"As a tree grows from a seed, so does a life grow from awareness."
A beautifully crafted, single-page interactive guide that maps the entire human lifespan to the metaphor of a tree — from seed to roots, trunk, branches, leaves, fruit, and beyond — grounded in Advaita Vedanta philosophy and modern psychological research.
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| Tree Stage | Life Phase | Years |
|---|---|---|
| 🌱 Seed | Conception & Infancy | 0–3 |
| 🌿 Sapling | Childhood | 3–12 |
| 🌲 Young Tree | Adolescence | 12–25 |
| 🏛️ Mature Trunk | Early Adulthood | 25–40 |
| 🌳 Full Canopy | Midlife | 40–60 |
| 🍂 Autumn Tree | Elder Years | 60–75 |
| ✨ Eternal Roots | Legacy & Beyond | 75+ |
- 🌱 Seed — The Advaita foundation: Tat Tvam Asi (Thou Art That). Your true self is pure consciousness.
- 🌿 Roots — The 5 foundations of wellbeing: Body, Breath, Mind, Intellect, Bliss (Pancha Kosha).
- 🪵 Trunk — Core life areas: Health, Relationships, Purpose, Finance, Spirituality.
- 🌿 Branches — Your 75-year lifespan broken into meaningful phases with visual charts.
- 🍃 Leaves — Daily time allocation: how to spend 24 hours consciously.
- 🍎 Fruit — Ikigai: the Japanese concept of your reason for being.
- 🌦️ Seasons — Research tools: PERMA, Wheel of Life, Flow State, Stoicism, Mindfulness.
- 🌲 Forest — Advaita philosophy: Brahman, Maya, Self-Inquiry (Neti Neti), Non-duality.
- 🌸 Daily Garden — A complete daily Sadhana schedule from 5 AM to 10 PM.
- Lifespan Donut Chart — 75 years divided into life phases
- Daily 24-Hour Donut Chart — Conscious allocation of each day
- Core Life Areas Donut Chart — 5 dimensions of a full life
- Ikigai Venn Diagram — The intersection of passion, mission, vocation, and profession
- Pancha Kosha Layers — The 5 sheaths of existence in Advaita philosophy
This guide is grounded in Advaita Vedanta — the non-dual philosophy of ancient India:
- Brahman — The one infinite consciousness that underlies all existence
- Atman = Brahman — Your individual self is not separate from the universal self
- Maya — The illusion of separateness that causes suffering
- Viveka — Discriminative wisdom: discerning the real from the unreal
- Vairagya — Non-attachment: holding life lightly like a leaf in the wind
- Neti Neti — "Not this, not this" — the path of negation to find the true self
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| PERMA Model (Seligman) | Positive Psychology framework |
| Wheel of Life | Life balance assessment |
| Ikigai | Japanese purpose-finding framework |
| Flow State (Csikszentmihalyi) | Peak performance & engagement |
| Pancha Kosha (Taittiriya Upanishad) | Five layers of human existence |
| Stoic Daily Practice | Resilience & equanimity |
| Mindfulness / Vipassana | Present-moment awareness |
| Circadian Rhythm Science | Aligning activity with biology |
- Download or clone this repository
- Open
index.htmlin any web browser - No server, no build step, no dependencies to install
Visit the GitHub Pages URL above.
- HTML5 + CSS3 — Single self-contained file
- Chart.js — Interactive donut charts
- Google Fonts — Cormorant Garamond & Lato typography
- Pure vanilla JavaScript — No frameworks
You-are-a-tree/
├── index.html # Complete guide (self-contained, ~47KB)
├── README.md # This file
└── .gitignore # Git ignore rules
"The Upanishads say: the Self is the witness, the space in which all experience arises and dissolves. Like a tree that stands through all seasons — storms, drought, abundance — without itself changing — so is the Self: unchanging, witnessing, free."
This project was born from the desire to make ancient wisdom accessible through modern visual tools — bridging the timeless teachings of Advaita with evidence-based psychology for a life of peace, purpose, and clarity.
Free to use, share, and adapt for personal growth and non-commercial purposes.
Made with 🌿 and stillness.