What Should You Rely On?: 06-18-2026

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 ultimately comes from the formless (Spirit) or moving (living) water.
2. Test what you are serving by asking, “Is it more like air, water, or earth?” Air and water flow, adapt, and carry you effortlessly—they are reliable. Earth is solid and useful for information, but rigid and unfit for direction or control because it is incapable of carrying you. Instead, it wants to be carried.
3. All mental objects are internal forms with varying degrees of hardness, just like everything else in existence (places and things). Following or serving mental objects as self, others, life, virtue, intelligence, or God will consistently lead to errors, failures, mistakes, and suffering.
4. Find out internally if this is true: The harder the mental object, the more problems, failings, and suffering it will eventually lead to if you continue to follow it, no matter how righteous or virtuous it sounds or claims to be.
5. The longer you serve or follow rigid internal forms (mental objects), the more destructive and disruptive the consequences become—and the scale of that destruction is directly proportional to their hardness and intractability. Instead, surrender to the formless and living water.