The Opening Principles...

The opening principles that have guided this enquiry since its inception as a child...

1) Truth is worthy.
1.1) Falsehood is unworth.
2) The Truth is available at all times and places and to all people.
2.1) Anything which is particular to me, or which I have to gain or which I can lose, is by definition not the Truth.
3) Physical existence entails only what we Need for biology. (cf Buddha's "Middle Path")
4) What we call the "Natural World" is Reality and the "location" of Truth.
5) Peace and Truth are brothers.

It follows from these that if we understand the Natural World, live in Peace with it, seek only to Live within it, and aim for nothing which makes us different from another then we are in accordance with Truth.


There are other insights that direct this enquiry.


We can use Greed constructively like this. If I am alive and nourished then I should have no wish. If however I seek something non-essential then why when I have got it won't I seek something else... forever. Isn't it better to nip that "seeking" in the first place. This is what I am experimenting with at the moment. Certainly I have never been happy with what I have because the thought is always there "I can do better". It seems the only way to appreciate what I have is to just accept it, in which case why not just accept where I am now? This is hard, there are a million greeds ... most perplexingly this greed to be "doing something". This blog fails in a fundamental way at the moment because "I want to write it", I am still caught by the desire to "do" something. Now if I do succeed in doing it then I am depriving someone else of doing it. It cannot be the search which is important, only what is found, and this is True only if it is valuable for all.

"Doing" can never be a goal. But it seems that were all the things in the world to be made, and all the problems solved, then people would then be sitting around twitching and being bored. This seems to me to be the biggest problem which must be solved first. This is why I argue for unemployment and peacefully doing nothing as a fundamental skill to be learned. Think what a beautiful world it would be if everyone was happy doing nothing! That is the easiest and most enduring happiness.

Conversely then, the making must be judged by what is made, but importantly the "maker" must be considered independent of what is made (otherwise it is fascism). So in this sense Free Markets are correct in that they determine a value for things based upon what is made - however they are incorrect, like Democracy, in that the value of something like a Van Gogh or the Natural World is determined at a point in time with no regard for the future or Truth. They are also incorrect because they require production before consumption: consider wild food or the products of machinery. This small oversight will be the end of the world because it leads to over production as we must work before we eat, even when food is already plentiful.

If one extracts the arbitrary things from life the problems become clearer. Stripping away the fivolities of employment, families and property the core of life becomes clearer. I'm taking a big gamble in doing this it is granted, but in there somewhere behind the smokescreen of self-perpetuating busyness must lie the tail of the Ouroboros.