In the last post I mentioned Michael Jackson's insightful knowledge of
working with the laws
of nature.
That by knowing who we are, what we are comprised of, and what the universe has available to us, we can be a powerful force.
Knowing ourselves, after all, is what Jesus himself has told us to do. "Know thyself". He also stated that "The Kingdom of Heaven is within", yet most of us still refer to the Kingdom as somewhere other than within ourselves. As we said before, to begin to know ourselves, we have to become conscious of what we think, the way we act, the way we react, and what we do that causes events to transpire in our lives. True freedom and becoming a force of nature means acting with natural laws and not against them, or not maintaining a state of being that is unconscious of natural law.
The following is a quote that lends insight into the laws of nature that we sometimes forget we are a part of. There are many things in our lives that make us who were are, or how we orchestrate our lives, lets say. This is what Sri Aurobindo had to say about the forces of nature:
". . . at least nine-tenths of our freedom of will is a palpable fiction; that will is created and determined not by its own self-existent action at a given moment, but by our past, our heredity, our training, our environment, the whole tremendous complex thing we call Karma, which is, behind us, the whole past action of Nature on us and the world converging in the individual, determining what he is, determining what his will shall be at a given moment and determining, as far as analysis can see, even its action at that moment. The ego associates itself always with its Karma and it says "I did" and "I will" and "I suffer", but if it looks at itself and sees how it was made, it is obliged to say of man as of the animal, "Nature did this in me, Nature wills in me", and if it qualifies by saying "My Nature", that only means "Nature as self-determined in this individual creature". It was the strong perception of this aspect of existence which compelled the Buddhists to declare that all is Karma and that there is no self in existence, that the idea of self is only a delusion of the ego-mind."
- Sri Aurobindo
Being present in your actions and thoughts and how they came to be help you to not become a victim of bad karma (the law of nature), but a conscious creator, or a force of nature.
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