is to learn to get out of
it. Of that 90%, 70% we use first to find out that we are in a prison; and 20% we
will use to learn how to get out of jail. This prison, the habitual thing, is the habit
that prevents us from finding our own, full life in which we decide and not
something in us decides how far we go in everything we do. When we start with
this hypothesis, our backpack becomes much lighter because from the outset
we begin to understand that we are part of the same problem that we are all
trying to solve. What does it consist of that which becomes a problem in our
lives? Very few people are willing to accept that the problems they have are not
so special, that since the beginning of humanity they are the same and that
when they are willing to solve them from this perspective they are just starting in
their own life, that is why this other path is called Initiation and the one who
does it, Initiate. An Initiatory Journey cannot be made without this break
consisting of confronting this reality.
When we think about circular time we realize that we do not have areas in
our lives. When we have a problem it is the same problem in all areas, it is just
that in some it has already manifested and in others it has not. And when it
manifests itself in the side area, we do not recognize that it is the same problem
that we had already talked about before. And if we apply Listening and listen to
both times, we also realize that our entire life is contained in a phrase and the
problem is contained in that phrase; that is exactly what our reality is about.
This is liberating, because if we actually solve the problem, we free our life from
that problem and every time that problem arises, we will be able to recognize it
and since we have already learned how to solve it, then our Self, which always
pulls us with the same , we are already beating him, because our self always
throws the same thing at us because he always succeeded with that. But when
he can no longer defeat us, the enemy changes his weapon and that means
that we have grown. Our self knows that it stops us with certain issues, for
example, when we reach an achievement it waits for us to fade it, but if we do
not allow it to do so we have gained ground from the Universe. The self will
come looking for us later, but that is what life is for, that is why it is called
Presence, that is why we must be in a constant state of stalking; At any moment
the enemy will jump, but we will eat that prey that previously jumped to scare us
or eat us. That is, when a phrase detects in the subtle (circular time) where the
problem that the person tells us in the dense (linear time) is created, that is, the
person tells us the problem in a dense temporality, but we have to listen. that
taking it to a circular key, that is, understanding that as the problem of your life.
And, furthermore, we have to see what we have done in the face of the problem
that we ourselves generate, because if we solve it we have solved our life. We
have to detect how far our self allows us to go, the limit it sets for us, to go
beyond the self, that limit. That is the Initiatory Path. And we have to corner
ourselves against what the self holds us back. That's why we have Listening.
And what problem do we have to solve? The same one that prevents us from
achieving the Result. To do this we have tools such as transference (Tan Tien),
transferring the problem to the teacher in our relationship with the teacher,
transferring the problem to our companions in our relationship with the temple
(to others, in the process of initiation or initiates). , and that is where it is
modulated when we recognize that we are facing that problem. The goal is for
us to recognize the problem, because we encounter the problem, that is, the
problem is for us to encounter, because the problem is a mirror of us. For this,
supervision gives us linear time to solve the problem and then shows us that the
same problem is circular in our lives. It's hard to learn to think like that. But it is
even more difficult to move between two times, between two realities. The other
reality (circular time) is the release from prison. When we are stuck in a problem
we are stuck in a circular problem, we need linearity to find out about that
problem. In martial arts there is a phrase “kindly throw the first blow at me
because I need to see where I am wrong.” That is to say, in supervision
situations are set up for the ego to take its hit; that is linearity, to find circularity
(the man whose women are always unfaithful to him, linear time, because he is
always unfaithful to himself, circular time). We require linear time so that circular
time can throw its arrow at us and show us what its arrow is, but we are not
going to solve it in linear time because the arrow comes from circular time,
because if we solve it in linear time, circular time will return to shoot his arrow at
us again and again.
For that we require some way, some map that teaches us to think with
both worlds at the same time, in linear time and circular time: in the West it is
the Peirce Diagram, which is a linear and circular map at the same time, where
we can locate linearity (the dense) so that the circularity (the subtle) is
expressed and what was expressed in the linear (dense) is not resolved in the
linear, it is resolved in the circular (subtle).
In other initiatory cultures there are other initiatory maps, such as the
Stone of the Sun, in Mexico, which includes 29 different calendars or times.
The Pierce Diagram talks about all the logic of the West put into a single
box. When we learn to move in the Pierce quadrants and recognize which
quadrant a situation is in, we can do it in both ways, linear and circular. For
example, in linear time one day we enter school (quadrant 1), we graduate as
professionals (quadrant 2), when we graduate we get a job (quadrant 3) and
when we get a job one day we will be able to buy our house (quadrant 4). And
does this work? Sometimes yes sometimes no. When we get linear time to work
the way we want, well we've got it done. But when it doesn't work, in the middle
of everything we enter the university (quadrant 2) but we don't have enough
money for the monthly payments, we start again (quadrant 1), then a
temporality that is no longer linear occurred. In the middle, what happened? We
get married (quadrant 2) and the money we expected to get from our profession
(quadrant 3) is given to us by our spouse (quadrant 2). What do we do? Are we
still heading towards what we wanted or not? Because here we have a circular
time; Suddenly we are in the place where we thought we had to previously go
through work (quadrant 3) to get there. Or for example, we receive our degree
(quadrant 2), we start working (quadrant 3), we raise the money, we are about
to buy the house (quadrant 4), but suddenly we get sick, we have to use the
money to heal ourselves, circular time, it bounces back. before. This
phenomenon is observed very well in the shamanic path. On the way to the
mountain if we take one step and then another and another, we will finally reach
the top of the mountain; This is linear time. But in the middle comes the wind or
the storm, it diverts us, the same thing that delays us can help us, because we
speed up our pace or the same wind propels us towards our destination. This is
circular time, which can be a great ally or can get us off track. Life has this
continuous double journey of a linear journey and a circular journey. We can
say: if the linear serves us, we do not need the circular. Well, linear works when
it works; We study, we graduate, we find a good job, we earn good money and
we will be independent. But in practice it is not like that; For example, currently
in Europe the current generation is the most educated in history and is the one
with the least work. Secondly, linear time, even when it works, is not the most
advisable, because it takes a long time, it takes a lot of energy, it takes a lot of
time, it takes many years of our lives to reach an issue. The thing is what to do
when we get to the point. We believe that life is about having a family, a job, a
more or less stable health, but to get there we spend so much energy, so much
of our life, that we have so little energy left to preserve or enjoy what cost us so
much. achieve. Very seriously, we have to understand that linear time promises
such great things, that when it fulfills them they are not so great anyway. That
is, in the first place, when he promises them, he often does not fulfill them: for
example, he promises us that when we get married everything will be as we
expected, then our spouses are unfaithful to us and consequently we separate
and then we are back together for like five years. before; What was verified in
reality is circular time, while what linearity promised us was not fulfilled. Second,
when what it promotes works, it is not as good as it could be if for that reason
we were seeing, while we were advancing and the issue was working, the
seeds of what circularity was already putting into play.
The Pierce Diagram allows us to use linear time as a pretext to set up the
circular problem, because the same diagram will allow us to do both: read the
problem that is set up in linear time and solve it in circular time. The Peirce
Diagram allows us to let the self assemble the problem in linear time, and as
soon as it is put together, we now know with what circularity we have to solve it.
We have to learn to read Peirce's Diagram in a linear sense and in a circular
sense, in both ways, because that is how life works, the two times come
together, what in linguistics is called synchronic axis (linear time) and diachronic
axis ( circular time) and both pass as we speak.
First we will locate the general Piercian guidelines. The Diagram tells us
that basically we have 4 problems: