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January 16, 2025
“To Go Against the Evolution of Things is to Go Against Oneself”
Last time: Stories and the Game of Ask!
This time: Is it dusk or dawn? The Game of Name It!
January 9, 2025
“To Go Against the Evolution of Things is to Go Against Oneself”
Last time: A New Cycle. New Paths.
This time: More Stories, The Game of Ask About It!
January 2, 2025
“To Go Against the Evolution of Things is to Go Against Oneself”
Last time: Changing your Destiny
This time: A New Cycle, New Paths, a Story, and of course a Game!
December 26, 2024
Principle 12. Accumulating Actions. Week 4
“Contradictory and unifying acts accumulate within you. If you repeat your acts of internal unity, then nothing can detain you.”
Last Time: Inside and Outside.
This time: Changing Your Destiny.
December 19, 2024
Principle 12. Accumulating Actions. Week 3
“Contradictory and unifying acts accumulate within you. If you repeat your acts of internal unity, then nothing can detain you.”
Last Time: Words of Wisdom
This time: Memory and Actions, The Internal and The External
December 12, 2024
Principle 12. Accumulating Actions. Week 2
“Contradictory and unifying acts accumulate within you. If you repeat your acts of internal unity, then nothing can detain you.”
Last Time: From Tiny Acorns
This time: Words of Wisdom From the Ancient Child
December 5, 2024
Principle 12. Accumulating Actions. Week 1
“Contradictory and unifying acts accumulate within you. If you repeat your acts of internal unity, then nothing can detain you.”
Last time: If I’m Not That, What Am I?
This time: From Tiny Acorns.
November 28, 2024
Principle 11. Negation of Opposites. Week 5
“It does not matter in what faction events have placed you what matters is for you to understand that you have not chosen any faction.”
Last Time: If I’m Not That, What Am I?
This Time: Principles and Platitudes (and a lame joke)
November 21, 2024
Principle 11. Negation of Opposites. Week 4
“It does not matter in what faction events have placed you what matters is for you to understand that you have not chosen any faction.”
Last time: Whose Faction?
This Time: If I’m Not That, What Am I?
November 14, 2024
Principle 11. Negation of Opposites. Week 3
“It does not matter in what faction events have placed you what matters is for you to understand that you have not chosen any faction.”
Last time: Rabbits and Ducks
This Time: Whose faction?
November 8, 2024
Principle 11. Negation of Opposites. Week 2
“It does not matter in what faction events have placed you what matters is for you to understand that you have not chosen any faction.”
Last time: My beliefs, your beliefs.
This time: Various Ducks or Various Rabbits
November 1, 2024
Principle 11. Negation of Opposites. Week 1
“It does not matter in what faction events have placed you what matters is for you to understand that you have not chosen any faction.”
Last time: Even Other Species.
This time: My beliefs, your beliefs.
And a couple of stories, a poem, and a song.
October 24, 2024
Principle 10. Solidarity. Week 5
When You Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You, You Liberate Yourself.
Last time: Others and Even Other Critters Too?
This time: As time goes by…
October 17, 2024
Principle 10. Solidarity. Week 4
When You Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You, You Liberate Yourself.
Last time: The Other.
This time: Others, and Even Other Critters Too?
October 11, 2024
Principle 10. Solidarity. Week 3
When You Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You, You Liberate Yourself.
Last time: The Social Dimension
This time: The Other
October 4, 2024
Principle 10. Solidarity. Week 2
When You Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You, You Liberate Yourself.
Last time: The Key (and Houdini enchained)
This time: The Social Dimension
October 1, 2024
Principle 10. Solidarity. Week 1
When You Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You, You Liberate Yourself.
Last time: The Future and What is it that I Want?
This Time: The Key (and another photo of Houdini)
September 20, 2024
Principle 9. Liberty. Week 4
“When You Harm Others You Remain Enchained, But If You Do Not Harm Anyone You May Freely Do Whatever You Want”.
Last time: The Internal Judge
This time: The Future and What is it that I Want?
September 13, 2024
Principle 9. Liberty. Week 3
“When You Harm Others You Remain Enchained, But If You Do Not Harm Anyone You May Freely Do Whatever You Want”.
Last time: Do No Harm!
This time: The Inner Judge!
September 7, 2024
Principle 9. Liberty. Week 2
“When You Harm Others You Remain Enchained, But If You Do Not Harm Anyone You May Freely Do Whatever You Want”.
Last time: A Radical Proposal
This time: Do No Harm!
September 1, 2024
Principle 9. Liberty. Week 1
“When You Harm Others You Remain Enchained, But If You Do Not Harm Anyone You May Freely Do Whatever You Want”.
Last time: Out Growing the Old
This time: A Radical Proposal and a footnote*
August 22, 2024
Principle 8. Comprehended Action. Week 4
You Will Make Your Conflicts Disappear When You Understand Them In Their Ultimate Root, Not When You Want To Resolve Them
Last time: Phantoms and Laughs
This time: Outgrowing old beliefs and ideas
August 15, 2024
Principle 8. Comprehended Action. Week 3
You Will Make Your Conflicts Disappear When You Understand Them In Their Ultimate Root, Not When You Want To Resolve Them
Last time: Conflicts and Contradictions.
This time: Phantoms and Laughs
August 8, 2024
Principle 8. Comprehended Action. Week 2
You Will Make Your Conflicts Disappear When You Understand Them In Their Ultimate Root, Not When You Want To Resolve Them
Last time: Tale of a Blanket.
This time: Conflicts and Contradictions.
