DEEPER PRINCIPLES *****Recommended
Deeper Principles
Teacher: Scott Walter, Sensei
The Unknown
Once we’re in the unknown, we need to use the trail guides: Principles
Q: In my years of being your student, you have consistently and constantly put great emphasis on the value of principles. I have studied “The Seven Fundamental Principles for Standing in the Face of the Truth,” the four principles of “The Art of Giving,” and more. Depending on the circumstances, some principles are clearly more timely to consider and apply in the moment than others, because there are times and circumstances in our lives when one principle may resonate more for us than another. Taking that into account, there are particular principles that ‘jump off the page’ more often; in other words, they seem to have a broader, more frequent or deeper application. What are the deeper or deepest principles? And, is the approach to the deepest principles a process where we must first become adept and proficient at more basic principles?
A: The deeper Principles are Love, Faith, Truth, Understanding, Goodness, Commitment and more. It’s easy to consider a useful meaning for these and others and that is what we do and often what we want our religions to do for us.
To go more effectively into the moment we have to have a way of being in the moment that provides an experience in the variables that are inherent in the potential. When we hold to fixed ideas, we cannot flex into the variations that can hold greater and lesser values to our reasoning. The principles I teach are many and I have taught extensively about sincerity, forgiveness, yin-yang, eternal awareness, presence, energetics, right and wrong, love, truth, faith, unconditional commitment, evolution, Buddhism, Christianity, Taoism, Hinduism, Sufism, Creation, and countless others.
The principles you cited are the Seven Fundamental Principles for Standing in the Face of the Truth, and the Basic Principles of Giving, which is The Essence of Our Reason For Being. These two sets of principles serve these functions. Others serve in other unique ways. The Current of Life and the Current Moment is an expression of the Everything and our relationship to that Everything is through our abilities to conduct the Principles of the Everything. Each principle addresses a particular aspect or way of being in the Everything.
Are some principles more important than others? Each has its own relationship to the Nature of the Everything. Some are better understood when others are being coordinated. When we coordinate, we actually engage in those points inside the Everything according to our relationships with those points of being.
The Values of differing principles are not equivalent and our applications of the principles we live in harmony with are not equivalent with someone else’s.
We all exist in the Everything, but our addresses are different. So are our manners of being. Some principles are often understood some distance away from their points of origin. We often live with these watered down versions. Its the same principle, but it can be resolving at many points of value.
Each principle represents another aspect of being. What is more or less important depends on the reference value. We cannot even successfully consider our truer reasons for being when we live our lives centering on the lesser versions of those inner reasons.
So, I present the principles for standing in the face of the Truth so people can have a more stable sense of balance and a more open heart for harmony when they are facing the deeper truths of Being in the Moment. The principles of Giving help us become aware of the Value of our lives in those Moments. Combined we are able to focus our efforts into better service.
Sometimes Principles and Truths become fashionable and we lose the actualizing to temporal expression. Sometimes Truths and even Love can be used as very hurtful weapons, injuring the Hearts and Hopes of others and ourselves.
As we study and practice to be more in line with what we want our Eternal Relationship to be more about, we begin to see Principles in more meaningful ways. There are Beings living in Harmony at every step in the value of every Principle. The Principle Position in the Principle itself is the position in that way of Being that is closest to what we can call the Lord.
Some Principles help to provide us with a Rudder and Compass in the Current of the Great River. Some help us Navigate with those tools. Some are what we are navigating through, some are how we are being in the moment of these happenings. Some are fundamental to our manner and some are fundamental to our movement and change. Some are key to problematics and some to solution, some matter oriented and some sourceful. They all have their source in the direction of source, but they do not all honor source equally. It is those differences that create difference itself. Some measure the difference, some the similarities. Some lead us homeward and some away. And there is a differing definition of home for value in the living of reason and a similar one present in every difference.
Principles express the creation and everythingness in every way that is. On the matter end, the principles turn into rules. On the source end, principles turn into understandings. What is most important to the Lord is not what is most important to everything else. So what are the most important Principles? We are living examples of our individual and collective answers to that question.
Scott Walter, Sensei
August 4, 2009
Deeper Principles
© 2009 by Great River Institute
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