THE TAO OF THE FORUM

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You know what you know.

You know what you don't know.

Who knows

What they don't know

They don't know?

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Is the Forum a story

Or does it really happen?

Does anyone know this?

Is it really complex

Or simplicity brilliantly disguised?

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Many people gather together

The tell stories to each other.

Is anyone the wiser? Is anyone clearer?

Yet breakthroughs happen.

Why is this?

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The Leader talks in riddles

About stories and rackets

Is this a racket?

Or a story we make up?

No. A winning formula of confusion.

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Confusion breaks the rigidity

Breaking the rigidity creates space

Space provides Insights

Insights produce breakthroughs

Real transformation.

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People get angry

Enrolment irritates them

They attack it but in the end

They discover a surprise.

They are attacking themselves.

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They do it again and again.

Do they never learn?

Authenticity appears

Like a ghost in the mist

Only to disappear as quickly.

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The Forum is a mirror.

It is highly polished

Perfectly reflecting

Everyone's projections

Straight back at them.

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Yet they say it's not therapy.

Yet it does the same job.

Only quicker

More confrontationally

So what is it?

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They say it is not philosophy.

Yet it has one.

Is that not a paradox?

Is life not a paradox?

The Forum reflects life.

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They say it is not a religion.

Yet it inspires thousands

Who follow it.

They work for the Forum

For nothing.

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To do this they must believe.

Some would say such belief

Makes it religious.

In some ways it is, in others it is not.

Who understands this?

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The leaders are inspirational.

Inspiration inspires.

Yet enrolment

Often has the opposite effect.

Why is this?

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Enrolment is telling stories.

At length.

Without questions.

They are supposed to inspire

Often they don't.

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This is tedious.

It undermines confidence.

Cynicism returns

Doubt pervades

What happened to clarity?

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Running a Racket

Who understand this?

Those who need to be right.

Not being right

Doesn't mean you are wrong.

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Not being right creates space

For the other person to be.

Not being right

Creates love and self-expression

Everyone needs this.

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Creativity

Comes out of Nothing.

The Forum says.

Nothing comes out of

Something.

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Nothing and Something

are the same.

Both are one.

One is God.

The Forum doesn't say this.

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It may be true

Or maybe not.

Just like the Forum

What is truth?

Who knows this?

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Expressing yourself

Other people listen

Or do they?

Those on the Forum listen

Those outside seldom know how.

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Is simply expressing yourself

Enough?

Who knows how to listen?

Properly?

Do the Forum helpers?

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Being Authentic

Produces Integrity.

Integrity shines like a beacon.

It is a beacon which needs re-lighting

Again and again.

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Be inspirational

And you will inspire others.

Anything less

And it is uninspiring.

There is no middle ground.

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Declaration speaks.

Intentions are declared

To others.

But most importantly

To you.

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Intention commits,

Commitment connects,

Connection enthuses,

Enthusiasm causes action,

Actions succeed.

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Being Present

You live in the 'moment'.

Fully expressed.

This is not easy.

Even for those who know.

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Forgetting is easy

Losing oneself in stories

And rackets and formulas.

Friends will remind us

If we ask. So ask.

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Attachment is embedded.

Learn to let go.

Letting go releases

Our heart,

And brings us closer.

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The Forum

Has no easy answers.

No magic wands.

It is simply ideas

Concepts, models, Tools.

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If you use them

Life transforms.

Who doesn't want this?

Yet people forget.

They forget they want a better life?

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They lose heart

And inspiration.

They fall back

Into old ways.

They give up on themselves.

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Use the tools,

Till the soil

Of your own soul

Daily. Hourly.

Be inspired.

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Inspire others.

Be committed.

Be intentional

Be.

Here.

Now.

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LP 7.9.99 Amended 23.9.99