Be Open To Outcome (BOTO)

BOTO is here to help us be open, rather than attached, to outcomes in our life. Openness and non-attachment let us recover the human resources of wisdom and objectivity.

Some cultures believe that wisdom is flexible and fluid. The way to tap into this is to be open to outcome and access wisdom by learning how to trust and be comfortable with states of not knowing.

Trust is the container out of which the qualities of wisdom grow clarity, objectivity, discernment, and detachment.

Trust: A firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.

Clarity: The quality of being clear and easy to understand.

Objectivity: A person’s judgment not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.

Discernment: the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure.

Detachment: a feeling of not being emotionally involved.

The opposite of trust is control. The trickster figure found in many cultures functions to present surprise and the unexpected as a way of waking up people out of their routines and shocking them into seeing their attachments.

BE OPEN TO OUTCOME – What does that mean?

Being open to outcome means that you don’t always need to know for sure what is going to happen next – you are WISE enough and TRUSTING enough and FLEXIBLE enough to let what will happen, happen. It means if it is not the outcome you were hoping for, you can be RESILIENT enough to recover.

Resilient: a person able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions.

I want to thank Angeles Arrien for the book “The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer and Visionary.” This is where the concept of BOTO comes from. I also want to thank Beth and Ron Black and Cherokee Creek Boys School where I was introduced to BOTO.

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