Being Integrity

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Walk the Path

walk the path.

walk it again.
walk it with full awareness,
full presence. turn.
do it again.

walk the path.
do not think.
just walk the path
with full presence.

watch the arising of
ten thousand things

and their passing away.
turn.
do it again.

Ontology and Name-and-Form

Ontology is very powerful. Everyone has a background of knowledge, experience and language in which we reflect our experience. That context is what gives life meaning. The science and art of becoming is to consciously create an ontology that provides a particular meaning, leading toward a specific state of being.

For example, doing integrity work on a daily basis builds an ontology of integrity that ultimately makes it possible to become a person of integrity, for whom integrity is a spontaneous natural self-expression. The practice becomes almost effortless based on methodical preparation. Weaving a matrix of terminology related to the desired state of being is the work. You can do it through analysis of a Master’s work, but ultimately you have to master that technique yourself.

The Buddha’s analysis and description of the process of becoming is very powerful. He emphasizes terminology (name and the form it represents) as the conditioning cause of consciousness, and consciousness as the conditioning cause of name-and-form. Once the pathways of expression are determined, the process of becoming takes over. Like falling dominos, a causal chain is set up that brings into being the thing or state we envision and define.

In the illustration at the top, we show how intention or fabrication causes consciousness, consciousness causes name-and-form, and then these two begin to condition one another like a whirlpool. Consciousness needs name-and-form as a object, and name-and-form needs consciousness to exist. They engage in a codependent relationship that creates a vortex of energy.

This vortex in turn creates the appearance of a ‘thing’, an apparently independently-existing object. Our world is populated with ‘things’ that we bring into existence by intention or desire, consciousness and name-and-form. This is how we create our world.

The State of The Dharmasar Solution

The Dharmasar Solution is a big piece of work: a bridge from western philosophy to the teaching of the Buddha. I’ve been developing it for over two years now, and it’s nowhere near done. The basic arch is complete; to make it useful, now we have to build the rest.

Integrity and the System

“Most people have had to sell themselves at some time, it just happened that I didn’t. And this is unforgivable.”

— Roberto Saviano, author of My life under armed guard (theguardian.com)

Most of us sell out at some time in our lives. We know the System is flawed, corrupt, criminal. But we do it anyway because we want the benefits of the System’s support: convenience, money, luxury, position, reputation, power. The seductive power of the Dark Side is almost impossible to resist.

Crisis of Truthfulness and Leadership

Some people think I’m joking when I say that integrity, especially truthfulness, is the most important quality of a human being. But here’s a well-researched article that supports all my points:

Crisis of Truthfulness in Business—Truth-Telling Without ‘Spin’—Lost Virtue in Workplaces: Lessons on Truthfulness from Islam

We go deep into the subject of integrity according to the teaching of the Buddha in our podcast series Being Integrity.