Chapter IV. Balance
Study guide section for this chapter →
Terms you must own
- Law of balance — say what it claims and what he admits he cannot explain about it.
- Excess potential — define it and name the two things that make it larger.
- Balanced forces — say what they do, and why they ignore your wishes.
- Importance — define it and say why an assessment alone does not create potential.
- Inner importance — define it and give its two poles.
- Outer importance — define it and say why it is harder to control than inner.
- Inner guardian — say what it watches and what it is not.
- Idealization — define it and say what it does to potential.
- Dependent relationship — give the "if you, then I" test.
- Unconditional love — define it and say how it differs from idealization.
- Pure intention — define it and give his newspaper example.
- Safety net — define it and say what the plank example shows.
- Manipulator — say what one feeds on and how to stop feeding it.
Carried forward
Pendulum · adherent · destructive pendulum · puppet strings · ignoring (versus avoiding) · lifeline · thought energy · vibration
Objectives
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recall Evidence: answer review question 1. [0:00:30] [0:01:33] [0:03:11]
explain Evidence: answer review question 3; note he uses the term for both the imbalance and its cause. [0:04:03] [0:06:46] [0:07:50]
explain Evidence: answer review question 2 in your own words. [0:04:51] [0:06:46]
explain Evidence: give both precipice outcomes, then explain Sod's Law. [0:05:43] [0:07:50] [0:46:57]
explain Evidence: answer review question 4. [0:08:45] [0:11:49] [0:16:12]
recall Evidence: write the rules in three lines, then one sentence on why integrity is part of detachment. [0:13:36] [0:15:29] [0:16:12]
apply Evidence: turn one complaint from your day into its upside, then recall King Solomon's ring. [0:17:37] [0:22:07] [0:26:18] [0:28:14]
explain Evidence: answer review question 5; he calls love "dispassionate" yet "admiration", so state both descriptions. [0:31:05] [0:33:38]
apply Evidence: write one "if you, then I" from your own life and the conflict it would grow into. [0:33:54] [0:36:13]
analyse Evidence: answer review question 6; mark the 50% figure as unsupported. [0:37:02] [0:41:57] [0:45:21] [0:50:10]
analyse Evidence: write the shared error in one sentence; name the tension between "never judge" and the exception. [0:51:58] [0:52:46] [0:58:04] [1:04:07] [1:52:17]
apply Evidence: answer review question 7, then rewrite one desire of yours as a newspaper-style intention (Desk work 2). [1:10:55] [1:11:45] [1:14:50] [1:18:18]
apply Evidence: say what you would do instead, using his two methods from Chapter II. [1:18:18] [1:21:46]
analyse Evidence: answer review question 8; say why his claim that a guilt-free person meets no violence is unsupported. [1:23:30] [1:28:24] [1:37:26] [1:41:33]
explain Evidence: answer review question 9. [1:42:38] [1:46:50] [1:51:21]
explain Evidence: answer review question 10; say what his donkey and carrot image stands for. [1:58:44] [2:00:22] [2:01:14] [2:03:57] [2:04:24]
apply Evidence: do Desk work 3. [2:13:16] [2:18:03] [2:20:47]
analyse Evidence: write why both anxious-then-fine and calm-then-trouble fit it; add the centipede. [2:12:10] [2:22:25] [2:25:26] [2:26:34]
Readiness check
Answer these without looking anything up.
- Why does he say laws of nature explain nothing?
- What makes standing at a precipice create potential when standing on a floor does not?
- Name three ways balanced forces might remove your excess potential. Why do they not care which?
- How does unconditional love differ from idealization, and what does idealization eventually produce?
- What are the three kinds of desire, and what makes the first one succeed?
- Why does a guilt-ridden person attract punishment, and what does he say to do about it?
- Why is money an accompaniment to a goal and not a condition?
- What does a pendulum hook into, and what is the first step when a problem arises?
The next chapter assumes you hold one idea: projected importance creates excess potential and gives pendulums a hook, so a strong reaction to a pendulum's push is what carries you onto its lifeline.