Testing What to Rely On: 06-17-2026

1. The surest way to know what you should truly follow is to test its hardness or softness. The softer the form, the more reliable it is. The best guidance is ultimately formless.
2. Test this by asking: Is it more like air or like earth? Air flows, adapts, and carries you effortlessly—it is reliable. Earth is solid and useful for information, but rigid and unfit for direction or control.
3. All mental objects are internal forms with varying degrees of hardness, just like everything else in existence.
4. Prove it to yourself: The harder the mental object, the more problems, failings, and suffering it will eventually lead to.
5. The longer you serve or follow rigid internal forms, the more destructive and disruptive the consequences become—and the scale of that destruction is directly proportional to their hardness.