Life is a donut. (or doughnut).
We are donuts. Our bodies are donuts. Bodies have a hollow tube running through them. When the hollow tube remains flowing and clean, our bodies are healthy. The moment it clogs, diseases appear. Our life is also like a donut with a hollow hollow tube through it. The upper side of the donut is the absolute, the unbounded cosmos. The bottom part of the donut is the relative, bounded by resting on the earth. Both sides are essential. So long as the hole in this donut connects the absolute with the relative, the mind functions well and remains healthy. Life gets into unbounded flow at some times, while remains engaged in specific chores at other times.
When we eat too much or eat junk stuff, our body’s hollow tube begins to clog. When we don’t flush it down it with enough water the tube clogs. Similarly if we take in too much data and information we need time and energy to digest it. Undigested information clogs the hollow tube. The connection between the top and the bottom of the donut gets clogged. The donut becomes more like a pancake. At that point, the view is mostly of the relative side of life, the bottom of the pancake, and the view of the top is totally obscured. Yogic techniques such as pratyaahara are ways to unclog our mind. Meditation helps to reopen the hollow tube of the mind and makes the pancake back into a donut. Attention of the mind goes round and round in the donut in a self-referral manner, even as it connects with the infinity above and the minuscule stuff below.
A donut can be fresh thick soft and sweet. It can be glazed and have toppings, and be of different sizes. Similarly our life can be fresh expansive smiling joyful and grateful. It can have its idiosyncracies and passions and wisdom. OR else life can be short brutal nasty dour fearful stale and putrefying.
Be a fresh donut everyday.
Blissful Living 
Life IS a donut! Thank you so much for sharing your incredible visual and intellectual representation of life and its complex system! This is not a complete summary of your sharing, but I value these interpretations. This is a really delightful read to realize :). The way that your writing unfolds here is an evolved manifestation of such universal truth. Really really lovely. I’m very grateful to have read this and to have become aware of your gifts. The SCI course with you (your first time teaching this course!) was lovely and revelatory, and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your Moksha book. I have so many highlighted points, and I know that I will continue to learn from your teachings; and I feel that our connection will progress and expand, which brings me such bubbling joy.
Thank you,
Darcy Mae Wright
Thank you Darcy. Sorry, I just saw this comment. Wishing you all the best.