A Mason's Work

At a sort of philosophical or systemic level, the world operates kind of with you through

you and without you at the same time.

When you look at the way the world is, if you will, it contains all things without definition,

without holding onto them, without clinging.

It is a story in motion, kind of perpetual motion, where you can influence and be influenced

by it.

In the same way, you can see you outside and see a beautiful sunrise, and that could be

the one sunrise that changes your life.

The world has this deep and profound interconnectedness that you have to begin to at least fathom

at your periphery in order for you to be able to really become part of the change you

want to see.

You start to move out of this operator model that you had at level one, and this experimental

model you had at level two, and you begin to approach the world in the underpinning

of Gandhi's quote about be the change you want to see in the world.

You become a living part of that organism, if you will, or that system of interconnected

pieces and parts and holes and sub-holes and societies and cultures and the vast array

of things.

What remains true at all levels of the world as symbol is that it really doesn't care

much for your opinion of it, if you will.

You don't get to say, I think this is the way things should be.

It just is.

This is the way it is.

And if you want to change it, you have to add energy to that system in some way or another

for it to create an abundance of energy here, to fill a deficit there, to do X or Y or

Z.

At this systemic level, we are all doing this kind of all the time, and it is what is moving

us from where we came from, the caves or what have you, all the way through to the future,

where there is just a blissful human condition.

As we take part in that process, the people that can appreciate the systemic nature of this

and understand how to best apply it are the ones that will be most successful at creating

change.

You are going to learn as you progress how to move into and out of the world to the

lodge through the other sort of adjacent spaces to work in, so that you can essentially practice

with other, you know, maasons or other people in your, your sangha or your church or whatever,

that you can bring them together to learn from everyone's collective experience to deepen

the interrelatedness and then that will have a sort of systemic impact to the positive

for everyone in your local group and by extension everyone in the world.

When you get this and a lot of people get it, you know, get peak experiences of this through

drugs or things like that or, you know, long hours of meditation, but when you get to this

level of understanding of how the world works, it immediately lowers the temperature on

your suffering experience to a degree.

That doesn't mean the pain goes away, but it means that you're clinging to the experiences

you have, stops being so persistent and you can appreciate the larger systems at play.

This is a lot more like a video game than you think and you'll find out even more about

that tomorrow.