When John Edwards warns of BUSH and his rush to war, whether with Iraq, Iran, Syria, or whoever...this is the key, "you can't even give him the first step in that authority because he cannot be trusted."
You can trust Gravity.
You can trust Balance.
You can trust the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
You can trust Addition, Subtraction, and Multiplication.
Figures (and math principles) don't lie. Figureheads do--it's their nature. It's the nature of their consciousness--it's their operating nature at this snap-shot in time---until the 3.0 Version upgrade.
The Version 1.0 Principle used by Figureheads: ME, ME, ME, I'm Special.
Then came the Version 2.0 Principle: We, We, Us, Ours, We're special.
Remember..."You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created." --Einstein.
Breakdown (1.0 and 2.0): a self-centered point of orientation. Ver. 1.0 is just the immature self, arrogance. Ver. 2.0 is just a collection of immature selves, a click. KEY: you see this social phenomenon from grade-school through the AARP. It's the social dynamics of the socially-conditioned acquired mind. What's more, it's not Reality, it's a false parallel reality. All the Principles listed above, and many more, do not honor or stoop to fame, name, position or status---only conditioned human minds. Dogs are even indiscriminate of who's who! We're born into it, like language, and are subtlely ruled by it, like language, until...an upgraded Version 3.0 of orientation. This is required for Humanity since... "You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created." --Einstein.
NEWSFLASH: 3.0 Principles, properly used, can be trusted to lead Humanity to firmer ground Reality, just as a compass can be trusted to show you magnetic north and get you out-of-the-woods, when properly used.
Why is that? Because Principles and Compasses don't bend, break, or bow to the Figureheads. As immutable they aren't lured by fame, greed, lust or blinded by anger, fear, hatred and so on. And they don't bow to my Figurehead or threats, when suffering delusion with a puffed-up ego-head---or yours---so you know they can be trusted and used, when understood and worked properly. Work a Principle...? You Betcha!
Let's be honest about the political terrain, we all get hooked on that "me, me, me, i'm special" (1.0 Version) and the "we, we, us, ours, we're Special" (2.0 Version) orientation. Say I now---Principles are the tools for getting unhooked! Throw off them chains, baby!
Do you see that the best-intentioned political activism typically reverts to the Version 2.0? We, we, us, ours, We're Special, It's our turn now! The matrix of language-based emotionally-triggered energetics embedded in our consciousness, OUR consciousness, Silly! is what gives us our perceived world. Language-based perception of reality is 'through the looking glass' Alice! We all know this, but now, just follow the money! See how they run, run, run them ADS! Don't overlook the obvious here---repetition is effective advertising. When was the last time you stopped languaging??? and checked out reality! I mean, shut-da-pie hole, and shut da-pie-hole belonging to the voice in your head! Get present to somatic-energetic-particle-wave space time Reality! Listen to emptiness---the Void---Einstein dug it, you can too!
NEWSFLASH: Reality exists independent of language and our perceived reality, not the other way around! And Principles exist independent of language! Principles exist independent of our "feverish selfish, little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." ....umm...George Bernard Shaw. So, whatcha gonna do...whine and complain? Or figure way to tie your cart to a shooting star Principle and see where it leads!
RELIGION NEWSFLASH: Don't fret about God's Will. Align yourself thoroughly with any chosen Principle, stick to it like glue through thick and thin, and you'll get somewhere very different. All the Principles are sourced from that Mystery and lead right back to it. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride" --Betty Davis Bumpy, yes...'cause we all got lots to learn and garbage to unload, a real life experiment.
That's why immutable Principles (3.0), applied properly, yield a solution to the Version 1.0 and 2.0 social dilemmas that are embedded in and thereby sourced at the language-based emotionally-triggered energetic-mind level. Skip the PLASMA TV upgrade for Christmas, baby, go for Version 3.0!
What Principle(s) was Gandhi refering to here? "Be the change you want to see in the world."
Or here? "Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you would become." (Careful, watch for the Version 1.0 Me-me-me tugging you into fantasy-fame ending..."what you would become?"! Feel it's luring tug? "Hmmm...I would become King of Hostess, let them eat Twinkies!' I get the Ho-Hos.)
