Daily Meditation: Friday, May 10, 2013

Events - the effects of distant causes

05/10/2013

There have been people in history whose actions and influence at a given time have completely changed the lives of millions. In reality, they were merely channels for events that had been a long time in preparation and about which some may have had an intuition. In the same way, for the victims of an earthquake, for example, the event occurs very suddenly, but in actual fact it is the result of long-term processes, whose warning signs were there to be read. Nothing in the universe comes into being instantaneously; nothing can be achieved in an instant. Everything that appears has already been on its way for a long time. Our world is not the world of causes but of effects. And this law does not just rule events arising in society or in nature; we see it acting in us too. Health and illness are simply applications of it. Someone may be fine and then one day suddenly have a heart attack or a stroke. He or she will say, ‘I fell ill on that day.’ No, the illness showed itself on that day, but it had been coming for quite some time.