Too many people fall into an either/or mindset. This happens with essentially everything you can think of - people latch onto a particular way to go about things and reject everything else. Why?

The way forward will be multi-pronged. We are a diverse people with many talents and dispositions, and reality itself is multilayered and complex. Obviously the answer will be to encourage different people to move forward in whatever way most suits their particularities.

The main point is that we share a vision and work towards superordinate goals. There are many paths to the top of the mountain.

A particular example of this is the parallel society vs infiltration dichotomy. There is no reason these approaches should be at odds with each other as there are good arguments for each and it's really an illusion that one necessarily has to choose one over the other.

I'm not saying people should stop arguing for what they think is better because that's how you refine ideas, but it's always good to develop the most sophisticated understanding that you can and this invariably includes nuance.

Instead of looking for the best objective path forward for everyone (doesn't exist), look for what path is best in relation to a person's unique circumstances and disposition.

When you look at a map, the destination is not the only factor that determines your direction - current location + destination will be what determines this.

Refine your view and learn to be a leader. Develop the ability to analyze what's best for the circumstances and encourage others on a case by case basis.

Broad strokes may be OK at a certain level, but if you want to paint something truly beautiful you'll need to be skilled with detail.

Some key words here:

- Additive Thinking, Synthesis
- Direction
- Nuance
- Refinement
- Way Forward
- Unique Disposition

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Destination
- Current Location
= Path

(Take the stretch of the entire road to the Destination and subtract the way you've already come. That should give you an idea of what's left to do.)

Destination = Superordinate Goal
Current Location = Individual Disposition

Superordinate Goal
- Individual Disposition
= Path

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Path
+ Obstacles
+ Fixation
= Stagnation

(Stagnation is caused by Fixation on Obstacles that lie on the Path)


Stagnation
- Obstacles
- Fixation
= Path

(The unobstructed Path flows, because the state of Stagnation devoid of Obstacles and Fixation loses stagnancy. >> Stagnation is not inherently exsistent. It only arises dependently with the Fixation on Obstacles.)


Path + Obstacles
=
Stagnation - Fixation

(A New Route that flows on without getting attached to specific ideas and that can only be discovered if Obstacles on the Path are overcome or integrated.)


A N E V E R E V O L V I N G
S T R A T E G Y :

Superordinate Goal
- Individual Disposition
+ Obstacles
- Fixation
= N E W R O U T E



M O S T E F F I C I E N T
S O L U T I O N
≠
S H O R T E S T P A T H

Walking the Middle Path

Stray too far to either side and fall to your doom. Even an accidental slip-up can have you tumbling into the depths that are burdensome to recover from,

or practice entering a state of balance, patiently walk the fine line between the extremes — fully open to and aware of the peripherals, yet focused on the task at hand: Finding the equilibrium as you consistently move forward.

It's not about "getting there", it's not about "there" and it's not about the way of "getting".

It is about the ability to dynamically shift Self to become a channel for the All.
If All is passing through, Nothing is Absolute.


N O T H I N G I S A B S O L U T E.


>> All is relative.
>> Absoluteness is in the Nothing.
>> No fragment is mistaken for the whole.


Become a lucent channel for the experiences that pass through your perception. And as It All passes through you, you will, unthinkingly, know what to do — where to place your next foot on the metaphorical edge.

There's no way to predetermine the correct action. Yet, the correct action is predetermied.

All you need to do is open up and receive the information that's already there.

And then, take the next step.


T U R N T O N O T H I N G .
R E C E I V E T H E A L L .

Are you hungry?

Or do you just need some energy?

E N E R G E T I C H U N G E R

Energy is everywhere, all the time. We don't need to go out to get it, and we don't need to do anything either. It transcends the worldly dual boundaries of ideas like "inside" and "outside", "here" and "not here", Self and Other.

There is no Within
and there is no Without,

Like there is no Beginning
and no End.

While spending time in nature or with good people helps our material brains to indirectly experience the concept of energy through light, temperature, fresh air, sound and living things, energy is by no means bound to such experiences, nor to places or activities.

It's everywhere, all the time.
So it's up to us to become a lucent channel for the energy that passes through either way.

We can deny or accept its flow, open up or try to shut it out.

But even if the energy is "blocked", it will force a way through.
That can get uncomfortable, if not physically painful.

You are being penetrated.

Your Being, like all Being, is penetrated by - interfused with - a force greater than Ego and greater than what your physical vessel can conceive of. How presumptuous to want to control it...

Let it permeate. Let it sink in, soak it up.
Let it merge with your sense of Self.
Watch Self dissolve in the process.


M A K E W A Y .


Accept that you have little say in where the wave will be taking you.
However, that little bit of pull will determine whether you sink or swim.


D E T E R M I N E T H E
T R A J E C T O R Y .

E M B R A C I N G
P E R S P E C T I V I S M

A print of this graphic by M. C. Escher has been on my parents living room wall for as long as I can remember. I recall looking at it long and often when I was small, sitting upside down on the sofa, feet up against the wall, head hanging down from the seat and wondering...

What if the ceiling were where gravity pulled me and I could walk up there?

As I sat there contemplating the picture and imagining an inverted world, our home would suddenly look so foreign and new to me.

T U R N I N G R E A L I T Y
O N I T S H E A D .

When we look at things from a different point of view, reality remains the same, but our experience drastically changes.

That doesn't distort the facts, but the act of consciously shifting perspective points a finger at the nature of our delusions.

While it feels like looking with a new set of eyes, it's really just a different pair of glasses. It's not only refreshing, it can be eye-opening:

The more frequently we get to recognize our delusion by knowingly putting on another set of spectacles, the more likely we gain awareness of the fact that we are usually wearing spectacles...

T A K E T H E M O F F .

I N S T E A D,
U S E Y O U R E Y E S ,

S O Y O U M A Y S E E . . .

O N L Y T O T H E N
U N - S E E
A N D T R U S T .

that feeling when the
I N T U I T I O N hits

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