Or here. "Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected." (Balance: head and heart)
Or, by golly, here! "Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love." (Not typically on NFL half-time chalk boards. Though half-time sponsors routinely gameplan viewers with "conquer with lust". Hmmm...did i mention emotionally-triggered energetics and it's access to the subconscious mind??. The subconscious mind never sleeps and continually collects energetic/emotional impressions of your world.)
All kidding aside, did you notice something odd, though? All these Principles have a 'weird-cosmic-magical-zen-like you-gotta-be-kidding' quality to them, like "conquer with love", huh?...y'know what I mean. Or, ummm...'magical' quality... just like the first time seeing of the needle on a compass, swish back and forth in your hand, slowly, more slowly, then finally settling in on actual magnetic north. Whooosh! Eye-popping moment! Actual magnetic north in the palm of your hand. God! that's cool. A hush settles in this moment. Upon you...as a kid...remember? Yes... remember. (head nods) And get this...the best part...now...experiencing the invisible magnetic field of our planet through the tiny orienting tool ...in your small hand then ...is as magical, now, possibly forever, as the experience of the world you've grown so sure to believe and expect to be solid and predictable, suddenly re-orienting itself around you when you hold a Principle, yes, magnified and energized in your clear, focused mind. Awesome. You're tapping into the Creative Principle when you do this---no joke. The Mind is a subtle and powerful strong thing, it's invisible yet creates architecture of cities, the A-bomb, music and masterpieces. NO JOKE!
Though the looking glass, Alice, of a Principle, your mind perceives the world from another, more integrated, level (Version 3.0). True! Why else was Einstein covered in chalkboard dust 24/7, baby! He was visiting another realm and lovin' it! We don't need the X-Files! Energetic Reality rocks! (Stick with me, I'll have those wave-particle photons bombarding your pineal gland like never before!) Continue to hold that Principle there and the sequences of unpredictable changes will astonish your mind. Continue to do so, not quitting early, not taking a short cut into Version 1.0 or 2.0 (ie. crowning yourself King of Twinkies and enslaving the Keebler elves, or whatever), and the changes will cascade and build momentum in totally unpredictable ways in your life. Don't believe me??...LOOK below---Gandhi.
Understand Principle Power in Ghandi's life. Facts: small skinny man, too shy to open his mouth in a courtroom, a failing attorney, and as Paul Harvey says..."now you know the rest of the story". Ghandi's commitment to work Principle led to 11th hour showdowns in huge social dilemmas...took him to that 3.0 realm where the clutch solution was waiting, ie. Salt March, April 6, 1930, in defiance of British Law---just one example of his experiment in truth, his experience of magnetic north, again and again, in the practice of Principle. "In the Zone" Joe Montana found his magnetic north miraculously numerous times as well, in the 11th hour, 4rd and long, TD! Go for it, Baby, I'm telling ya...Principles can be trusted, are immutable, and must be properly applied, (batteries sold separately). And Principle operates in the interacting form/energetic/mind dimensions of who we are. Mystic to Athlete, nothing left out.
Hold for a moment...Yes, it's true. (take a breath, then breathe out slowly as you read this...pls...) The mental halogram of the tiny compass orienting magically in your hand to that which is unseen is no different than the experience of your focused mind using an immutable Principle to re-orientate the world around you in totally unseen ways. These two events are not equal, but at Version 3.0 level, they are not different, and they are in fact, essentially the same--sharing common energetic/essense. SEEing through the 'looking glass' of Principle, the world and you re-orient. Just as child learns about GRAVITY and slowly re-orientates, and respects that "gravity" thing or ends up with more black and blues. Or learns about false POWER and the conditioning of the acquired mind, curling into a ball on the playground while being kicked, growing up to become "the meek that inherits the earth" and taking solace in that language garbage. When we respect and operate by Principle, others respect us---because of our energized commitment to Principle, not because Version 1.0, "Me, me, me, I'm special", or the threat of a bigger stick. People will march into a NON-violent war, prepared and willing to die, armed with Love of Principle. Doing the right thing (means) for the right reason (ends). Y'know, none of us get out of here alive...how do you wanna go?, with a whine on your lips or a burning brightly and alive with a Principle in your soul?
