“Why?” is the only question that leads us back to source. If you ever wonder why the Open Stance produces the best ball-strikers, it’s because “Why” questions require a “Because” answer. Because answers lead to less and less empirical reasoning. You see, answers are not found in the data. Data begins the questioning. Our questioning ultimately concludes with answers from the ether or, source.

Why are my smash numbers higher with a square path and club face? Because maximum force is applied along a perpendicular impact.

Why is that desirable? Because I hit it further that way.

Why would I want to hit it further? Because it makes the game easier.

Why do we want to make the game easier? Because we know achievement is happiness.

Why is happiness important? Because happy people are more productive in all ways.

Why is productivity important? Because history reveals we have benefitted from collected knowledge.

Why is knowledge needed? Because we need to avoid repeating mistakes, unnecessarily, so we can progress individually.

Why do we need to progress? Because it shows we are conscious and seek to do good.

Why do we want to do good? Because it pleases ourselves and others.

Why do we want to please? Because our souls desire to grow together with others through experiences of life.

Why are experiences important to our soul? Because we are created to fill the world and prosper with representations of ourselves.

If you have followed my work, you understand I have recognized a continuum of disciplines intertwined in the explanation of “Why” the Open Stance works for everyone. Furthermore, you most likely recognize those sequential disciplines in the aforementioned line of questioning. I did not, however, address the very real fact that one discipline flows into the next as a direct result of answering the last “Why” in the adjacent discipline.

Asking “Why?” gets us to the “one” answer. Inevitably, getting to the source leads us to more and more objective reasoning, which is where we ultimately meet as equals. However, the continuum will also flow in the opposite direction.

As we seek How, What, When, and Where, our journey becomes more and more impersonal. Our questions get more and more subjective. We separate ourselves as souls and beings as we pursue these questions because they only answer what is true to ourselves, individually. We are not meant to be alone in the world. Do not linger in this end of the continuum.

Subjectivity yields nothing but differences within humanity. We get no comparison to or connection with others until we head back in the objective, source-focused direction by asking Why? I am trying to convey the idea that our questions determine our direction either toward or away from truth in everything. “Why?” is the only question that leads us back to source. That’s why I ask all my students and everyone else to “Ask better questions.”

To this point, I have kept the details to a smaller subset of the continuum involving only the Open Stance and our reaction to it. And, although the same continuum exists in all things, my particular expertise is to apply answers which lead students back to source. Once students arrive at source, they can productively and efficiently rebuild their ‘individuality’ from a holistic base of operation.

“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.“
-Claude Bernard

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

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