The Levels of Nature

Nature has a plan. The plan runs by specific procedures and processes. The plan states specific non-negotiable procedures that are written in stone. The processes are those events that build life from the overall plan and by the procedures that govern nature's way.

If we are lucky we are born. There is no shortcut in this process. There is a joining of Yin to Yang creating life. Nature has some rules that have some wiggle room that create either male or female.

At our birth and when our senses begin to receive input from the world that surrounds us they feed the mind all sorts of information. The information is without fault, without restrictions and without any obstacles. It comes in, the mind starts to process it instinctively and then the mind begins to create a filter that I call our perceptive-filters. The filters change, adjust and create new ways from the information processed by the senses.

As we progress in our lives we must go through specific stages or levels. There is no quick way around these levels. Each level must be passed through and lived to reach the next level in life. How we transgress through the levels depends on the information the senses encounter and how they are encoded by our perceptive-filtering systems. We don't just get born and suddenly achieve adulthood with knowledge, understanding and ability to live life as intended by many of nature's requirements and factors.

The levels are youngster, adulthood and elderly. You have to travel through all of these levels as well as the many sub-levels that are within each of these three main levels of life - there is no other way, no other path and no other step that bypasses this rule of nature, nature's law.

A combination of senses, sense input, perceptive filtering provide us the guiding light that helps us to see our path in life. There is no other way, method or path that can take us around any of these requirements of life.

How we life life in the three main stages is determined by our actions, our intentions and our perceptions. These grow and build over time. Time is what we use for our dojo to practice life's requirements. Any part subjected to less than complete study and contemplation results in an omission that will impact the entire life process. This is what I believe results in such as good vs. bad and the many levels in between.

The levels of nature are written in stone and we cannot subvert them to our individual needs, i.e. pass them to achieve the more fun aspects of life. We have to endure all of life's events, bad and good, to achieve balance, equilibrium, enlightenment.

Why would we even consider trying to short cut the path? Mastery of life means we live it in its entirety with out short cuts or quick fixes. We travel the path for the enjoyment of the journey. The side shows are merely a form of enjoyment to be experienced and then we move on. To focus on any one and to remain fixed on it stops the progress along the path. Why would we want to do that?

Waxing philosophical. Is our practice of martial systems much different?