Relationship
A communications model: in the communication paradigm there is a transmitter, a receiver, a transmit filter, a receive filter, and the noise in the channel.
A model of an atom: there atomic forces: the attraction, the repulsion. For the attractive force, the closer one particle gets to another the more you they are attracted. The repelling force is stronger the closer the particles get. The repelling force is linear, the attractive force exponential. So a point reached where the attractive force equals the repelling force and the particles enter a bonded relationship. And that bonded relationship is very strong. When other forces act on the particles, they move closer, they move further way. But the bonded relationship is strong: the pair remains bonded.
Like it is in communications, a relationship is tuning the filters. What we say, what we hear. What’s behind may not change, those are the patterns, the Sankara’s, personalities. They are based on previous relationships. You are what you are IN relationship. The things that matter to you, the things that drive you nuts, the things that you are afraid of, the things that you desire: greed, fear, delusion are all in relationships.
And like an atom, relationships are a bond of attractors, the things we like, and repellents, the things we don’t like.
And like an atom, relationships breath: we move closer, we move apart.
Hold each other like the beach holds the ocean: the tide comes in and is held by the beach, the tide goes out, and the beach lets it go.