B 3.7.4 How does the “ACT” step unfold?
3.7.4 How does the Act step unfold?
There are ten conditions, not nine. There are ten conditions, not eleven. Every situation you are set face to face with, in reality, can be understood as configured in the terms of these ten conditions – karma space and time; physical, emotional and intellectual limiting factors moral and social constraints, political and economic pressures.
The Input step, the analysis of the situation, is completed. The Pivot step, the lightning flash of intuitive understanding creating the possibility of harmoniously transforming the balance of power, is completed. Now is the time to Act.
The Action you take should flow harmoniously from your circumstances. Through understanding your experience, your intuition will guide you towards the next step. Learn to act on the still, quiet voice of your intuition.
For your Action to avoid incurring negative karmic consequences, it should not interfere with people or things. To interfere is an act of self-will and goes against the flow of reality. Reality is a harmonious, self-balancing, unity; if you act against the natural flow of events you will, sooner or later, incur a corresponding negative reaction.
When you Act, just let things happen, easily and naturally, within yourself and in terms of your behaviour towards other people and things. In every situation, no matter how apparently hopeless, there is always power for you to use harmoniously. If you wield and yield to power in an organic, flowing way, reality will unfold in its own manner.
“There are ten conditions, not nine. There are ten conditions, not eleven.”
I nearly fell over when I first read that. Does anyone have a view as to how the ten conditions correspond to the sephiroth?
My own view is:
Karma
time – – space
Economic – – Social
Political
Mental – – Emotional
Moral
Physical