Most of us already agree, without too much pre-consideration, that it's
futile
to fight
the universe.
The universe
does what it does whenever it does, no matter what it
does, and it's too big and too powerful to fight it. Most of us already
agree, without too much pre-consideration, that it's
futileto resistthe universe
(subtext:
tsunamis,
volcanoes, meteor strikes,
hurricanes, earthquakes,
black holes, even seasons et al). It's too big and too
powerful
to resist
it.
Our relationship with
the universe
is a tenuous one. For our lives to work ie for our lives to be going
what we call "well",
the universe
has to be hospitable and
kind
to us. And yet ... there is neither a guarantee nor a
promise it will ever be like that. Yes, we hope and
pray
it'll be that way, but ... you never know. Ask the dinosaurs
about their
extinction event:
one minute there they were, innocently enjoying life, frolicking
care-free on beautiful, bountiful green
Planet Earth,
and then ...
WHAM!
... the next minute,
gone
forever! Be clear:
frankly,
the universedoesn't give a damn! It just doesn't care. You don't like
that? Too bad!The universemay be hospitable and
kind
to us, and yet there's no guarantee or promise it will be. By and
large, most of us already get that - even though we may not like it.
For the most part, we already know not to
mess withthe universe.
We already know it's
futile
to fight or to
resist
it.
Also for the most part, we relate to
the universe
like it's what's out there. In
the world of
transformation,
the designation "out there" isn't useful (try on the designation
"out-here"
instead). But for now, the designation "out there" is
good enough for
jazz.
And we have it that whatever goes on
inexorably
in
the universe
out there is somehow qualitatively different than what goes on with us
internally ie "in here" (says I, pointing at
my forehead) if you will. We have it that whatever goes on in
the universe
out there, is beyond our control, and yet whatever goes on with us
in here internally, is somehow controlled by us.
Oh, how quaint! How likeably and loveably naïve!
My thesis,
and possibly the thesis of
the world of
transformation
in its entirety, is that whatever goes on in here with us internally,
is just as beyond our control as
the universe
out there is. This says that whatever's going on with us in here
internally, requires us to relate to it in a way that's not much
different than the way we relate to what's going on with the
unmessable with,
unfightable with
universe
out there.
We are that we have little or no control over what happens
out there. We are that we have a lot of or total control
over what happens in here. The truth is probably closer to we have
no control over what happens out there or
what happens in here. We're smart enough to know fighting
the universe
out there is
futile.
Consider it's just as
futile
to fight what goes on in here. Don't
believe it
just because I said so. Take it out on the track.
Test-drive it
for yourself. A possibility of being in control when both life out
there as well as in here is beyond our control, is the subject for
another conversation on
another occasion.
All the preceding
leads
to this: there are no walls between what goes on out there and what
goes on in here (such walls are
veils
of
illusion).
What goes on in here is also just
the universe.
And most of us already agree, without too much pre-consideration, that
it's
futile
to fight
the universe.
So now we all know (having scrutinized it / examined it /
discovered it for
ourselves)
it's allout-here,
including that which is colloquially designated to be in here. Don't
fight it.
