What does the Top of the Mountain Mean to You ?

[Jeremy Bong]

Originally Posted by Lynn

Hello

From a spiritual point of view what does the statement the top of the mountain mean to you. I grew up with a childhood game "King of the Mountain". I was never the King growing up.

Lynn

On the mountain top mean to me.

On the mountain top mean : I have beyond any border, the border of nature, the creation, realms, accessible, reign, changeable, stable, balance, energy, forward and backward......uncountable existences , the float, the sink, fusion, conduction, mechanism, flow.... the bliss, happiness, suffering, stress... sickness... God, alien, ghost.... time....

They're on my hand never split or volatile, they're constants, still, idle, silence, quiet.....

That means, I need to seek for another mountain top which I supposed it can be higher than this mountain top. There's a Chinese idiom: there's a mountain beyond this mountain --- there's always somebody or something better.

[Gem]

I just thought, when you are in the valley you don't see far, but from the mountain top one can see the entire valley below. But, you have to leave the valley to reach the mountain top, and it is harder to go up the hill than it is to go down.

[Howla Dark]

Top of the mountain means being in charge, king, queen or even the strongest.

[Shivani Devi]

It means reflection. To look back with fondness over the journey. It means to appreciate the view more from climbing over someone who took the ski-lift or helicopter to the top.

[naturesflow]

Midnight Oil – King Of The Mountain

"King Of The Mountain"



Walking through the high dry grass, pushing my way through slow
Yellow belly black snake, sleeping on a red rock
Waiting for the stranger to go
Sugar train stops at the crossing, cane cockies cursing below
Bad storm coming, better run to the top of the mountain

Mountain in the shadow of light, rain in the valley below
Well you can say you're Peter, say you're Paul
Don't put me up on your bedroom wall, call me the king of the mountain

Blacksmith fires up the bellows, cane cutters burning the load
Workers of the world, run to the top of the mountain

Chorus - Mountain in the...

I can't take my hands from my face, there are some things we can't replace

Mountain in the

Over liquid tarmac wastelands of cactus and heat
Down cobblestone alleyways of washing day sheets
Up ghost prairie mountains of sunset and space
Down the road at a familiar place, across the wilderness
Out further than the bush I will follow you

[ocean breeze]

It means nothing.

But i like the idea and i'll play along with it and make it into something spiritual. I'll say that reaching the top means your understanding, wisdom, and strength has come to a certain peak. And with that comes greater responsibility. Through constant trial and error, of course. The journey to the top must have been a rough journey. Getting lost and distracted, constantly falling and having to pick yourself back up. Failure after failure and never giving up. Then finally making it to the top. The journey is not over though. Now its up to you to take that leap of faith and jump off into the unknown. Do you survive? ..... Of course not, nobody does.

[Squatchit]

I'll go along with ocean breeze's post.

Originally Posted by naturesflow

"And when you have reached the mountain top, it is then you begin to climb"..It hangs on the my wall, it has a sweet little bird sitting by its nest full of eggs, with a cable car postage stamp on it.

Everything can be symbolic in your world, if it is for you. I bought that at a time when I had reached the top of a bigger cycle of growth in my reality.

Now days I see mountains more directly as mountains. I have a few favourites in my world. I don't have any desire to climb them all the same. Rather enjoy them as a gift from nature from wherever I stand..

As for Kings and Queens, that too has a symbolic relationship as you see it..

Yes, I tend to this view seeing it as metaphorical for any summit one feels one's reached. That doesn't mean it's the only or highest summit and whether one climbs them is related to the rewards.

In a spiritual context the King / Queen concept suggests someone being both ruler and subject, control over the emanations of Self, thus in one view ruler of one's destiny.

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[Howla Dark]

There's no right or wrong answer. It's how each person sees it.

[Baile]

Merry Nevermind!