Steve McCurry, Zen garden at Tofukuji Monastery, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
What's in your head—an impenetrable forest or a cozy garden?
You can let everything run its course—listen to anyone, read anything, and let parasitic ideas take over.
In the end, the pushy guests will drive out the host. Like a prince in exile, you'll wander the outskirts of your own kingdom.
The secret is that the forces of Chaos don't care about you. It's nothing personal; they just take over what you let them.
Moreover, this wild power can help you, heal you, and please your eye. But only if you stop seeing Chaos as pure evil and yourself as a helpless victim.
You must establish your symbolic order in your mind. In Jacques Lacan's words, you need to impose the realm of culture onto the realm of nature. A system of laws and rules structures the mess: "This is bad, and this is good."
It's clear that you can't swing from one extreme (anarchy) to another (despotism). There's no prosperity at the extremes, only survival.
The ideal is a Japanese garden, where nature nourishes culture, and order reveals the beneficial side of chaos.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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