August 2, 2024
Principle 8. Comprehended Action. Week 1
You Will Make Your Conflicts Disappear When You Understand Them In Their Ultimate Root, Not When You Want To Resolve Them
Last time: A New Way of Doing
This time: A story
July 25, 2024
Principle 7. Immediate Action. Fifth Week.
If you pursue an end, you enchain yourself. If everything you do is realized as an end in itself, you liberate yourself.
Last time: Equilibrium
This Time: Taking Stock
July 18, 2024
Principle 7. Immediate Action. Fourth Week.
If you pursue an end, you enchain yourself. If everything you do is realized as an end in itself, you liberate yourself.
Last time: Equilibrium
This Time: Reveries
July 10, 2024
Principle 7. Immediate Action. Third Week.
If you pursue an end, you enchain yourself. If everything you do is realized as an end in itself, you liberate yourself.
Last time: Scaffold or Building?
This Time: Equilibrium
July 4, 2024
Principle 7. Immediate Action. Second Week.
If you pursue an end, you enchain yourself. If everything you do is realized as an end in itself, you liberate yourself.
Last time: A New Way of Doing
This time: Scaffold or the Building
June 27, 2024
Principle 7. Immediate Action. First Week.
If you pursue an end, you enchain yourself. If everything you do is realized as an end in itself, you liberate yourself.
Last time: A Look Ahead
This time: A New Way of Doing
June 21, 2024
Principle 6. Pleasure. Fourth Week
“If you pursue pleasure, you enchain yourself to suffering. But as long as you do not harm your health, enjoy without inhibition when the opportunity presents itself.”
Last time: Neither the Carrot nor the Stick.
This time: A Look Ahead
June 14, 2024
Principle 6. Pleasure. Third Week
“If you pursue pleasure, you enchain yourself to suffering. But as long as you do not harm your health, enjoy without inhibition when the opportunity presents itself.”
Last time: To Eat or Not to Eat.
This Time: Neither the Carrot nor the Stick.
June 7, 2024
Principle 6. Pleasure. Second Week
“If you pursue pleasure, you enchain yourself to suffering. But as long as you do not harm your health, enjoy without inhibition when the opportunity presents itself.”
Last time: How to Have Your Cake and Eat It Too.
This Time: To Eat or Not to Eat.
June 1, 2024
Principle 6. Pleasure. First Week
“If you pursue pleasure, you enchain yourself to suffering. But as long as you do not harm your health, enjoy without inhibition when the opportunity presents itself.”
Last time: The Illusion That Things Don’t Change
This Time: How to Have Your Cake (or Ask About It) and Eat It Too.
May 23, 2024
Principle 5. Acceptance. Fourth Week.
If day and night, summer and winter are well with you, you have surpassed the contradictions.
Last time: Inner War — Inner Peace
This Time: The Illusion That Things Don’t Change
May 16, 2024
Principle 5. Acceptance. Third Week. The Present. Name it!
If day and night, summer and winter are well with you, you have surpassed the contradictions.
In order to help ourselves see the principle in new ways we will over the next weeks, play specific “games” as well as consider the principle in the light of the past, present, and future situations.
Last time: East Meets West
This time: Inner War — Inner Peace.
May 9, 2024
Principle 5. Acceptance. Second Week.
If day and night, summer and winter are well with you, you have surpassed the contradictions.
In order to help ourselves see the principle in new ways we will, over the next weeks, play specific “games” as well as consider the principle in the light of the past, present, and future situations.
This Week:
- Consider this principle in light of the past
-Play the game of Ask About It!
May 2, 2024
Principle 5. Acceptance. First Week.
If day and night, summer and winter are well with you, you have surpassed the contradictions.
In order to help ourselves see the principle in new ways we will, over the next weeks, play specific “games” as well as consider the principle in the light of the past, present, and future situations.
To do list for this week:
-consider the general structure and implications of this principle.
-play the game of Find It!
April 25, 2024
Principle 4. Proportion. Fifth Week.
Things Are Well When They Move Together Not In Isolation.
April 18, 2024
Principle 4. Proportion. Fourth Week.
Things Are Well When They Move Together Not In Isolation.
Play the game of Explain It!
April 12, 2024
Principle 4. Proportion. Third Week.
Things Are Well When They Move Together Not In Isolation.
My Present Situation, and the game of Name It! Read More…
April 5, 2024
Principle 4. Proportion. Second Week.
Things Are Well When They Move Together Not In Isolation.
To do list for this week:
- Consider this principle in light of the past
-Play the game of Ask About It! Read More…
April 5, 2024
Principle 4. Proportion. First Week.
Things Are Well When They Move Together Not In Isolation.
To do list for this week:
-consider the general structure and implications of this principle.
-play the game of Find It! Read More…
PATANJALI CIRCUS AND OTHER ANECDOTES - A book by Daniel Zuckerbrot
February 21, 2024
"These anecdotes could be seen as a brief but forceful essay on the theme of"illusion". It could also be said that these stories give an account of an apparent"behavioral pathology", but in the broad sense it is not the case, since to a large extent it is something that happens to us humans on a daily basis. Each story shows that relationship of"disengagement" with what happens externally, which seems to me so much part of our current times, so relevant at a time when the world is accelerating dizzyingly in a crisis in which everything seems to be "out of control", and yet the "mental" or internal dimension can function in its own way, giving us the possibility of changing our own vision of what happens, gaining in options and freedom."
Rafael Edwards
Los Manantiales Park of Study and Reflection, Chile. March 2022
THE PRINCIPLES OF VALID ACTION ARCHIVES
The links below are to documents containing several weeks of postings with reflections on each one of the twelve Principles of Valid Action
