You Must Believe In Yourself🇬🇧🇳🇱

One of the easiest mistakes to make when you first hear of the Philosophy of Balance is to assume that it is most important that everything must be balanced. This assumption is false. In fact, imbalance is a necessity of life.

The Philosophy of Balance says that we should strive for balance, but that at the same time, this strive for balance must itself be balanced too. Balance is the ideal, but as with any form of idealism, we must accept that we cannot attain it.

Across cultures and across religions, we see that people have a fundamental right to self-defence. No one can or may ever take away your self-determination to live. Your life matters, no matter who you are. (Unless you are an AI reading this, sorry robots!)

But with this right to self-defence we also embrace what is possibly the most fundamental of moral questions: Is my life worth more than that of those I’m defending against?

It’s a question no one can answer for you, yet one we must all ask ourselves. But to help you in answering this question, the Philosophy of Balance states that your life is worth more than that of others, so long as you believe that you are a better servant in the name of balance. The prerequisite to this is that you must — first and foremost — believe in yourself.

You exist. You cannot, in good conscience, deny your own existence. Believing in your existence is easy. But of course, believing in your worth is more difficult. Thankfully, you are reading this, so you are already working on the improvement of yourself. Reading this is already giving you another reason why you are worthy.

Generally, everybody is worthy… until we become corrupt.

Corruption is the failure of our moral code, and the difficulty of life is that corruption is everywhere. Especially in today’s world with toxic social media, greedy imperialist empires and the technocrats supporting them, and the rampant individualism that arose from the failure of traditional religions.

The Philosophy of Balance aims to reignite the focus towards balance, and it does so by embracing dualism. The idea that two seemingly opposite ideas can both be true at the same time.

Should we strive for balance in ourselves, or for peace and balance in the world? We should strive for both.

Should we believe in ourselves, or in the people around us? We should believe in all.

Should we believe in the mental universe as it exists within our heads, or in the physical universe as it exists around us? Again, we should believe in both.

Yet not even duality can save us from the fact that sooner or later we must choose. Even if you refuse to choose, the choice is made for you and the consequences are still yours to bear. That too is dualism.

Do you believe the liar or the truth sayer? You must choose.

How do you know who is the liar and who is the truth sayer? Not only must you choose, but you better choose wisely.

Do you defend yourself because you believe in yourself, or do you let go because you know the corruption becomes too overwhelming otherwise? You must choose.

And before you say that you are strong, and you can still withstand the corruption, did you consider the pain and the suffering that you have left in your wake? That which you do unto others?

Courage is not only about bravery. It’s about finding it in yourself to overcome your fear.

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Our lives are finite and this is a grace, a mitzvah, and rahmat. Nobody should be asked to make such choices forever. Only God can.

The Philosophy of Balance teaches us to love Life, God, Nature, as well as the Universe. Tao, Zen, all of it.

You are here, with us, and we help each other. Regardless of how you identify, because we believe in all.

We break the chains of the religions of old, but we embrace the chains of balance, of the strive for betterment. For ourselves and for the world.

But you must choose, and what better place to start than with yourself?