The
rubber meets the road when we practice Triadic Philosophy. The way this is done
involves stopping. This may be in solitude or in a crowd. The practice is
simply responding to a series of keywords that you bring up. In order they are:
Reality.
Word.
Ethics.
Tolerance,
helpfulness,
democracy.
Non-idolatry.
Aesthetics.
TruthBeauty,
BeautyTruth.
Expression.
Act.
When you start you develop your own mode. Simply allow it to roll out. Here is a sample in which the word that I used to name the reality is Diversity:
Reality.
Word.
Ethics.
Tolerance,
helpfulness,
democracy.
Non-idolatry.
Aesthetics.
TruthBeauty,
BeautyTruth.
Expression.
Act.
When you start you develop your own mode. Simply allow it to roll out. Here is a sample in which the word that I used to name the reality is Diversity:
Reality:
Diversity
Ethics:
Tolerance:
This very process of using a template for conscious considering of actions is
an acknowledgement of the reality of diversity, even as we consider things in
terms of the highest of values and the most efficacious triad for moving from
signs (words) through ethics to aesthetics (the state of action and
expression). The glory of tolerance is its recognition of incredible diversity
and its affirmation that all of this diversity has universal meaning. Each has
within the stuff, the patterns, the reality that infuses all creation.
Democracy:
In a functioning constitutional democracy, like the United States, we reckon
with diversity constantly and battle over how we will apportion our abundance.
Back and forth we go and in doing so (when our better angels rule) we progress.
Without democracy the possibility of ethical action diminishes. Ultimately
democracy will be the polity that underlies the entire world. Imperfect,
fallible, but the best system for the realization of all.
Helpfulness:
Diversity becomes helpful to the extent that its virtues are manifest. When we
become aware that it is in the gifts of all that we most shine forth, we hold
up diversity as a banner of fulfillment, not a cause for fear and resentment.
On the other hand as the world moves more toward consciousness, we see that one
of the least helpful syndromes is the tendency of individual elements in a
gathering to assume that they possess the truth that must apply to all. This is
accentuated when groups idolize their own benchmarks to the exclusion of others
virtues. The bottom line is that help should be equally available to all
regardless.
Non-idolatry:
There is no idolatry more insidious than that which rises from such forces as
nationalism, religious prejudice and racial or cultural bias. All of these tend
to create hierarchies based on false premises. Ultimately all elements of our
diverse humanity contain the same potentials, the same mental capacities and
the same status as members of the universal human family. Humility is the main
application of non-idolatry to diversity. Humility before the fallibility that
exists universally and thanksgiving for the grace that enables any individual
to make progress.
Aesthetics:
Truth
Beauty: Diversity is literally the foundation of life itself. We cannot begin
to think at all unless anything that rises meets something that is not it,
something different, something that it must relate to in order to even emerge
into consciousness. The act of thinking spawns an infinite diversity.
EXPRESSION:
Diversity is reality.
ACTION:
Celebrate diversity.
