Living Your Design
During the 1990s, basic Human Design education was simply called the Basic Training and took two days. (In the beginning Ra insisted that Human Design could be learned in just eight short days, so the Basic Training was followed by a six-day Advanced Training.) Since we own the teaching materials we developed for the Human Design School, he needed to come up with different materials and a different name after our collaboration ended in 2000. The result apparently was "Living Your Design."
It is very telling that this name was chosen. It exposes a fundamental misunderstanding that ever since permeates “official” “Jovian” “Rave” “genuine” Human Design and its followers and makes it obvious why Zen Human Design sets itself so clearly and distinctly apart.
Here lies the core of the misunderstanding: Of course you are living your design, always have been and always will be. You cannot help but live your design. You have no choice. Whatever plays out for you is exactly the way it's supposed to be, as you're designed to experience life. Why else would it happen the way it does? You may not like it, you may not understand it, but you are born with your design and nothing but death will possibly prevent you from living it.
A Human Design education that is based on the idea that you first have to learn to live your design will inevitably mislead you. The “official” Human Design School, whatever it’s called these days, leads people astray by telling them that they have to become something they aren’t yet, that they need to learn to "live their design." It’s just like the old game of religion, convincing you first that you are fundamentally flawed and then selling you the remedies needed for your redemption. There’s wealth and power in that game! And many are willing to become believers because for many life is more burden than joy and the assumption that one hasn’t learned to live yet seems not so far-fetched.
Since more than a decade now, Zeno and I have encountered so many unhappy people who struggle to conform to the labels the “Jovian” doctrine attaches to them and who bend over backwards to follow the supposed strategies to overcome the supposed shortcomings of their designs. How gut-wrenchingly horrible!
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The Nightmare, a 1781 painting by Swiss artist Johann Heinrich Füssli.
This kind of “Human Design” is so, so far away from the original “the analyst doesn’t tell the client what to do” approach with which we first started out with Ra. What he and his cohorts concocted in the past dozen years has simply no longer much to do with the real Human Design System. The great potential for self-knowledge and liberation has degraded into its opposite, self-delusion and enslavement. We’ve been full-time witnesses for the past twenty years. We can see. Human Design is a great, wonderful tool, but not what has become of it in these incompetent hands. With our uniquely privileged perspective, we're working to correct the errors and return Human Design to its brilliantly simple and useful original state.
Zen allows you to relax in the knowledge that you have always been and will always be the person you are born to be. There’s no distance between you and the truth. There’s nowhere to go. There’s no need to become. The only need is to be aware, an ability to witness your own life. Therefore, Zen Human Design doesn’t offer you strategies to become a more successful person, just a tool to better reflect and see yourself and your environment, a tool to be a more aware person.
Take a deep breath and observe the truth of what happens in your life, in real time, from moment to moment, without interference or judgment. With awareness, your life, your experience, your reflection in those you meet, are your infallible teachers. And yes, your Zen Human Design chart, correctly understood, will be an enormously helpful mirror. You will not be able to change the gifts and limits of your design, but your growth in awareness is what truly matters and will make a difference in life.
Zeno's Centers, Conditioning & Consciousness class is the foundation of a sane and useful, orginal Human Design. Join her for what may be her very last live iteration of it! Coming right up. See below.
Chaitanyo
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