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title: "Axis and Spheres of The Path • Harmony, Clarity, Presence (IP001)"
heading: "Axis and Spheres of The Path • Harmony, Clarity, Presence (IP001)"
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updated: "2025-12-30T16:48:00+00:00"
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url: https://ananda.icu/talks/into-the-path/ip001-axis-and-spheres-of-the-path-harmony-clarity-presence
description: "We orient to the most basic bearings on the path. Your axis of two poles — between emptiness and fullness, for your liberation and fulfillment. Your three spheres of concern — for harmony, clarity and presence — from purity, recognition and reflection. These shape the basic lay of the land as we continue into the fuller map for the path."
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**Words:** 475 ⁘ **Length:** 02:52 min ⁘ **Created:** 2025-12-28 ⁘ **Updated:** 2025-12-30

 We orient to the most basic bearings on the path. Your axis of two poles — between emptiness and fullness, for your liberation and fulfillment. Your three spheres of concern — for harmony, clarity and presence — from purity, recognition and reflection. These shape the basic lay of the land as we continue into the fuller map for the path.

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**As we enter the path**, let's start with an orientation to the broadest and most basic bearings. The two poles and the three spheres.

The **two poles**, _emptiness_ and _fullness_, are the axis of our being and becoming. The _fullness of becoming_ is one half of your story. The churning of every potential, the closing of every loop. The reconciliation and harmonization of your manifest existence. The other half is the _emptiness of being_, your release from the prison of permanent subject assertion in an ever-changing flux of reality. The release of your awareness from a habitual matrix of conditions.

When the poles of _emptiness_ and _fullness_ meet in the middle of your path, there is both consummation and liberation. This is the great work of alchemy at the beating heart of the path. These are the **two poles**. The vertical axis. Your tethers to heaven and earth. Above emptiness — and below fullness.

Then into the **three spheres**, three broad fields of concern, conducive of _harmony_, _clarity_ and _presence_. The sphere of _harmony_ is rooted in _purification_ and concerned with ethics and reconciliation. The sphere of _clarity_ is rooted in _recognition_, concerned with insight and discernment. The sphere of _presence_ is rooted in _reflection_ and concerned with depth and contemplation.

With _purity_, there is fair selfless engagement, balanced principles of operation, leading to _harmonic existence_. With _recognition_ free of distortions, discernment between truth and illusions, insight into the underlying nature of all things, we reach _unprecedented clarity_. With _reflective_ absorption, there is depth of experience and contemplative wisdom. We enter the fullness of _authentic presence_.

These are the **three great spheres**. Rooted in _purity_, _recognition_ and _reflection_. Leading to _harmony_, _clarity_ and _presence_. These are not three silos in separation. The three spheres overlap as they orbit the axis of fullness and emptiness in our consummation and liberation on the path.

Then, in short, the emptiness of being and the fullness of becoming for our tether. The three spheres, leading to harmony, clarity and presence, for our fields of engagement. The two poles and the three spheres, for your basic bearings, as we continue laying out the path into its fullest measure — in all of its self-evident emptiness. 

The path is ever here and now, straight and simple. All you need is, open your eyes and overcome your resistance to "what is".