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The architecture: what has to be understood

The architecture is the shape of the understanding itself. It starts from what every human wants, the four things this site is organised around, and asks what each one depends on.

Clarity

comes through understanding ourselves and existence

Enough

comes through knowing our needs, and producing more than we need

Trust

comes through understanding each relationship and what it asks of us

Harmony

comes through understanding our place with each other and with nature

Most of this architecture comes from Madhyasth Darshan. We set it out in plain words in Thesis, First principles and the Glossary, with the original terms and pages in References.

The infrastructure: where it can be lived

An understanding that has nowhere to be practised stays an idea. The infrastructure is the set of places and tools that let it become a way of living, starting with one life and widening from there.

In your life

essays that work out everyday questions, each ending with a practice to try

In families

reading and talking together at home, and testing the practices over years

In education

schools and learning designed around understanding; see How to design a school

In work

organisations examining their understanding, conduct and consequences; see Our work, including Earth & Us

In conversation

the podcast, and places such as CoSeeker and Dhee where people examine their understanding together

Implementation guide

Take whatever you are working on, a family, a school, a business, a community, and ask of it what the architecture asks: does it bring clarity, enough, trust and harmony, and does it carry them from one generation to the next? Where it doesn’t, the infrastructure is where you start changing it. If you want to do that with us, see Work with us for organisations, or Build with us if you are building technology.