EVERYTHING IS AS IT SHOULD BE, SO GET OVER IT!
From one perspective achieving enlightenment seems to be a process of ever-increasingly being “OK” with what is going on ‘out there’ with the processes of the Universe. One way of putting it is “Everything is as it should be.”
Enlightenment seems a process of being fine with the world as it is, knowing that all you yourself can do is to supply what Light and Dharma work you can, to contribute what you can instead of trying to save the whole world all by yourself. To truly function as an enlightened being means to offer all that you can, to sacrifice to others and to the world by means of your work for the world (dharma), all the while “being OK” with what you see out there because quite frankly you know that there is only so much you can do by yourself. It’s a hard truth to accept, but one must become OK with the world as it is, no matter if it is a paradise, a hell, or somewhere in between headed in either direction. Otherwise, it would be impossible to even begin working on anything because one would be so absorbed with what is ‘wrong’.
If you think about it, this simultaneous mindset of doing what you can whilst knowing that it may not even be enough to help but a few people is the only frame of mind that can save one from total insanity.
This attitude must not be confused with apathy, though it may seem as such to some. The underlying theme here is compassion, tempered with reason and logic, followed by work. The logical side of the mind says, “Why bother?” The compassionate side of mind says, “I must help them all.” Only in a balance between the two can one find internal peace of mind and eternal peace of the soul, as well as know just what to do for the betterment of all.
One must not have severe emotional reactions (if any reaction at all) in response to all that is going on around you.
It seems to me sometimes that all of creation is a grand experiment in which the end is known already, just not how it will come about. This seems to me to be a reasonable reason for the simultaneously existing paradoxical concepts of predestination and determinism. We have Free Will to do as we please. And yet the only way to Eternal Peace is to “acquiesce” to the Will of God. Stated another way, one cannot do ANYTHING against the Will of God or else suffering is the result of using our Free Will. The trick is to align your choice, your Free Will choice with that of God’s Will. In this way one will effortlessly participate in the experiment of creation and arrive at the end “on time” so to speak, instead of prolonging one’s suffering before the ‘end of time’ comes. The point is to enjoy creation without being attached to it, instead of labeling everything and fighting creation which causes suffering in the form of being unable to just sit back and enjoy it.
Everything is as it should be. The faster you accept that, the faster you will be able to move on.
Just a perspective.
