Two Standpoints, One Reality

How priests manufacture scarcity and the druid removes it.

The Two Claims Are Not Competing Facts – They Are Two Different Standpoints
The ancient Indian claim and the modern druid claim do not disagree about the world. They disagree about where you are standing when you describe it. One speaks from outside life, counting some winners. The other speaks from inside life, being one and counting all as winners. The conflict is perspectival, not factual.

The Priest’s View: Census of Souls
The ancient formula treats “the Way” as a scarce commodity. Out of millions, only one succeeds. This is not observation; it is bookkeeping. It creates a spiritual pyramid: the many below, the rare few above. Scarcity is the product. Authority is the business model. If the Way is rare, someone must manage access to it. Enter priests, gurus, and traditions with toll booths.

The Druid’s View: Identity, Not Achievement
The modern druid collapses the hierarchy. There is no ontological gap between being and the Way. To exist is already to be an operational instance of the Way. Seeking is not a spiritual hobby; it is what any system does when it persists under constraint. Finding is not an attainment; it is the tautology of existence. If you function at all, you already “found” the Way—because you are it, locally.

Scarcity Is a Story, Not a Structure
The priest confuses rare performance with rare being. Yes, disciplined mystics are few. But existence itself is not scarce. The Way is not hidden behind rituals; it is the rule-set that makes rituals, priests, and seekers possible in the first place. Scarcity is a narrative layered on top of a universal process.

External Accounting vs Internal Reality
From the outside, it looks like one in a million “gets it.” From the inside, every living system already “gets it” simply by staying in the game. The priest tallies outcomes. The druid identifies the mechanism.

Final Compression (The Druid’s Verdict)
The ancient saying is not false; it is mislocated. It speaks the language of (dualist) institutions. The druid speaks the grammar of (monist) existence. The Way is rare only to those who stand outside it.

Dualist Scarcity vs Monist Identity in the ‘Way’

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