XPrinciple 10 of 21

Locate your responsibility precisely

Not everything, not nothing. Given where you stand, what you can see and what power you hold — what is actually yours?

DHARMA · DUTY, RIGHT ORDER

Not everything, not nothing. Given where you stand, what you can see and what power you hold — what is actually yours? Both grandiosity and abdication are failures of location, and both feel like moral seriousness from inside.

The practice

Write one sentence naming the part of a large problem that is genuinely yours. Then do only that, well.

A question to carry

What is mine to do that I have been treating as someone else’s?

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