Do this Principle thing and your world will really change; essential concerns will fall into place, our disingenuous ways will hit the fan like shit..."splat", you'll get a blast from the past call from you'll-neVerrr-guess-who, dreams will occur that offer subtle levels of understanding and insight, antagonists sourced as emotional resentments for you will show up ready for completion, and so on. You'll be cleansing your emotional grid matrix just like how the Earth is currently cleanses Her grid via fever, flood, and upheaval. (You kinda dig this but think I'm over the top??: Google "global consciousness project", archived in Princeton, por favor. Ah...What a bit of language garbage, i mean, name-dropping won't do.) And after the fact, your rational-linear-languaging mind might draw a flow chart of all the synchronicities, chance meetings, I-was-just-gonna-call-you-toos, but that chart would be a 3-dimenional string-theory mess. No way, Jose', could you or anyone predict the outcome. No way, Jose' one could anyone predict Ghandi's outcome---what a classic! Why no predictability??
NEWSFLASH: Reality is a multidimensional interacting form-energetic-mind matrix!
How does the Principle-sychronicity thing work? Simply put: On the level above the warring opposites of form, like attracts like. People properly working Principle, resonating and aligning with immutable, trustworthy Principle, find each other, stumble onto and assist each other, connect to each other---even through the murky, sticky, dark forces of Version 1.0 and 2.0. In effect, they become Principles operating as people, but with more daring, fluidity and personality than a hot cha-cha-cha female martial artist doing a "3 Strikes" comedy rountine for hostile and captive audience in a guardless Folsom Prison---she leavin' those boys in stitches and bowed over (side-splittin' pain and laughter). Whew!!
Remember the Verison 1.0 and 2.0: self-centered point of orientation? Well here's Version 3.0, quite possibly the PRINCIPLE of PRINCIPLES:
Centered-in-the-mind/body/self point of orientation
Your physical body, your energetic emotional-self, and your thought-holding mind-self are all a compasses that can detect, measure and discern Principle, interacting as a whole. You are the COMPASS, no need for a Figurehead. No need for the Priest. Shaman are cool, keep the 3.0 Versions around.
- Listen to your gut, just below the navel, you know what's true and what's B.S. (The small intestine's nerve endings number nearly equal to the brain's.)
- Breathe into your "hara", lower dantian, or gut and calm your mind to discern what's steak and what's sizzle in the real sticky scenes when your baggage is bumping up against another's in a Version 1.0 or 2.0. Baggage is sizzle impostering as steak. Or try this; baggage is form masquerading as essence. We fight over it at the airport turnstyle of life, but we lose precious life in the process---'cause it's not life's essence---continual anger, competition, fear and hate burn out the adrenals and kidneys (1 of 5 Yin Organs). Without Principle we're dogs at a buffet. (It's best to practice this centered breathing to the point of auto-pilot. Too much is happening in the buffet line rush-to-chow, rush-to-war, rush-to-limbaugh to just begin centering when the 1.0/2.0 stickiness is already building strong. In fact, you'll see/feel/sense sticky scenes before they fully show up when you're really tuned in.)
- Keep calm and look/listen/feel for the Principle that keys a solution, often it appears in the 11th hour after you've let go all the rush-to-whatevers.
- Intention, Will, and continually purging the 'acquired mind' so that you can feel/hear/know the 'original self-mind', you know, superconscious mind, the source of creative mathematical, artistic, musical constructs and solutions. That highly integrated, elusive, harmonized stuff, bubbha!
NOPE, haven't smoked a blunt all morning!
If you do this centering stuff, eventually...
Centered-in-the-mind/body/self point of orientation integrates, piece-by-piece, as the acquired mind's language-based emotionally triggered energetics are dismantled,...into...Centered-in-the-Self point of orientation. (Experience of self transforms, cell-by-cell, into Self. Daring comedians in training: See Daoist Alchemy and consolidating the power of the 5 yin organs. Oh yeah, you can still use language to communicate once it's dismantled, it just no longer uses YOU! unless you buy into the delusion, get hooked again, or just get lazy.)
