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FATHOMING INFINITY

The Wisdom Paradox: Open-Minded Discernment
The Physiology of Awareness

Wisdom is not an attitude or belief.
It is a physiological state of being — a state of mind, a state of nervous-system clarity.

“Be like water.” — Bruce Lee
Water does not hesitate.
It also does not panic.

Water knows the difference between:

  • Yielding but not collapsing
  • Flowing but not leaking
  • Accepting the situation but not being controlled by it

People speak poetically about “expanding bandwidth,” yet in practice it often becomes:

  • porous instead of perceptive
  • overwhelmed instead of open
  • influenced instead of informed
  • scattered instead of flexible

Being open-minded with discernment is not common — because it is not merely psychological.
It is somatic — a nervous-system capacity.


Narrow Bandwidth — The Small World

People stay narrow because:

  • It feels safe.
  • It preserves identity.
  • It avoids conflict.
  • It requires no inner development.

“The mind narrows to protect the self —
but the self is often what needs to grow.”

The narrow bandwidth becomes a closed loop of familiar thoughts — protective but confining.


Expansion Without Discernment — The Leak

Some attempt expansion by:

  • adopting others’ beliefs
  • trying every practice, every method
  • mistaking novelty for evolution

This isn’t growth — it’s osmosis.

The membrane is gone — everything flows in.

“A bucket with no bottom doesn’t hold more — it holds nothing.”

Bandwidth increased, but integrity was lost.


Expansion With Discernment — The Water Model

Not narrow.
Not porous.
But permeable with intelligence.

Water touches everything,
learns the terrain,
responds —
but remains water.

“Water is completely open —
yet never unconcerned with direction.”

Open does not mean unguarded.
Flexible does not mean formless.
Receptive does not mean impressionable.

“Bandwidth without boundaries is just noise.
Bandwidth with discernment becomes signal.”

Growing wiser doesn’t mean thinking more —
It means knowing what deserves thought.

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Discretion is the Better Part of Valor

Let steady precision carry you (Dhanurveda). True valor is rooted in the Divinity within us all and commitment to that purpose. Yet these days, discretion has given way to righteous indignation…force.  Thanksgiving Reminder?

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The Architecture of Strength

Let steady precision — not force — carry you.

Bruce Lee said, “Power comes from discipline.”
But where does discipline come from?

True discipline does not come from forcing yourself.
It comes from fascination.

Fascination is the engine that propels all of life.
It is the opposite of force.
The opposite of tension.
The opposite of doubt.

Fascination is love.
When you are fascinated by something, you are seeing the Divinity within it.

Fascination contains love, logic, power, commitment, steadfastness, vision, understanding, and purpose.
It is why we devote ourselves.
Why we build.
Why we endure.
Why we move forward, forward, always forward.

I have dedicated my life to Mt Soma because it fascinates me — the idea of creating something that heals humanity, ends suffering, and brings fulfillment to all.
That is life’s ultimate purpose. Isn’t it?
And fascination is what gives us the strength to pursue it.

🎯 Dhanurveda: The Vedic Architecture of Strength

Dhanurveda — the Vedic science of archery — is not just about combat.
It is about life.
Life is archery.
Every action is an arrow.

The classical sequence is universal:

1. Root → Prithvi (Earth)

The archer first roots into the earth.
Stability, grounding, immovability.
Everything begins with connection to the ground. the earth, the essence, the Absolute, the Transcendent.

2. Align → Sushumnā (Central Channel)

Before drawing the bow, the warrior “straightens the inner channel.”
This is the vertical alignment of the spine and pranic current.
 “the current rises upward” 

3. Open → Hṛdaya (Heart Expansion)

Just before release, the chest and inner being must open, not contract.
Open = clarity, fluidity, non-resistance.
This is the internal “opening of the channel.”

4. Drive → Mokṣa (Release)

The release is effortless, committed, precise action.
Not forced, but unified.
This is your “Drive.”

 Root → Align → Open → Drive — maps exactly onto:
Prithvi → Sushumnā → Hṛdaya → Mokṣa.
It is the energetic and biomechanical logic of classical archery, of perfect Sumo, and of life itself.

🧠 CNS Insight: The Real Barrier to Strength

Deep in the tendons live the Golgi Tendon Organs (GTOs).
These sensors shut down force output when tension spikes suddenly or when the pattern feels unsafe.
When GTOs trigger, they can take 48–72 hours to reset.

This is why a lift can feel smooth one moment and impossible the next.
The nervous system protects long before the mind understands.

Body (muscle): fear → locks up
Mind: doubt → blocks

Both stop movement.
Both stop life.
And both can be dissolved.

 Closing Thought

True strength is not force.
It is fascination organized into precision.
When the root is stable, the channel aligned, the heart open, and the release clean — strength emerges effortlessly.

That is the architecture of strength — in the gym, in Dhanurveda, and in life.

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Relative Worlds Key toward Perfection

How to get out of your own way: Mind and Body

body [muscle]: fears → locks up

mind: doubts → blocks

Both stop movement. Both stop life.

Both can be dissolved.

CNS: golgi organs in tendons blocks [once triggered takes 48-72 hours to reset GTOs monitor sudden spikes in tension.

The four Dhanurvedic aspects, aligned to daily life/Sumo: 

Root → Align → Open → Action [Sumo:Drive]:

🌿 Dhanurveda 

1. Root → Prithvi (Earth)

In Dhanurveda, the archer must first root into the earth.
Stability, grounding, immovability.
Everything begins with connection to the ground.

2. Align → Sushumnā (Central Channel)

Before drawing the bow, the warrior “straightens the inner channel.”
This is the vertical alignment of spine + pranic current.
Your “current aligns upward” is exactly this.

3. Open → Hṛdaya (Heart Expansion)

Just before release, the chest and energetic center must open, not contract.
Open = clarity, fluidity, non-resistance.
 “channel opens” 

4. Drive → Mokṣa / Release (The Arrow’s Flight)

The release is effortless, precise action.
Not forced — but clean, committed, unified.
This is your “Drive.”

🔱 Your Mantra is a Perfect Dhanurvedic Sequence

Root → Align → Open → Drive
maps exactly to:

Prithvi → Sushumnā → Hṛdaya → Mokṣa

It is literally the energetic and biomechanical logic of classical archery — and of perfect Sumo, of all life.

CNS Insight

The Golgi tendon organs (GTOs) — deep sensors in the tendons —
shut down force output when tension spikes suddenly or when a pattern feels unsafe.
Once triggered, they may take 48–72 hours to reset.
This is why a lift can feel easy one moment, then impossible the next.

The nervous system “protects” long before the mind even understands what happened.

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Cosmic Weather: Perspectives Unleashed

Progress Doesn’t Always Feel Like Progress While You’re In It …  crazy times … The Big Picture is really so simple

Space has weather patterns.  Weather affects the psyche.

You don’t have to feel confident to be successful — you just have to keep functioning like someone who’s going to get there.

The world situation today – nuts really… The big picture is yet so simple. It will all come out in the wash…

It is all perspective – big picture.  Are these times terrible.  AI, politics, left right, up down, phase transition.  It is all sorting out.  Nothing is really happening, does all this really matter?  

life’s purpose

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