{"id":608,"date":"2025-07-02T18:53:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/?p=608"},"modified":"2025-07-02T18:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:53:05","slug":"notice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/notice\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Robin Harford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a difference
between living what you believe
and needing others to believe it too. Not all belief becomes ideology.
But sometimes,
a truth that once felt soft
can start to harden. A belief is personal.
It forms over time.
Through observation, experience, encounter.
It grows like a plant: rooted in place, responsive to change. It doesn\u2019t need to persuade.
It doesn\u2019t demand agreement.
It simply guides how you move through the world. Ideology is something else.
It\u2019s a belief that\u2019s been sharpened.
Organised.
Turned into a framework. It seeks loyalty.
It seeks certainty.
It wants others to live by what you\u2019ve come to believe. Sometimes this is well-meaning.
Sometimes it\u2019s protective.
But when belief hardens into ideology,
it clenches. It begins to close around others.
It silences difference.
It flattens subtlety into slogans. It rewards performance.
It punishes deviation.
It uses guilt, shame, or exclusion to hold the line. We all do this sometimes.
We want to protect what changed us. But the moment we turn a lived truth into a rulebook,
something narrows. Where belief is an open hand,
ideology becomes a fist. Still, they are not always separate.
A belief can drift toward ideology.
A truth that once felt soft can start to harden.
It\u2019s something to notice, not to shame. Because belief born from deep attention stays open.
It adapts.
It humbles.
It softens you over time. You don\u2019t come to it by force.
You come by noticing. By staying with something long enough.
A plant, a place, a person, a question,
that it begins to show you who it is.
And in doing so, shows you who you are. This is the path of Domei.<\/a>
Not a doctrine.
Not a movement.
A practice of attention. A way of meeting the more-than-human world
without needing to turn it into a mirror
for your ideas about how life should be. It doesn\u2019t offer certainty.
It offers presence. And if belief grows from that presence,
it grows loosely.
Held gently.
Able to change. Because the world is not tidy.
It doesn\u2019t fit our frameworks.
It doesn\u2019t belong to our causes. It belongs to itself. So start there.
With the land.
With the leaves.
With your breath. Let the world shape your understanding,
not the other way around. Because attention is how we choose to live.
And sometimes,
the most courageous thing you can do
is notice,
and stay open.

\u00a9 2025 Robin Harford
Old Abbey Court, Salmon Pool Lane, Exeter EX2<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Robin Harford There\u2019s a differencebetween living what you believeand needing others to believe it too. Not all belief becomes ideology.But sometimes,a truth that once felt softcan start to harden. A belief is personal.It forms over time.Through observation, experience, encounter.It grows like a plant: rooted in place, responsive to change. It doesn\u2019t need to persuade.It doesn\u2019t demand agreement.It simply guides how you move through the world. Ideology is something else.It\u2019s a belief that\u2019s been sharpened.Organised.Turned into a framework. It seeks loyalty.It seeks certainty.It wants others to live by what you\u2019ve come to believe. Sometimes this is well-meaning.Sometimes it\u2019s protective.But when Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights-civil-disobedience-courage-honesty","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spblinux.de\/Staying-the-Course\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}