Realisation: How Your Universe Depends On the Universe
Realisation: How Your Universe Depends On the Universe
You shape your world which shapes you. Reshape yourself and you reshape your world. -stonepeace
If you think in terms of chance, the universe might seem surprisingly accomodating to you, especially since you have enough well-being, to be able to sit back to read this leisurely online, to wonder about how to better your life, even as we speak. But how much of this is by chance? If not by chance, who made it not by chance? You might be tempted to think it is you and you alone, who have worked your way through, to reach where you are now. Well, you did learnt to read since young, and you took the trouble to learn how to operate a computer. So, you deserve this privilege you are experiencing now. True... to some extent. But have you considered who taught you how to read, and who invented the computer? Your present privileges are dependent on them too. But the chain of gratitude does not end there. Someone must have inspired your teacher to teach. Someone must have inspired the inventor of the computer. And "someone" is always related to someone else. To arrive at this point in time, the world needs the world to function itself - no more and no less.
If you look deeper, there isn't merely a single chain of cause and effect; it's an interconnected web of interdependence and casuality. The latest evolved model of the computer is the culmulative result - of countless interlinked networks of hardware and software engineers in the history of computing. Find a computer in a desert and you wouldn't imagine it to be created by the magic of any equally magical and untangible being; but by many real people who worked hard at it. Linked in one way or another, we have to be existentially grateful to everyone for everything we are enjoying. Apply this truth to those around you and it means everyone should be grateful for everyone. The universe accomodates the universe - in a way as intricate as it is self-contained. But the universe can be very unaccomodating too. There are natural and man-made disasters. But even that which gives trouble might unwittingly train us to be stronger. Grateful even to "enemy situations", "enemies" disappear.
If you see the sensibility of cause and effect in the physical aspects of existence, you will realise that not only does casuality affect our lives physically, cause and effect must also affect our lives mentally - because it's a prevalent natural law. This is the law of karma, of us always getting our just deserts. We are experiencing the fruits of our past thoughts, words and deeds, while we plant new seeds for the future now, with our choice of new thoughts, words and deeds. Coming full circle, the opening question asked how you arrived at your privileged state. The earlier answer was - "You might be tempted to think it is you and you alone, who have worked your way to reach where you are now." That is also true! To the extent that you accomodate the universe harmoniously, the universe accomodates you kindly. The self-balancing law of karma irons out any "unevenness" in the fabric of the universe in good time. If you think in terms of chance, the universe might indeed seem surprisingly accomodating to you. It's so suprising, that it is surely not at all surprising that it is never by chance! -Shen Shi'an
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Namaste,
Ben, Licensed Unity Teacher as of 1/1/07
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31st October 2006, 03:40 AM
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