Studying about sustainable agriculture and the current food issues – especially when realising the corruption and danger rising in the shape of food empires expanding their realm and power on the earth – wakes up a rebellious mood in me.
And although i want to do something positive about the matter – because food is a basic need – i also realise how foolish i am to rise and resist the wave. I do not want to be a fighter, nor do i want to be a saviour, i simply want to do what i think is right.
Moreover the highest aim is knowing genuinely Being. Here is the Universe unfolding before my eyes, and i fight against it. But when we look closer at it, we soon realise that the Universe is complex system with a myriad of causes and effects continuously influencing one another. Eventually, as we step back to look from a distance at the world, we see a congruent whole. All causes, together are the cause of the next consequences, or the consequence, simultaneously becoming cause. So really there is but one cause and one consequence: the Universe, and because it is not a tic-tac system there is no time to it really, but simply apparent continuity.
Now if the Universe is the cause and consequence of all things, now and now and now. Then the Universe as it is now is necessary for me to be what i am now (no matter what i believe myself to be at that moment). The last thing i would want would be to fight against my own cause, or would it? And without me the Universe as it is, would not be. The interrelation – how subtle it may be – cannot be denied, nor can the extent of differences in any imaginary alternative case be guessed, even less measured.
So there is no need fighting, it is all in one’s own interest to love and cherish the world even if it appears to play against us.
And although i want to do something positive about the matter – because food is a basic need – i also realise how foolish i am to rise and resist the wave. I do not want to be a fighter, nor do i want to be a saviour, i simply want to do what i think is right.
Moreover the highest aim is knowing genuinely Being. Here is the Universe unfolding before my eyes, and i fight against it. But when we look closer at it, we soon realise that the Universe is complex system with a myriad of causes and effects continuously influencing one another. Eventually, as we step back to look from a distance at the world, we see a congruent whole. All causes, together are the cause of the next consequences, or the consequence, simultaneously becoming cause. So really there is but one cause and one consequence: the Universe, and because it is not a tic-tac system there is no time to it really, but simply apparent continuity.
Now if the Universe is the cause and consequence of all things, now and now and now. Then the Universe as it is now is necessary for me to be what i am now (no matter what i believe myself to be at that moment). The last thing i would want would be to fight against my own cause, or would it? And without me the Universe as it is, would not be. The interrelation – how subtle it may be – cannot be denied, nor can the extent of differences in any imaginary alternative case be guessed, even less measured.
So there is no need fighting, it is all in one’s own interest to love and cherish the world even if it appears to play against us.
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