Synchronicity is a weird thing. I posted a, (very brief…never caught on), thread about fate and responsibility a few days back..or rather on drawing the lines between the random chaotic factor that sometimes things just happen, versus those situations that we bring upon ourselves...basically choice vs fate.
At the same time I was following the rather interesting thread on Lucifer and religion and the terms LHP and RHP obviously sprang up. Now I may be wrong in my interpretation, but in broad terms I read the RHP as being determinist and fatalistic while the LHP is more choice and consequences orientated. (I’m probably going to get flamed by both sides…but that’s what happens when you choose neither.) Regardless, I’ve never been able to determine on which path I’m supposedly treading…so I decided to make up my own one. And so, without any fanfare or dancing elephants…I hereby wish to propose another path…the ambidextrous one.
OK, so what is the ambidextrous path?…well, as advertised…it’s both and neither and it’s not in the middle of the other two. It posits that chaos and randomness are at the center of all things, therefore the way to make the best decisions in any situation is to make no decisions at all. If heads be Coke and Tails be Pepsi…flip the coin and walk out with a coconut and a rubber chicken. It is the true path of the Khaot.
....I take no credit for this little parable.Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
The current of the river swept silently over them all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going it's own way, knowing only it's own crystal self.
Each creature in it's own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth.
But one creature said at last, 'I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.
The other creatures laughed and said, 'Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed against the rocks, and you will die quicker than boredom!'
But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks.
Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more.
And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried 'See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah come to save us all!
However, what path did that messiah choose? By abandoning all paths he exists effortlessly. Of course some will say, “yea, but as he’s at the mercy of the current he has no choice in the matter…so that’s actually pure fatalism? “
I say, at that point, the rules change and he has the capability to direct himself within current as he wishes....or even the current itself. The current is only harmful to those with solid form, abandon all form, all belief and what is left? …merely the current.
The Ambidextrous path is both and neither deterministic nor fatalistic, in fact cogitating on how a situation arose, be it by fate or foolishness is in fact a fool’s game, for the only thing history has ever taught us is that we never learn from it. Instead, it focuses on how to best deal with any situation we might find ourselves in. It is not for the faint of heart and there can be no fear. Under such a paradigm, fear is a form because fear stems from belief.
We are conditioned to believe in certainties…ABANDON THEM…for once you have learned to think in constant uncertainty, you can choose any form you wish, knowing it is but a transient mask, to be discarded at will.
This sounds like a simple path to tread…for there is nothing to do, nothing to believe...
however, one must not mistake a clear view, with a short journey.
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