Side Three

When you hear talking heads on the news, taking sides, it often seems like the interest is more in who can be right or most clever rather than what is really true, or at least factual. Nevertheless, apart from the ardently held two opposing views, there is always this hidden but lurking "Third Side" to every discourse.  It's the side which is common to both the other two views.  It's like you have a coin on which one side is opposite the other.  You keep turning it over and over but you can never see both sides at once; that is, unless you're aware of the third side, the side that transcends time, space, matter, energy, or, in other words, ego, and delivers the "unifying force," the "truth that will set you free," the point of insight that gives meaning to the wonderful phrase, "Truth is what the opposites have in common."

There is an old zen saying with an invaluable lesson:  whenever you have two sides, "the bigger the front, the bigger the back."  This is additional incentive to pursue the third side, which always minimizes any unnecessary baggage on each side.

This site is an investigation of the Third Side.  The first few entries will be to establish a context and terms upon which to build.