EQUILIBRIUM CHAPTERS 4 5 6

If it has been shown previously that any system can be brought to stability only through the coordination of its elements, and that this requires supports that allow to maintain integrity in the process of movement, it becomes necessary to turn to that without which neither the law, nor the structure, nor the environment can be realized, - to a person who, being at the same time a part of the system and its conductor, carries both the possibility of harmonization and the source of distortion.

For man is not an external phenomenon in relation to the system, but is a knot in which all levels of interaction converge and manifest themselves - internal states, thinking, actions, social connections and technological processes, and therefore any violation of the balance in the system is inevitably reflected in man, and any distortion in man extends to the system.

Not only are people affected by the environment,

But it also shapes it, often without realizing it.

It follows that it is impossible to create a stable system without bringing into harmony a person, because any external structure, being built without taking into account the internal state, eventually reproduces the same distortions that are present in its carriers.

However, in order to understand how a person can be brought into a state of balance, it is necessary to abandon the idea of him as a set of separate functions - body, thinking, emotions, actions - and see that he is a single field in which all these elements are in relationship and mutual influence.

It is the violation of this relationship that causes most internal and external distortions.

When the thought is not in accord with the action,

There is an internal gap.

When the action is not coordinated with the state, tension occurs. 

When the state is not realized,

There is accumulation.

And this accumulation, just like it happens in any system,

Sooner or later they need permission.

Thus, a person is in a position,

where its own structure either maintains a balance,

Or destroy it.

Hence the first provision of this chapter:

human is the primary system EQUILIBRIUM,

where the law is directly applicable.

And if this position is not conceptually understood, but practically, it becomes obvious that work with the system does not begin with a change in external conditions, but with bringing the internal structure into harmony.

It is necessary to determine exactly what this structure consists of. Within the framework of EQUILIBRIUM people are considered as a system in which three main levels can be distinguished:

• perception
• Thinking
• action

However, these levels do not exist in isolation.

They continuously interact, influencing each other and forming a general state.

If perception is distorted, thinking is built on the wrong foundation.

If the thinking is distorted,

The action becomes ineffective or destructive.

If the action is distorted,

This increases the initial distortion.

Thus a closed cycle arises in which the distortion reproduces itself.

The task of man is not,

In order to eliminate certain manifestations,

but it is to break this cycle through awareness and agreement.

The second provision follows:

The balance of a person begins with the coordination of perception, thinking and action.

However, to achieve this goal, another capability is needed.

without which all the previous provisions remain only potential.

This ability is attention. For it is attention that determines what perception is aimed at, how thinking is formed and how action is carried out.

If attention is distracted,

The system loses control.

If attention is captured by external stimuli, the person ceases to be the subject, becoming the object of influence.

Therefore, the third provision can be expressed as follows:

Attention is a key tool for maintaining balance.

It is through attention that a person is able to:

• detect deviations
• tracking status
• Adjusting actions

Unattended

There is no awareness,

without agreement,

No sustainability.

However, there is a crucial difference that determines whether a person is able to be a carrier of EQUILIBRIUM or not.

A man can live:

• Reactively
• or consciously

In the first case, it reacts to external stimuli without having an internal support. In the second, he acts, correlating what is happening with the whole. And this difference is not a matter of belief or knowledge, but is determined by the degree of internal coherence.

Hence the fourth provision:

Mindfulness is the ability to act from a holistic perception.

Not from a fragmentary reaction.

And if you combine all the above provisions, it becomes possible to see that the person in the system EQUILIBRIUM is not the object of control and not the carrier of functions, but the point at which the coordination of internal and external occurs. And it is through a person that the system either comes to stability or continues to accumulate distortions.

Thus, we can conclude:

without a consistent person

A sustainable system is not possible.

Therefore, all development,

which ignores the internal structure of the person,

It eventually creates an imbalance.

Even if it looks like progress.

But where a man begins to see,

Tracking and adjusting,

There is the possibility of another movement.

Not accelerated,

not chaotic,

Not destructive.

and agreed. And it is this movement that underlies EQUILIBRIUM.

**EQUILIBRIUM — STARTS WITH A PERSON.**

EQUILIBRIUM

The White Book

CHAPTER V

FIRST STEP

If a person, after reading about the law, about the system of supports and about his own role in maintaining balance, remains at the level of understanding, believing that awareness itself is already sufficient, he inevitably finds that knowledge that is not translated into action does not change the system, but eventually begins to lose its power, turning into another layer of information that does not affect reality.

For all knowledge, not fixed in action,

It is external to man.

Only the action makes it part of the system.

It follows that the first step in EQUILIBRIUM can be neither complex nor delayed, nor dependent on conditions, since any complexity creates a delay, and any delay supports the existing imbalance.

The first step should be simple, but not superficial.

available but not formal,

and, most importantly, is not aimed at changing the external,

Re-establishing internal coordination.

This step is not an action in the usual sense,

but an act of observation which, when properly carried out,

This is the beginning of a change in the whole system.

