A picture the Earth. Which way up is it?

Picture the Earth.

Which way up is it? Is the North pole at the bottom or the top. Usually we picture it like this picture from Apollo 17 which Africa tapering downward, with Europe and USA in the top half and S.America and Australia in the bottom half.

Now imagine the Solar system with the planets orbiting the sun. Which way around is it? I imagine we continue the orientation and have the planets going clockwise around the sun, and the top of the Sun being the same half at the top of the Earth.

And the galaxy how do we orient that? And the Universe?

Actually it is arbitrary. There is no "way up" in the universe. It is a convention with no real part.

So why is the Northern Hemisphere Up and the Southern Down? Up is the direction of Sky and Sky is where the Gods live in space, light and brightness, while down is the darkness of the ground and the low creatures and the bad things. Naturally when European explorers drew the maps they put themselves at the top. The same way as Greenwich claims the Zero meridian which is also unreal and arbitrary.

This has no reality, it is all imaginary, but it is suprisingly robust in the mind and creates what looks like a reality, that the Earth should be this way not that.

This is what illusion looks like! It infiltrates everything, it is the source of all Evil, it is the work of devils and it is what causes suffering. There are three things which cause illusion: anger, greed and ego. The orientation of the Earth illusion arises from European greed and ego.

Likewise companies have an orientation. I notice when jobs become available it is usually at the bottom, people get promoted up and leave places at the bottom. Salaries rise upwards. People look upwards in their careers. But it is illusion.

When you look at it the work is done by the lowest paid - the sweat shops, the factories - and the pen pushers and management who do progressively less get paid progressively more. They argue their responsibility is greater - but look at the hyperbolic positions of top executives who can completely destroy companies get massive pay outs and the boys network looks after them and gets them new jobs.

There is no up and down in companies. It is illusion created by greed and ego.

So much of our lives is dominated by such illusions. Government being only one I have attached recently.