“How Do You Train Yourself to Follow the Three Gates?”

“How do you train yourself to obey the Three Gates?”

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I have a big birthday coming up. Time for housecleaning, and what I’m aiming at is a deep dive into the complex of the Three Gates and Three Centers all this month.

If I’m going to focus on the Three Gates and Centers, and try VERY hard not to do or say anything that does pass their standard (I honestly don’t know if I can. So far…pretty good) then it is fair for me to speak about issues as they arise. So some questions and thoughts.

“Steve, how do you train yourself to follow the Three Gates?”

Well, it’s a series of things. First, I have to be clear in my definitions. WHAT are they? The standard interpretation is “Is it True? Is it Kind? Is it Useful?”

For my purposes, this can be expressed as Honest, Loving, and Evolutionary.

Evolutionary?

Yes. If you look at the Three Centers (Belly Brain, Heart Center, Head Center) they could be seen as a simplified version of the Yogic Chakras, which are a map to personal and spiritual evolution. So solving problems in the arenas of the physical body (health, fitness, survival instincts), Emotions (love, fear, relationships) and Mind (communication, career, spirit) will, if solved in the proper order (bottom to top is the safest) enter that “self-directed human evolution” thing I’ve been obsessed with all my life.