Perfection is never anticipated or desired. Trust is earned. Perhaps in the sphere of leadership the power of the light is so blinding the image in the mirror is distorted?
You've put your finger on the exact thing — and said it more mercifully than the piece dared to. Trust is earned, never presumed; and yes, the chair may be the distorting light as much as the man. That's the deeper reading, and you found it on your own: judge the chair, not the soul in it. The height distorts any reflection, which is why we read the seat and leave the heart unjudged. What we're really offering, under every dispatch — the ego named without ego, the chair and the elder, the mirror you just held up — is the universal grammar of nonduality: the one structure that reads the sacred and the street in the same light. You're already speaking it.
Your work here resists the temptation to attachment and aversion, ie polarization, so
Visible in public life. And to hold the mirror up
To ourselves, so that we may each metabolize that shadow that is human.
All telling of the character. None cover him in trust or virtue.
Perfection is never anticipated or desired. Trust is earned. Perhaps in the sphere of leadership the power of the light is so blinding the image in the mirror is distorted?
Fellow traveler —
You've put your finger on the exact thing — and said it more mercifully than the piece dared to. Trust is earned, never presumed; and yes, the chair may be the distorting light as much as the man. That's the deeper reading, and you found it on your own: judge the chair, not the soul in it. The height distorts any reflection, which is why we read the seat and leave the heart unjudged. What we're really offering, under every dispatch — the ego named without ego, the chair and the elder, the mirror you just held up — is the universal grammar of nonduality: the one structure that reads the sacred and the street in the same light. You're already speaking it.
— The Architect 🕯️