Eternal shame<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In a world of looking for and creating \u2018the enemy,\u2019<\/a> many are continually keen on discerning which side anyone stands on. Almost inevitably, neutrality gets overrun this way. Not taking sides gets automatically seen as taking the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This plays a role at a large scale in many concrete issues and even wars \u2014 at present, for instance, in Ukraine and Israel. Some call the sheer taking of one warring side or the other \u2018patriotism.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n How shameful to humanity!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Real patriots don\u2019t kill each other just for being \u2018the enemy\u2019 \u2015 especially since it\u2019s eventually almost always counterproductive, as any hatred<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neutrality as art<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is not about staying in the middle ground between both sides. It\u2019s also not about compromises<\/a> for both parties to live by, as preferable as this can be compared to nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neutrality as art (NAA) is about finding and enlivening the deeper ground where both sides can meet and appreciate each other from the inside out \u2015 even at the opposite sides of an enemy abyss. Note that this is no dumb-minded pacifism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not easy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n NAA is also the stance from which any good art is created \u2015 subtle and dynamic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compassion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NAA is about Compassion<\/a> as \u2018subconceptual enlightenment in action.\u2019 It corresponds with the (also subconceptual) Emptiness, if you like, that can be found in Mahayana Buddhism as the core of active Compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NAA is the neutrality of potential, from which the ideal action can better be seen and taken. The involved listening is deep listening<\/a>. The ensuing act itself is then an act of Compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No guarantee<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Of course, this action is not guaranteed to solve all problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a messy world, NAA generally leads to a dynamic flow of decisions. Neutrality shows in each of them by not taking sides for the sheer commonness of doing so. NAA stands above this, enabling intensely creative solutions that emerge from the flow and transcend mere compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By doing so, NAA diminishes polarization<\/a> \u2015 if only by being profoundly<\/em> present and not putting fuel upon fuel. See also AURELIS Transformative Mediation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n