It is impossible to change what is not conscious. However, the observation in question is not a passive fixation of what is happening and does not boil down to superficial attention, which is easily distracted and does not hold integrity.

This is a state of attention,

When a person can simultaneously:

• see what is happening
• aware of their condition
• Tracking their reactions

Not to be identified with them.

It is in this distinction — between observation and involvement — that the first turn lies. For as long as a person is fully identified with the flow of thoughts, emotions, and actions, he cannot influence the system, since he himself is part of its uncontrolled movement.

But at the moment when observation appears, the distance at which correction becomes possible arises.

Hence the first practical provision:

The first step is to regain attention.

in the process of action.

This does not require a change of conditions.

This can be done at any time:

• during the conversation
• During work
• during the movement

And that is his strength.

In this case, however, people are faced with the

that his attention is unstable,

It is easy to leave,

Dispersed,

They are attracted by external stimuli.

And that's not a mistake. This is a manifestation of the current state of the system. And so the task is not to immediately keep the attention perfectly, but to notice its loss and return.

And this is the return

and is the beginning of the setup. 

The second provision follows:

Balance does not begin with retention.

and since return.

If this process continues,

Gradually, people begin to notice,

And with the change of his mind,

Reactions become less automatic.

Actions are more accurate.

This is where the transition takes place.

the Reactive Existence

to conscious action.

But it is important to understand that the first step does not end with one effort.

He repeats.

And in this repetition

A new structure is being formed.

At first, it takes effort, then it becomes a habit, and then it becomes a natural state.

And in this process there is a third provision:

Repetition of Conscious Action

It creates a sustainable structure.

It is this structure that becomes an internal support, without which it is impossible to maintain balance.

Thus, the first step in EQUILIBRIUM

It has nothing to do with changing the world,

It is about changing the way we are in it.

And it is through this change that everything else becomes possible.

For a man capable of:

• Watch
• return attention
• Act Consciously

They are starting to build a system.

the Law EQUILIBRIUM

It ceases to be a theoretical proposition.

It becomes practice.

And that is its true meaning.

Not in difficulty,

not in volume,

Not at scale.

And at the point,

Which begins the change.

The White Book

CHAPTER VI

CONCLUSION

If it has been consistently revealed throughout the preceding chapters that the balance is neither a state of rest nor the result of external regulation, but is a coherent movement of the system based on the interconnection of its elements, if a law has been designated by which any uncoordinated reinforcement leads to the accumulation of tension and the subsequent restoration of proportionality, if the need for supports through which the system holds integrity has been shown, and, finally, if it has been established that man is the primary point of implementation of this law and that each step now becomes possible.

For as long as the elements remain separate,

They can be understood, but they cannot be applied.

Only in conjunction

A system is created.

And this system is not created from the outside,

is not entered as a ready form,

But it shows then,

When a person begins to see the relationship between:

• Law
• Pistols
• oneself
• Action

And it is in this vision

Integrity arises.

Thus EQUILIBRIUM should not be regarded as a doctrine in the usual sense, as a set of ideas or principles that can be assimilated and reproduced, but as a way of organizing perception and action, in which a person, realizing the interconnection of elements, begins to act not from a fragment, but from the whole.

This is the difference from most approaches,

to enhance or strengthen certain aspects of the system,

or reduce it to a manageable level,

while EQUILIBRIUM aims to harmonize,

which does not eliminate complexity,

It makes it sustainable.

It must be clearly understood, however, that no system, however accurate in its description, can be realized without human intervention, and therefore any expectation of external change, not accompanied by internal adjustment, inevitably leads to the reproduction of previous distortions.

That is why EQUILIBRIUM does not offer solutions in the usual sense, but indicates the direction in which the system can be brought into a state of stability.

This is not about changing the world,

But in that,

to change the way we interact with it.

And if this shift happens, then everything else gradually changes.

For a man acting out of coherence:

• otherwise perceives
• otherwise makes decisions
• otherwise builds relationships
• They create systems.

And thus begins to shape the environment,

which maintains the balance,

It doesn't destroy it.

Thus, EQUILIBRIUM is not an endpoint,

Which you can come to,

It is a process,

In which the system is alive,

Adaptable and capable of self-regulation.

And this process is not complete,

Because every movement

It requires coordination.

But that’s where his power lies.

For where there is the capacity for adjustment,

There is no final destruction.

Where there is attention, there is the possibility of recovery.

Where there is consistency, there is sustainability.

And so we can say,

that EQUILIBRIUM

There is no answer,

but the way to ask the right questions,

not form,

but the principle of its construction,

not a fortune,

But the movement,

In which the whole is preserved.

And if this movement begins, the system is already changing.

Not harshly,

Not visible from the outside,

Deep and inevitable.

For every real change

It doesn’t start with form.

But from the ground up.

And this basis in the system EQUILIBRIUM is consistency.

**EQUILIBRIUM — 

THIS IS THE MOVEMENT IN WHICH THE WHOLE IS RESERVED.**