Prime Path 29:
Ways Of Being: Final Points
We're nearing an end to our discussion of how our identified ways of being show up in human beings as individuals. Before we conclude this discussion, however, there are two important points that we need to make.
The first one can be a little tricky. You see, when I speak about being an asshole, or being a joyful, loving being, I am not talking about the way such a person speaks, nor about the way such a person behaves. Speaking and behaving are often sourced from an inauthentic veneer.
Instead, when I discuss an asshole, or a joyful, loving being, I am talking about the way that such a person is, underneath, and regardless of, any front, act, or veneer. (There's a all time great song that talks about this--click here to listen to it. Can you dig it?)
This distinction is another idea we will discuss at length further down the Prime Path.
The other point I need to make is something we talk about at other places, and which you may have already encountered. This point concerns our effort in SkyVillage to deal with things, not in terms of value judgments, but instead, in terms of what works.
You see, in the English language, the words I am using to describe human beings are charged. By this I mean that the word asshole, and the words joyful, loving being, in our common understanding, include connotative value judgments, to wit: to be an asshole is bad and wrong, and to be a joyful, loving being is good and right.
People have been trained to speak and think in a way in which they tend to add a value judgment charge to an enormous array of considerations. For example, when I use the words "diminishes the quality of life," almost everyone interprets that as being bad and wrong, while, when I use the words "enhances the quality of life", almost everyone interprets that as being good and right. The same thing applies to the words I am trying to set forth in a judgment-free way: "what works." In our shared listening, what works is good and right, and what doesn't work is bad and wrong.
There's really no way to completely escape this tendency. No matter how evolved and sophisticated you become, you are going to find yourself indulging in value judgments from time to time. It's built into the deal. It's what you stepped into when you stepped into this life.
What we're trying to do here, however, is to coach you into opening a window on another way of looking at things, or, you could say, we are coaching you to develop another way of being. We are going to dig DEEP into these kinds of considerations over the course of this website. For now, however, there is one point I need to make before we go any further.
I am not saying that being an "asshole" is bad and wrong. Similarly, I am not saying that an asshole is a bad person. Even though it sounds like I am making a person bad and wrong when I call them an "asshole", I am not. Being an asshole simply doesn't work in terms developing a life of the highest quality, and that's the point I am trying to make.
For now, it is time for us to move on. At last, we are ready to talk about you.
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