Trusting fate. Or, how to accept everything that comes.
If I tell this to a Christian, he/she won’t understand. Of course we accept everything that comes in our life. It is what God wants. As simple as that.
If I tell this to a Buddhist, he /she, again, won’t understand. Of course we accept everything that comes in our life. It is karma. We cannot escape karma.
If I tell this to modern spiritual people, who believe in Source or Universe or those that believe only in science and reason, accepting everything that comes into their life doesn’t come easy. See, they judge. They expect the world to respect certain laws. Especially moral laws. (Ancient Greeks are to blame here. They invented them in the first place!)
If Australia is on fire now, it is because of people playing around with weather, or the climate change due to carbon emissions. They would try to reason everything. There are fires every year, but this year’s hotter, drier conditions are making the country’s fire season longer and harder to contain. There are record temperatures. The average was 40.9 C. The worst drought in decades.
But Christians will say God is punishing them for something and beg (as usual) for forgiveness. And Buddhists will say it’s collective karma, and accept as it is. (at least they won’t beg)
It seems to me it is better to be a Buddhist. But Buddha said we should follow our own path, find our own way in life. Buddhism is a way of living. A lifestyle if you wish.
And like Buddha himself did, when he gave up his title, I will follow no one and find my own truth.
Not an easy choice in this tough world. No one to blame, no one to beg to.
At a difficult time in my life I read his book “Many lives, many masters”.
The author, Dr Brian Weiss, a nonspiritual, scientific psychiatrist who will later become a psychotherapist, comes to understand lifetimes – regression therapy. And we come to understand it, as well. The story is absolutely beautiful, it’s a novel, not a therapy book. And God has a place in this book, too. Please read it, you won’t regret it.
Anyway, on FB, my dear Dr. Brian Weiss, wrote the following:
“Our lives may have many obstacles and much pain. But sometimes a soul will choose a challenging lifetime in order to accelerate its spiritual progress, or as an act of love to help others who are also going through a difficult lifetime. A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity for growth and love.”
It’s the soul’s choice.
I, as a soul, while staying in the spiritual world, choose a very tough future life in order to accelerate my spiritual growth! WOW!
Or, I choose a very tough life in order to help my loved ones.
Yeah, and this reminded me of my own therapist, who said my son and I had a previous agreement and he came into my life for exact 7 years in order to push me on my spiritual growth.
I hated it that.
It was much easier for me to believe that in my previous past lives I did terrible things, killed people, tortured them, kill the planet, be Hitler or Mao, and now deserve what happens to me.
It is easier to accept it is karma, or God playing around as he likes (following mysterious ways a mortal will never understand). But to accept that I myself decided to suffer as hell, in order to be, what, smarter? Wiser ?
Feelings are more powerful than knowledge. In this world, this terrestrial world, I would never chose to suffer in order to be more spiritually evolved. It must be different in the astral world. Or spiritual world, or whatever its name is. If there is need for a name.
But here comes dr Brian Weiss to remind me of this.
“A hard life is not a punishment, but rather an opportunity for growth and love.” – tell this to a raped little girl. Tell this to homeless people. Tell this to a mother who lost her 7 yo boy to cancer.
Because, dear dr Weiss, your teachings are for spiritually evolved people, those who already have been through hell and now understand your language. Not them.
Anyway, anything is possible. This is what I have definitely learnt during this spiritual growth of mine. I do hope my son’s death was not in vain and that I have raised myself to his and my expectations.
Love you.