Harmony with Nature and the Universe
Is the universe and nature harmonious and peaceful? When you look at the stars at night do you see harmony and peace. In the forest, desert, lakes and oceans do the creatures that live there do so in a nonviolent way with each other?
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reality is what you make it. I choose peace and harmony, but not everyone sees it that way.
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IMO there is balance, but harmony and peace, not so
much. The universe was born in and still is in chaos. From a very outside perspective you can see it in many different ways. We are born to die. In the physical realm, we are flawed. Be it because we are born in sin as the bible says, or be it that we have not tuned ourselves into enlightenment as Buddhists believe. Like us, the universe is dying, and transforming. There has to be a balance somewhere or it just wouldn't work at all. How much of us is in the realm of real harmony, balance, and peace I don't know. But it exists. Just my opinion on the matter. I am by no means a seasoned Aikidoka. |
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When my sales report is due tomorrow and I just got back at 10pm while entertaining a client, the peace and harmony things get shove out the window. Boon. |
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Yet, the whole is made up of component parts which are constantly being created and uncreated in the sense that there is nothing which isn't changing form all of the time. Nothing is static or unchanging. So from the limited human perspective which is fragile and transitory in the extreme, it all seems incredibly violent. But that is within our own hearts not really a reflection of what is. It is an emotional reaction of fear that comes from attachment, an attempt to find permanence where there is none. Spiritual practice is largely about trying to come to terms with this issue. In the end "harmony" is how you describe what is out there but "peace" needs to be in your heart. It's how you choose to relate to the constant change which is a fact of existence. |
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Somebody said to me and it made alot of sense:
"There are two options, either we are physical beings having a spiritual experience or we are spiritual beings having a physical experience." I read once in a book about the chaos theory that within any system of organization, there is an underlying chaos, and within that underlying chaos, an even more profoundly disturbing system of organization. And so on and so on, amen. In the Art of War, Sun Tzu proposes that the only surefire method of controlling one's own mind is to realize that in times of violence there will follow a time of peace, and in times of peace there will follow a time of violence. I believe that I create my "reality" on a moment to moment basis and how I perceive that reality is dependant on my internal condition. The world is unfolding exactly as it should, if I see a problem with it, then that is my problem, not the world's, and if I want to change it, then the change should be exacted within myself. Who am I to offer suggestions for improvement on perferction? I just don't know enough to. The cosmos far too large and myself far too small and ignorant. |
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I dunno' about the universe, but I've watched enough animal specials on Discovery Channel to know that there is plenty of violence in the forests, deserts, lakes and oceans of our world. Ever watch a pride of lions chow down on a zebra? Or witness a crocodile snatch a wildebeest from the shore of a river? Or see a shark chomp a chunk out of a tuna? Whoohoo! "Nature" is nothing if not brutal and violent (of course it isn't only these things). Why do you ask? Jon. |
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Asked by the interviewer, if he ascribed to the Eastern way of thinking about reality and truth he said, "What? You mean the idea that reality is not really real? It's all an illusion? --- They dodge spears, don't they?" |
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IMHO, harmonious does not necessarily mean nonviolent as illustrated in nature. When it is appropriate to be violent, then do so with just enough to get the job done. When the job is over, be a peace.
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The Ki ( energy or spirit ) of the universe at work creating .....
.http://www.seds.org/HST/M16Full.html ...and destroying http://space.newscientist.com/articl...supernova.html In our Aikido if we are to harmonize with this Ki do we not have to accept both sides of what the Ki is doing, creation and destruction. David |
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The trick of it all is, of course, first perceiving and then adhering to the natural order in which creation and destruction synthesize to new creation. In Aiki, as in all warfare, the will to attack must be thoroughly and irrevocably destroyed, even while the entry into the arena of destruction is complete. If this spiritual destruction is not accepted, physical destruction begins, because that rejection is out of the natural order. However, the creativity that flows from acceptance of that destruction is nearly infinite. Haruo Matsuoka made an especially interesting statement in light of your metaphor and my extension of it: "Aiki is not rejection or resistance, but fusion." |
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Creation and destruction is the results of the natural work of the energy of the Universe. I don't see how we can harmonize with the results, we harmonize with the energy.
Do we control that energy or does the energy control us? Do we flow with this energy of creation and destruction or do we direct it? David |
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Even the peaceful glow of a candle flame is caused by tiny explosions going off in the center of the flame.
In gassho, Mark |
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I do not create the wave. I do not control the wave. I only control my relationship to the wave. |
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There is no spoon.
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This conversation makes me want to go surfing.
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"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz and I'm fine." Jeff Spicoli
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To be or not to be a nihilist: that is the question.
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Some species of ants make war.
There are no athiests in foxholes. |
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You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.
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