The best part of all, you don't need to know your original self-mind, mind-self, self-Self or wherever you are on a map to get yourself found. Just like in boy scouts, start walking and use the compass properly and note specific changes/landmarks in the unfamiliar territory as you scan map and land. Similarly, integrate your experience of reality as you walk with your Principle in hand. Ghandi called his "My Experiment with Truth", an autobiography. Ground test your use of Principle in action. Don't take my word, your word, or anyone's words...'cause talk is cheap, TALK is LANGUAGE, NOT REALITY. We don't wanna see boyscouts walking off cliffs or into strip clubs. Nor do we wanna see each other grasping Principles like clubs and hitting each other over the head in a Version 1.0 or 2.0 warrring of opposites battle. Get it!! Soon (hours, days, weeks, months) you'll recognize the markings of Version 3.0 occuring in and around you more and more. Bye Golly! Cell-by-cell. That's how you tranform a prison of form, a prison of warring opposites---which is what is mostly occuring in anyone with bulging mental baggage...the run-on voice in the head, "god, i hate that bitch", "who's he think he is anyway", "shit, damn cops are never there when these a-holes run red lights", "you can't trust those Xs, Ys, or Zs", "i hate algebra too!" and so on!!! Unless you're diligently following your breath and focused just below the navel, 90% odds you've got a run-on-voice operating when you're alone. (Wow---hear that...it just got quiet.)
* Eintein's time relativity version of SOON: 2 minutes on a hot stove seems like 2 hours, conversely, 2 hours with a pretty girl seems like 2 minutes.
So was Ghandi just pandering to the Version 1.0 Me-me-me lust for power addicts when he said:
"Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong"
You are the calm center in the chaotic storm of the world. This is how NON-violence is the real revolution, requiring strength of focus, proper use of Principle, and strength of insight/understanding. People can feel and sense Principle-energetics from across a crowded room when it's run powerfully. They can feel it in the written word, even! Right??! Bickering and infighting is the conditioned/acquired mind and is thus, the social norm---c'mon people. Principle ain't for the weak-hearted, but it'll turn any conditioned weakling into a force of Nature.
SEE this in action right here (squeaky on Sat May 12, 2007 on TALK LEFT)
There is this famous story where a 20 year top black belt Aikido student who had never gotten to test his ability in a real world fight, was finally faced with a chance to test his training. While riding on a bus one hot summer's day, he noticed a very large disheveled and unruly drunk get on. The foul smelling brute immediately started hurling insults at people while shoving his way toward the rear the bus.
The 20 year student standing near the back of the bus secretly wished that the drunk would try to attack him. Since Aikido is a defensive art he could never instigate a fight. In order to defeat his opponent he would have to be attacked first. In his dojo he was the top blackbelt but lamented that he had no real world experience. He envied the legendary stories all the great masters' extraordinary fights.
The student was trying to stay calm with a non aggressive posture in accordance with the principles of Aikido, but internally, he was seething. Watching the brute indiscriminately run roughshod over people on the bus was really pissing him off.
Soon the drunk fixated on the Aikido student. The student anticipating a fight was excited to see if all those years of practice would pay off.
Just as the brute was upon the Aikido student there was a loud noise from the front of the bus. Everyone, including the drunk, turned their attention to a little old man. He was sitting in one of those seats reserved for the old and infirm. Right after the noise the old man shouted: 'Hey you! Come here'.
The drunk started to walk to the front of the bus in response to the the old man's challenge. The drunk now in front of the old mad snarled threateningly. The old man said in a soft voice: 'looks like you have had a really tough day.' Within 20 seconds the brute was sobbing, his head in the old man's lap, while telling his life's story.
It turned out that the old man was Morihei Ueshiba. (founder of Aikido)
(Editor's note for the scientifically flow-chart inclined: You respect and let him/her have their angry expression (usually sourced from being dis-respected in the past), stepping out of it's way (active self-respect), noting the hurt lodged beneath (the real unprocessed emotion from the past, and respect for the past present in them), and staying in your calm center as you connect to their energetic/emotional field (electrical-somatic empathy), allowing the hurt 'charge' to discharge/release/flow out of their field, via continuity with your outer emotional field, and into the earth (ground the energy) and dissipate the 'charge'. Never once leaving your center, staying tethered to your center with your breathing. By staying centered, you have inadvertantly shown the other how to discharge a clarity-disrupting emotional charge lodged inside the psyche. See Medical Qigong Therapy for details.)
