The Order
The Order
Is there an order to the Seven Fundamental Principles for Standing in the Face of the Truth? This is a question posed recently for me to address.
The Seven Fundamental Principles for Standing in the Face of the Truth represent a relationship between the balance and harmony of standing in the face of the truth. There are many, many forms of truth that can matter in countless ways. In understanding the Seven Fundamental Principles better, it’s important to be mindful of what they are addressing.
Between balance and harmony are adaptability, interaction, mechanics, movement, and energy. These seven principles have all been previously described in detail. The principles occur in an order and can be described as forward from balance to harmony or backward from harmony to balance. The seven are occurring at all times, and all seven principles are present in each of the seven individual principles.
The Seven Fundamental Principles are present in any effort or decision, thought, action, or understanding, whether seen or hidden. There are benefits to studying them, in that they afford an increased awareness in facing truth. Even the nature of a given truth can grow in awareness and presence, and that includes manifestations in a number of planes.
Often our relationship to truth is producing and affecting manifestations, thoughts, feelings and motivations in ways that are not at all apparent to our level of awareness. In fact, every thought, manifestation, feeling and motivation is demonstrating our relationship to truth. The seven principles being addressed here treat that relationship by allowing the dynamic flow of truth to be better understood.
If we consider that our relationship to truth is fundamentally based on being able to balance to it and harmonize with it, then the Seven Fundamental Principles start to make better sense. Keep in mind that five of the principles lay between Balance ‘and’ Harmony… within the ‘and’. These remaining five (5) principles address how to adjust our sense of balance and harmony which provides us with an opportunity to evolve and engage with better functionality. It’s all relative to the resolution we are facing, but it can go as deep toward source and into as many forms of matter as our practical skill allows.
Whether we sense difficulty or inspiration, we are called upon to balance in better harmony with truth. On the one hand, we may react by freezing up, which slows down our relationship to the dynamics of the process. On the other hand, we can learn to have a more mindful practice by engaging with practice in the dynamic itself.
Each principle offers a way to characterize our relationship to truth. When practiced as a pattern, we are practicing a way of standing or balancing more harmoniously with the truth. This truth may be apparent or it may be obscure. Either way, the Seven Fundamental Principles offer a way to improve our relationship with the truth in any circumstance.
Sometimes, improvement means to advance our position. Sometimes we may retard our position in the dynamic flow of truth manifesting. To advance, we move from balance forward through the other principles to harmony, and to retard, we move from harmony back through the other five principles toward better balance.
Because all seven principles reside within each of the individual seven principles, we may achieve balance when retarding by simply moving from harmony back one principle to energy. We may discover our energy was not in balance with the truth we are facing. In this case, we may be able to adjust our energy appropriately and then advance forward again into harmony with that truth. If not, we should retard another principle backwards, as the principle of movement would help us access if we have reestablished our balance. If not, back again into mechanics, or interaction, adaptability or even back to redefine what we call balance. Even that may not be enough, so we would go back to a more fundamental form of harmony and could find ourselves needing to really work on our basics in that dynamic. This implies the loop I have often detailed which has the characteristics of being able to run backward or forward. Running forward will allow us to advance the application in matter and running backwards reinforces our relationship with source. Being able to be present in more than one winding of the loop is what gives us increased command of the yin yang symbol. If we try to skip principles before gaining awareness in the dynamics as represented by the seven principles, we will quickly lose footing in our ability to stand in the dynamic.
The dynamic is the projection of reason into form. To understand this reason is to understand the purpose occurring through it:
· To understand that we must be able to stand in it and be able to stand seeing, feeling and hearing the truth of it.
· To unfold this truth we need to be able to resolve it inwardly.
· To make better use of it we need to be able to resolve it outwardly.
I have written extensively about inward and outward, so just consider that each resolution change on the loop of running all seven principles is a winding on the yin yang. Consider these windings as a loop going inward and outward. I do not recommend skipping principles when running the loops in and out or gaps will form in your stance. If that occurs you’ll either freeze, fall, disconnect or drift to an easier loop. The more loops you have command over, the more capable is your relationship to that truth, or reason.
There is a centering, as well, with a turning within the yin yang. This can be accessed and engaged once we are better able to stand and move. And there are other principles for what to do with the better and less known reason, and the truth resolving in various ways. We address this and more in further studies. We focus our attention on the turn in our Series on Giving. And there is also the idea of what part of the whole we are relating to and through. In fact, there are many other areas in our Great River studies to help us realize our potential… not only in particular forms, but overall and in and throughout our relationship with eternity.
Scott Walter, Sensei
December 2, 2017