2006-6-9 06:30:00
If one knew all the forces at play in the sea, earth, moon, sun, planets, ethers and air one could watch the seashore and predict with a massive computer many of the effects that would transpire.
Imagine such a one spending a lifetime programming data into his computer and then watching with some smugness some of his predictions of effects coming true.
He is proud of himself until a child comes along and DECIDES to build a sandcastle. The computer prophet panics. First there was no data in his computer that could predict the time of the child's arrival. Secondly, he is frustrated about the type of castle the child will decide to build.
As the child starts to build the man attempts to predict exactly what the structure will look like. As he is in the middle of doing this the child gets up with his pail and walks a few feet to an area where there is white instead of brown sand. He fills his pail with this and begins to enhance the beauty of his castle with a different colored sand.
The man is beside himself. "What could I have ever put in the computer that would have told me that the kid would get up, move to another spot and select a different type of sand to decorate his castle?
If a great computer programmer and mathematician cannot predict subtle decisions of a child, then how much more impossible would be the predicting of the decisions of a disciple or a master?
Dean:
A little hint is that god is not separate from yourself. If you do not like the future you have changed it.
You can't change a future if it is set. You are contradicting your belief.
Dean:
But all that has been decided. By none other than yourself.
Speak for yourself. There are many details of my life that have not been decided by me. How do I know?
Because I am me.
Dean:
You are not moving through "time". slowly or fast. You are simply existing.
So we're really no better off than a rock which is also existing.
Dean:
Time is just another word and aspect for your existence.
Since a rock's existence is predicated on time as much as we are then we might as well be rocks.
I must say Dean, you certainly must be bored out of your mind and depressed with such a view.
Let us go back to main prime statement.
Reality does not support your view. If it did then at least one person out of the six billion people on the planet could read tomorrows newspaper today. They could even read a paper from a billion years into the future.
Why do you so want to cling to a belief that cannot be demonstrated or have any effect outside of being a distraction from the reality in which we find ourselves?
You might take note that big supporters of this belief of yours are astral channelers. The Masters of Wisdom have never said anything that I recall that supports it but have always placed great emphasis on free will and becoming masters of our destinies.
Here is an interesting quote from HPB:
Only, the closer the union between the mortal reflection MAN and his celestial PROTOTYPE, the less dangerous the external conditions and subsequent reincarnations -- which neither Buddhas nor Christs can escape. This is not superstition, least of all is it Fatalism. The latter implies a blind course of some still blinder power, and man is a free agent during his stay on earth. He cannot escape his ruling Destiny, but he has the choice of two paths that lead him in that direction, and he can reach the goal of misery -- if such is decreed to him, either in the snowy white robes of the Martyr, or in the soiled garments of a volunteer in the iniquitous course; for, there are external and internal conditions which affect the determination of our will upon our actions, and it is in our power to follow either of the two. Those who believe in Karma have to believe in destiny, which, from birth to death, every man is weaving thread by thread around himself, as a spider does its cobweb; and this destiny is guided either by the heavenly voice of the invisible prototype outside of us, or by our more intimate astral, or inner man, who is but too often the evil genius of the embodied entity called man. Both these lead on the outward man, but one of them must prevail; and from the very beginning of the invisible affray the stern and implacable law of compensation steps in and takes its course, faithfully following the fluctuations. When the last strand is woven, and man is seemingly enwrapped in the net-work of his own doing, then he finds himself completely under the empire of this self-made destiny. It then either fixes him like the inert shell against the immovable rock, or carries him away like a feather in a whirlwind raised by his own actions, and this is -- KARMA.
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