Give a scout a compass, directed for a day. Awaken him to the compass inside, he manifests his destiny for lifetimes.--King Twinkie
Finally, since Love is, by far, the most misunderstood Principle on the planet, it's easier to approach it by the "no, not that" method.
Remember..."Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love." --Gandhi
Love is not an emotional whimpiness and piles of soggy kleenex globs.
Love is not that "meekness" due to inherit the scorched earth after the
subprime crisis.
Love is not a passive non-force of nature. (Ghandi said he'd take
immeditate action if he wife was ever slapped on the face by another.)
Love is not a short-lived excitement of the heart (another picture-
perfect marriage ends up in ruins on the rocks, boo-hoo).
Love is not an all-engulfing empathetic display leading to energetic
depletion, and eventually morphing into it's opposite: a calloused,
cold cynicism.
Did you just see that? The workings of the dynamics around a false principle. Whenever a princple morphs into it's opposite (ie. as in love-hate, or empathy-callousness) then, it wasn't really a Principle from the start of the dynamic cycle of events. Ah-Hah! A false principle! A Figurehead perhaps! The acquired mind has learned all sorts of emotional and structural facades to parade as humility, piety, strength, powerful, etc. that become locked in psychological pattterns and somatic body-holding amor---all for defense in a learned, cruel world. Just watch some talking heads on TV for evidence of such.
RULE 1: If a Principle morphs or cycles into it's opposite, it wasn't a Principle.
RULE 2: Principles are the immutable center of the dynamic activity, not the morphing of the forms, emotions, desires, words, motivations, agendas, and other mental formations.
RULE 3: All candidates shall explain their actions, choices, decisions in terms of Principles and we, the people, shall separate the real from the false, the wheat from the chaff, in a Principle-based Forum. It's like a math class group solution approach. Of course there will be emotionally charged expressions for subject matter near and dear to the heart...give them their expression, and discharge it, then let's move on in Version 3.0 manner, dust off the chalk, and continue to seek and operate with Principle.
STICKY POINT: Ends vs. Means. Principles are the means and end simultaneously. They are now and always have been. They are immutable and are the path through the chaotic appearing mess. (Damn... ya mean sex, drugs, and roll'n'roll---those other emotionally-triggered energetic therapies---won't get me through it?) Humanity, Reality, Existence is ONE, always has been. At the level of our Version 1.0 and 2.0 'looking glass' we see and experience the friction and occasional harmony between the 10,000 things---false parallel realities. Enlightened masters don't run for office. They're not into Version 1.0 or 2.0. They hang out with Einstein's chalkboard dust all over them in the 3.0 Zone. And the wisdom that permeates the Comos and them, trickles down to us, occasionally, or we reach up to it, via working Principles energetically. Did I mention the language-based emotionally-triggered energetics embedded in our consciousness?? ...silly, me. When we step out of Version 1.0 and 2.0 we get some of that dust on us, thank God! I see the beginnings of something promising when Glen Greenwald, in his "National Review reporter caught fabricating; where is the "liberal media"? article notes a right-wing blogger's strong words against the practice of fabrication:
One has to give credit where it's due. Michelle Malkin sharply criticizes Smith's reporting...
Thus we have RULE 3: Share your Ho-Hos! We all share a common fate. Find, enact, engage with a Principle...and you'll suprisingly discover the start of an unexpected and potentially promising mutual endeavor with Humanity at the center.
Finally Gandhi's active dedication to Principle, once more...(Ghandi by Louis Fischer).
"India achieved her independence on August 15, 1947, but Gandhi announced that he 'cannot participate in the celebration'. He was in Calcutta again fighting riots. All that day he fasted and prayed. On Sept. 1st, he said, "What my word in person cannot do, perhaps my fast will. It may touch the hearts of all the warring factions in the Punjab if it does in Calcutta. I therefore begin fasting from 8:15 tonight to end only if and when sanity returns to Calcutta.' It was a fast to the death. On Sept. 4th...five hundred policemen, including their British officiers, had commenced a one day sympathy fast while remaining on duty. Burly killers, leaders of hooligan gangs, arrived at Gandhi's beside and wept at seeing his wasting body; they pledged to refrain from depredations. Hindu, Moslem, and Christian deputations of merchants and working men took vows in his presence..." His fasts "were intended to stir the conscience and remove mental sluggishness."