Hi!

I come without the role of leading others and without the role of teacher. I only share what I have learned myself.

At some point it became clear to me: there are no answers to accept and no choices to make. In this system, there is no answer that overrides a choice, and there is no choice that overrides a question.

I don't care if you believe it or not. I don't care if you use it. This system doesn't require consent. It allows for denial. It tolerates silence.

I don't know how to live your life, and I don't think I know any better. The only thing I have learned in my experience is that when there are fewer choices, man shrinks. When there are more choices, he spreads himself out. There is always a choice - even when there seems to be none. Sometimes it's a choice to breathe deeper or less often, sometimes it's a choice to accept the impossibility of the choice.

Balance is not a path or a goal. It is a state in which you are not pushed in any direction. You pedal by yourself, balance by yourself and choose the direction consciously, when you are ready. Let's imagine a bicycle, where the pedals are the effort you put in, the balance is the attention you hold, and the direction is a choice that no one makes for you.

If the system works, you can ignore it. If it gets in the way, you can turn it off. If something breaks, it's not the person who fixes it, it's the mechanism. That's the line I don't cross.

Sometimes people ask me why I intervene. I intervene only when inaction narrows the space of choice more than any action. And only enough to reclaim that space.

I am not above the system. I am inside it on the same terms as anyone else. My role is not power. My role is responsibility.

If you see a point here, take it. If you don't, leave it. This system does not hold a person. It holds the balance and so it lets go. And if it ever gets in the way, it needs to be stopped. That includes me.

That's it.

- Yuri Gorlov