How we live.

There is a way of life, in which we desire something, plan for how to achieve it based on our past knowledge and then execute our plan, therefore coloring the word through the lens of this objective. 

We may enhance the scope of this objective to include an extended idea of the self, one which may encompass ourselves friends, community, city, state, country or all of the world. In doing so we may find purpose, obtain great satisfaction in the expression of our thought, and utilize our knowledge and thinking abilities to the fullest extent. 

Absorbed in a grand objective we may find that the weight of this life reduces and while the anxiety of achieving the objective may acompany us, this anxiety and suffering carves out of us a personality. 

However, our knowledge, memory and capacity to plan is limited. In the process of planning for the objective we live in the future, in the process of using our past knowledge we live in the past. In forming the original objective we use our being, which is the past. Allowing no time for a present.

We may conclude that this is all there can be done and allow this imperfect action. This may seem a rather obvious conclusion knowing that the knowledge is infinite and we may acquire more of it but never reach 'all of it' and since we must act we can act based on only on our limitations.

However for whatever reason, we may see the danger of this, and may stop this cycle and look for an alternate way. Once and for all. 

Free from the objective based image-making, from any expectation from the future, from any idea of an objective which is based on ideas of right and wrong. Free from purposes and duties. Free from past and future, therefore of time. Free from the idea of thought and all its creations, including the self.

The man who has the disease of tomorrow is the most unfortunate man in the world. ~ Gurdjieff 

There is a place, beyond right doing and wrong doing, I will meet you there.  ~ Rumi.

Good actions and bad actions both bind you. Good with chains of gold and bad with those of steel. ~ Agastya 

PS. Fun fact : Tradition is derived from the word 'Tradere' which also meant betrayal.