The task is to function and persevere anyway. I think of jet pilots, who cannot spend too much time worrying about which way is up and which down, who endure multiple “g’s” in their work, and who nonetheless do it well. The method is focus and intention, and not clinging to one way of being, one way of moving, one fixed target. The race is with ourselves, with our quality of energy, with our own evolution, which always takes place by going inside.
I was thinking yesterday, too, walking in the rain, that having a code can be both simplifying and confining. Take Bushido. It makes light of death and fear. It makes life into something clear and simple. But it also means that you inflexible in some ways. You buy one freedom for one confinement. It is clearly better than cowardice, but it is only appropriate at the level of development which feels and wants to embrace cowardice.
What code is mutable in the right way? Growth. Growth is ordered motion, but it can go in any way it needs, on the way home.
And what does growth MEAN? You tell me.