Tuesday, January 31, 2006

NATURAL LIVING: IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE TOTALITY

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William Shakespeare: “The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre observe degree, priority, and place. Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, office, and custom, in all line of order.”

F.: In the quote above, the Realized poet notes that in the universe, the planets rotate around the sun in a manner that is fixed even though they appear to be moving as they please. One orbit has “priority” over the next, and the planets have no choice about what is happening. The natural laws have “insisture.” They insist that all is to happen per the natural order, is to happen per “priority,” and is to happen in “proportion,” and if the natural order were not followed—if each did not stay in its “place”—the impact would be significant in the relative existence on earth. The planets move along lines that are “customary”; the planets have their particular “form” and cannot change that; the “seasons” on the planets cycle in a particular “line of order” as the planets move in a particular “line of order.” All movement happens naturally and automatically, and the planets have no choice; they are making no decisions; all is happening routinely without design or intervention. The planets are “conscious” of the pull of other planets, yet any resulting response is, again, automatic. The planets have not dreamed up any magical power that they depend on to function. They do not reverse “course” and behave unnaturally. If that were to happen, the entire solar system would collapse and self-destruct. So it is with persons on this planet.

A natural way to live exists on the planet, and the laws of nature have the right of "insisture": either life is lived naturally according to the “customs” of the universe or persons violating the natural “order” will collapse and self-destruct. The Realized move through the relative existence in a manner that is fixed by nature even though they appear to be moving as they please. Rather than trying to exert any force, they accept that happenings happen. Among the Realized, nature has “priority” over efforts to control or manipulate. The Realized respect the natural laws that have “insisture,” knowing that all is to happen per the natural order and knowing that all is to happen in “proportion.” Persons, on the other hand, seek to control and manipulate so they do not have to accept “proportion” but can work to accumulate and to have more and to appear to be greater than what is proportional. They imagine that they have an actual need for more than is proportional or necessary.

The Realized move along lines that are “customary” rather than along paths that are unnatural or supernatural. To think supernaturally is to think magically, and magical thinking is delusional. The Realized know that particular “forms” are perceptions only. They know that what is Real does not change. They are in touch with the truth of cycling, they know the “seasons” of consciousness as it manifests and unmanifests, and they know that consciousness cycles in a particular “line of order.” They accept the “cycles” and have no unnatural desire for a body to live eternally. All movements of consciousness among the Realized happen naturally and automatically, and none move about in fashions that are contrary to what is natural. The Realized accept their “place” in the natural “line of order” and thus remain “centered.” All around the Realized, all is merely happening routinely without design or intervention. Persons might try to pull or manipulate the Realized, yet the Realized do not respond with the emotional intoxication that persons experience. The Realized no longer dream of any magical power that they must depend on to function. They do not reverse “course” and behave unnaturally. Because persons are trapped in magical beliefs and unnatural patterns of behavior that violate the “line of order” and veer from the natural “course,” they suffer. The Realized are free of unnatural and supernatural thinking. Having transcended the “mind,” having forfeited all beliefs and concepts, and having abandoned all learned ignorance, they do not think at all. They move naturally through the universe. All that happens with them happens automatically. Thus, they do not suffer.

The natural course is clear. The unnatural or supernatural courses are available for programmed and conditioned persons to try. Which course would the sane (those in touch with Reality) follow? Please enter the silence of contemplation.

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