The Path of the Golden Middle

Dividing and conquering is an ego strategy. That is what the ego does. It is afraid of the whole and thinks that by dividing it and by attacking the pieces individually, it will succeed. One mode of attack you know about, the attack of your perceived dark side on your so-called True Self. You have seen this movie before, say at night after a stressful work day, or after the third glass of wine, stuff comes out of your system that normally is safely stored away. But then there is the other attack that the spiritual folks rarely talk about, your expectation of who you should be. The so-called True Self may well exist, but the voice that is talking is your ego wrapped in some holy clothes attacking the self that you don't want to see in you. It is the same divide and conquer strategy but it is a little more subtle. The path of the golden middle is a simple idea: be you and always you. Accept who you are and let neither self get a hold of the other self. Be yourself and be whole in the process.

In physics it is a well-established fact that if one force pulls you from the right and one from the left, the resulting force is just in the middle (add the vector from the right force to the vector of the left force and vice versa and you will establish the resulting force as the line that connects the created parallelogram). This is the Path of the Golden Middle. It is not hard at all to walk the path of the golden middle. Life - the Tao - invites you to be your whole self moment by moment. See how the tension recedes in you as you accept who you are. If the True Self really exists you will experience how the light and darkness in you will merge and how the forces will eventually all overlap.Tension is there to help you discovering who you truly are, but once you have, all that remains is peace.