Balanced Seesaw

“Meet me on the corner and I’ll meet you on the other side. Then we can seesaw our way to a balanced life.”
~ Photo and strange quote by A.Void.

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Sometimes,
​(okay, many times),
one feels like being
on opposite sides of the fence.
First, this side,
then, that one.
The face changes,
​like the shape of the pigs;
now fat, 
now thin,
should I do this,
or that?
Yet the fence (or seesaw) does not change!
If ida & pingala can meet,
then balance can be achieved. 

Sometimes,
(okay, many times),
one also feels this way being in a relationship.
Many issues are brought to the surface
​so that the Light of awareness
can show us to shed old skins—
the true dance of Love
is the inner melting and merging
of Shiva & Shakti as One.

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🐷 Commentary for the Journeyer

(Tone, Symbolism & the Inner Terrain)

There’s humor in duality. One pig to the left, the other to the right. Softly balanced, playfully opposed. The image invites you to smile—and then to look closer. The seesaw beneath them isn’t just for play; it’s a subtle nod to ida and pingala, the twin channels in yogic thought that crisscross up the spine. One represents cooling lunar energy, the other fiery solar. When they meet in harmony, awareness rises beyond the pull of opposites.

The face may change, emotions may sway, decisions may flip-flop. But what if—beneath it all—the seesaw remains unchanged? Perhaps balance isn’t found in controlling either side, but in witnessing their dance without attachment. Humor becomes a spiritual mirror, and even two pink pigs become unexpected teachers.

This is spirit humor: where the absurd reveals the absolute.

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🐾 Questions for the Journeyer

(For Introspection, Reflection & Meditation)

• What does it mean to be on "opposite sides of the fence"? How often do we experience inner conflict like this?

• Is the seesaw a metaphor for duality, or could it also represent our spiritual practice of balance?

• Why pigs? Do they symbolize indulgence, innocence, or simply mirror how we see ourselves in life’s silly, sacred tension?

• Have you ever laughed at your spiritual struggles? What does laughter do to heaviness?

• Can humor dissolve resistance?

• If ida and pingala truly represent our inner push and pull, what happens when they pause... together?

• What would it mean to seesaw your way into awakening?

• What part of you remains still while everything else sways?

• Why would you tell someone to meet you on the corner but that you’d meet them on the other side? What does the other side mean? The other side of the street, other side of town, other side of the seesaw or the other side as in the afterlife?

  • The phrase "Meet me on the corner, and I’ll meet you on the other side" suggests a transition or shift in perspective.

  • The "other side" can be many things: another point in time, another state of mind, the other side of an experience, or even the afterlife.

  • Spiritually, it can also represent duality—where one waits at the threshold of transformation, but crossing over is an individual journey.

• How can you seesaw your way to a balanced life?

  • The seesaw represents life's constant fluctuations—ups and downs, opposites, change.

  • Balance does not mean avoiding movement, but rather, becoming aware of the movement without being lost in it.

  • One "seesaws" to balance by observing the mind’s inclinations without attachment—by not resisting change, yet not indulging in it either.

• Why is that one feels like being on both sides of the fence? Is it about playing devil’s advocate, about being indecisive, about enjoying the ego’s play of being lost?

  • Being on both sides of the fence suggests a state of dual identification—being pulled between perspectives, desires, or identities.

  • The ego often enjoys "trying on" different perspectives but never truly resolving them—it prefers drama over resolution because drama maintains its existence.

  • True clarity comes not from choosing a side but from realizing the fence itself is illusory—that opposites are mental constructs.

• The wooden seesaw in the picture is one that can be easily undone and made lopsided- yet why do the words in the commentary say that the seesaw does not change?

  • The physical seesaw changes, but the principle of "seesawing" remains unchanged.

  • The mind's tendency to move between past and future, highs and lows—this is perpetual.

  • The teaching here is: recognize that life fluctuates, but the awareness watching it does not.

  • Balance is not fixing the seesaw, but realizing you are not the one riding it.

• Do the pigs in the photo represent duality and change? Are they ida and pingala?

  • Yes, the two pigs represent a playful symbol of duality—just as ida and pingala (the two energy channels in yogic tradition) represent the sun and moon, left and right, feminine and masculine.

  • The shape of the pigs changes—one appears fatter, one thinner—this reflects the constant shifts of identity and perception.

  • Humorously, they are still pigs no matter their size—just as the mind is still the mind, regardless of the stories it tells.

• Is the word relationship only about intimate ones, or can it also refer to all relationships, including the relationship between the part (I) and the whole (existence)?

  • It refers to all relationships—not just romantic ones but also the relationship with oneself, with time, with identity, with existence itself.

  • The greatest relationship is between the perceived individual self ("I") and the larger universal existence.

  • The dance of Shiva & Shakti in the poem signifies this—the merging of the part and the whole.

• Does the “shedding of skins” refer to the twin snakes of ida and pingala?

  • Yes, this can be linked to the kundalini energy, where the "shedding of skins" is the dissolution of old identities as the energy rises.

  • Ida and Pingala intertwine like serpents shedding their skins—each movement is a purification process, revealing a deeper truth.

  • Just as a snake sheds its skin but remains a snake, awareness sheds layers of illusion but remains unchanged.

• What does the end of the commentary “melting and merging of Shiva and Shakti” have to do with a words in the quote “a seesawed balanced life?”

  • Shiva (consciousness) and Shakti (energy) are two but not two—they appear separate yet are always one.

  • The seesaw represents movement between them—duality, tension, and fluctuation.

  • Balance is achieved not by stopping the seesaw but by realizing the fulcrum in the middle—where Shiva and Shakti are not separate but one.

  • The melting and merging happens when one stops identifying with the movement and rests in the center—the stillness of pure awareness.

• Why is the category called spirit humor? What to say about these 2 pink pigs on either side of the seesaw? Is there humor to be seen in the image? In the quote?

  • The humor comes from how seriously the mind takes itself, when in reality, all of this is a divine play (Lila).

  • The pigs on a seesaw—something seemingly ridiculous—represent a profound truth about duality, balance, and illusion.

  • Enlightenment isn’t always a serious path—it’s realizing the cosmic joke that we were never really stuck to begin with.

  • The "joke" is on the ego, which keeps searching for balance while never realizing it is both the seeker and the seesaw itself.