Nothing to Do, Everything to Be

More than anything else, the Integral Map is a map of self-mastery. Offering the most comprehensive guide to human development yet assembled, it allows us to customize and refine our various practices to nourish our growth and connection with the world. Certainly this requires a lot of work. Self-mastery, after all, is a lifelong process. But what about the Zen ideal of there being nothing to do, and no one to do it? If we are in some sense already enlightened, then why bother to practice at all?