I had surgery last week and used narcotics for 3 days which has constipated me something awful. This week my meditations have been back on Lao Tzu. I focused on these phrases:
The Tao is an empty vessel; it is used but never filled.
Oh unfathomable source of ten thousand things!
and
Oh hidden deep but ever present! I do not know from whence it comes.
It is the forefather of the ancestors.
So I meditated on "The Tao" or "The Way". This concept is akin to God saying, " I am the alpha and the omega." He was here before our ancestors, before the earth; mind blowing! [ The narcotics may have helped a bit!] And this all powerful, unfathomable being wants to have a relationship with me; again mindblowing.
The more I meditated the more I realized this being has a plan for the world and for us. With our free will we can fight it with wars, killing and selfishness but His plan will come to fruition in the end. It is like constipation. I like to think I am in control of my own bowels. I can willfully take drugs to change the speed of the colon either working with or against God's plan. I can control the external sphincter of the colon. I can move my colon where I want but in the end the colon is going to function the way God intended it to function as part of His plan and stuff is going to come out in the end!
So I think we will be happiest if we realize God has a plan and try to plug into that plan. We do this by trying to do God's will. In the East this is finding "The Way". God's plan is good for us and good for the universe. We just have to be humble enough to find it and then have the courage to help execute it. Easier said then done I know!
Pax
Joe
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