Down the Middle (Draft)

It seems to me that your brain is broken down into two types of processes, Emotional and Logical. Many people already have the logical and emotional process associations, they just label them as mind and heart, as if they were separate entities. >> An interesting quote from a Modest Mouse song depicts what i think is a way of describing an overemotive mind using these associations when they say “My brains the burger and my hearts the Coal”. As if the emotional process were to cook the brain. Like when you think about an emotional time, your mind is full of racing thoughts, making no sense, and often leading to actions that you later regret. I believe that is what Issac Brock means in the song by saying that his heart’s the charcoal. It’s what fuels his thought processes. And this, like all things can be related to yin and yang. If you associate yin with emptiness and yang with full, then which processes would be empty and which would be full? I’d have to say that your logical process would be yin, and your emotional process would be yang, which would break down into Yin processes and Yang processes.

Insert first yin paragraph here<<

Although living with logical always on seems not only the best solution, but the only one that makes sense, it is not necessary as a constant. If you would like a better example of this look at Spock or Whinnie the Pooh, however in real life, people tend to feel indifferent toward you, or feel that you’re insincere, such are the conditioning granted to us by our society.

two/one yin processes paragraph<<

Your Yang process will be the counterpart to your Yin processes. Think about any time you’ve ever been overrun with rage, depression, happiness, or any other type of emotive process. It’s like a head change like no other, when you’re incredibly angry, your mind rushes through a bunch of ideas that you would have never imagined as possibilites were you not angry. Like you may turn towards revenge or wherever your thought processes manage to land you, usually it is not for the best of the situation. Therefore it makes no sense to let your emotions rule your thought processes. If you’re unable to make decisions based off of logical ideals, then what is the point? When you’re at the point of saying “Fuck it all, I’ll do this,” what is the point if you will later regret that action?
Your Yang process is based on emotion, however, Yang processes also have alot of power fueling them. When you enter a complete Yang process, your mind is overtaken by thoughts and ideas regardless of the consequences. This can be a good thing, it can give you drive, it’ll give you the ability to learn quicker. In a way it is like an adreanaline rush, suddenly you’re over ridden with thought processes that have the drive to allow you to do things that you wouldn’t normally be able to do.

Outro into medium<< Next time you’re in a situation where your mind is racing think about removing the emotion out of your thought processes, and what are left with? Truth.
—written/edited to here drunk, adderoll, weed—-

|However valuable this information, many people react incorrectly.|>>rewrite for better understanding<< For example, if you dont realize that yin and yang are directly related, you also don't realize the two must work together, motion. So, your logical mind starts saying "wow there is too much emotion here, so as a quick solution, builds a dam to keep your emotions at bay(bottling up your emotions effect). And suddenly ther is so much clarity in your actions and thoughts, till the emotion builds up.  In that case you're left with the dam unable to hold the emotion at bay, which leads to being left with an incomprehensible amount of emotion("bottle bursting"), and what remains of your rath. Not to mention that the dam rebuilds to burst again, adding to the pressure and weakens the structure each time(disorders).

Although living with logical always on seems not only the best solution, but the only one that makes sense. If you would like a better example of this look at Spock or Whinnie the Pooh, however in real life, people tend to feel indifferent toward you, or feel that you’re insincere, such are the conditioning granted to us by our society.
When moving into a sitution, remain empty. Any problem that arises, treat it as if you don’t care about the result, just think problem -> solution. Nohing else, but to do this you must also keep your awareness keen to all aspects going into the situation, then truth will be revealed. You must adapt to every element of every environment.

You must realize there is no such thing as good or bad, only Truth and nothing. Good and bad have a definition that changes based on perpsective. What may be considered bad in once instance, could be considered good by another person. Many people will mark things as bad because they felt negitive feelings during the process, yet the overall effects were something that was necessary. Once you realize that there is no such thing as good or bad, just situations and changes, then when will you have a problem? At that point there will be no more reason to lie, because emotion is the only reason you would want to lie. It doesn’t make sense to prolong a process because it may be a little akward or difficult and start lying, you may as well take care of the problem in one simple cut, and move along.
The goal is not to rid yourself of emotion, the goal is to reach the middle ground. It is to have neither Emotion nor Logical, emptiness. You can also describe this as being centered.
When you take emotion out of your situation, ideas and good and bad with it, you’re only left with truth or no truth.