4. Crisis

Imposing is the stance of sharing correctness, large and small. A chef quietly cutting an onion for instance, imposes his understanding of the correct way to chop an onion to the kitchen. In the same way, Gandhi imposed his view of India upon the entire world during the Indian independence movement. Regardless of size, or moral and political alignment, Imposing simply deals with the power of one's influence.

While such a mood lends itself to movement and expression, the commitment to the ego-concept  required for the mood contains consequences. Because the imposing being has a will to change things, he has a concept of how things ought to be. This concept is of course, embedded in his ego-image. And because the concept of 'how things ought to be' is existing within the imposing being, there is necessarily at least one concept well defined within the being.

Naturally, the being which declares himself one way or another partakes in a limiting activity. For him to be everything after declaring himself one way sets his being up for contradiction. For instance, politically the being cannot include within his ego-concept both statements: "I Dislike inequality" and "I Like inequality", without being contradictory. Softer limits to the ego-concept by definition exist otherwise, such as through the preference of one thing over another, however they exist clearly, and necessarily, in  contradictory statements.

The more rigid the definition, the more correctness provided to the being, the harder the limits on what the being. Our most imposing beings share a certainty about the correctness of their ego-image, as well as tight limits surrounding their ego-image, i.e. what they are.

The certainty of being, and the limits which follow, eventually cause a crisis within the being. The crisis here, isn't to be confused, limited, nor labeled for 'mid-life' or 'near-death' and other such crises. 'The crisis' which I am naming here represents the backlash at the limits set on the being. Here the goal is expansion. At it's most feeble form it resembles the expansion into the collection of material things. It is however, otherwise seen socially in the expansion into new friend circles for instance, or the searching for someone to love us, or the expansion into a sudden new hobby, or the setting of new goals. This is seen everywhere in action, we can see our friends struggling to expand from their exhausted ego-images by moving to new, often flamboyantly colored fields for image harvest. This very engulfing of new things into the ego-image is the manifestation of the crisis.