If you listen to the mystics (and this is a good idea), there are many "laws" at work in the universe. Or, if that concept -- the universe -- is too grand or melodramatic for some, just say "the regular, ordinary world." Yes, The Law of Attraction is apparently one of them. But it's certainly not the only law that is proposed to be "in effect" in our world. There's the law of causation, the law of change, and one that is probably influencing a lot of people who have achieved some level of success: the law of balance.
The world, as an organic whole, has a tremendous interior intelligence that drives towards balance. I'm not talking specifically about economic balance or so-called democratic/political balance. Forget all that -- just look at nature itself. It "gets" balance -- and it demonstrates it.
For some people, despite experiencing so-called success in their life (financial or otherwise), they lose balance. They lose touch with themselves, and they further lose touch with the very ideas that generated their success in the first place. In simpler terms: they violate the law of balance.
And what happens when you violate the law of balance? Well, obviously, you get balanced.
Lots and lots of successful people get balanced, sooner or later.
4 comments:
I like the sound of what you say about balance. But how to I find it. It seems like I am getting life the way I want it to be, then something happens and I'm out of kilter again. How can I attract peace?
Hello, thanks for your comment. The thing is, "you" can't achieve balance or get your life the way you want it to be, because you don't know who you are. You have a name, a personality, an outer identity -- but this isn't actually who you are. Who you REALLY are is prior to all of these things. Once you connect (or rather, re-connect) with that through meditation and inner stillness, you'll intuitively start to know what to do -- you'll listen to your being because it's infinitely more intelligent than your mind. You don't have to achieve balance -- you simply have to hold still and open up so that balance achieves YOU.
Richie, what you write here sounds awesome. But isn't the decision to engage in meditation a conscious one? Isn't it a cognitive act? In other words, isn't my mind an integral element in the process rather than something to be bypassed?
Hi there, the decision to meditate can either be conscious or unconscious. For most people who experience meditation, it's unconscious -- it happens at "peak" moments. That's actually the reason why some people are addicted to extremely dangerous activities -- life threatening, even; because it takes them into a state of no-mind. After all, when you're in a race car at 200 miles per hour, can you really think about whether you should wash the car tomorrow or that it might rain instead? You are literally PULLED into the present moment -- you have no choice. That is what I'd call unconscious meditation -- because it is unconscious of the cause and the effect. The perception is that the 'racing' is the joy or the thrill -- it isn't. It's the no-mind that derives from it.
For those who deeply surrender to meditation -- and it is a surrender, not a conquest or an activity -- it can become very conscious, and the same no-mind can be achieved -- but with much greater significance and consequence, because the flowering of conscious meditation is always compassion. And that's the only really useful energy in the world; the only energy that doesn't destroy.
As for it being a cognitive act -- no, it's not. Consciousness is not cognition. The western scientific way of looking at like views life as an extension of cognition; as if cognition is the container within which life 'exists' and derives its meaning. This is a deeply profound misunderstanding. Cognition is, and can be, a tool to be used by conscious people. But it's not the very lens through which life is experiences. Cognition is a tool, consciousness is being. Cognition is functional, consciousness is essential.
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