You are very lucky

Once upon a time, there was a priest. Mostly, he used to be silent.People respected him.

Whoever came to him with his troubles, he would answer “You are lucky”

One person came to him and said, “I failed in my exam.” priest said, “Well, you are very lucky.”

Another came and said, “My wife has left me.”
“You are very lucky.”

No matter what problems people shared – “None of my friends are talking to me” or “I lost my job”, priest kept telling them that they were very lucky.

After a while, one person came forward and shared, “Sir, I feel very lucky and I am so grateful that I have you in my life.”

When the priest heard this, he got annoyed and gave this person a tight slap. Even more strangely, this man, with tears in his eyes, started dancing in gratitude.

Another person who was watching all this got totally confused at everybody’s behavior.

He went to a senior disciple and confided, “I can’t make any sense out of what I saw. Could you please explain me the meaning of all this?”

On being asked this person replied, “It was perfect what the priest did!
The first person realized he was lucky because when you fail in an exam, you end up studying it more thoroughly.

The person who lost his job and the one whose friends left him are lucky because they now have some time to introspect. People in jobs never have any time and one has to be really lucky to get some time in life to reflect on the Truth, on ‘who am I’.

The person whose wife ran away is lucky because now he can learn what mistakes he made in his relationship. He now has an opportunity to become sensitive to his wife’s welfare.

“But why did the last person who was grateful get a slap?”

“Because when he said, ‘I am grateful’, he was still centered around the ‘I’. When he got that slap, he realized that even to be grateful, there need to be two. The Master told him, ‘Me and you? Two? Come on, wake up. There is only one.’ When you realize this, misery vanishes from life.

Usually people exist, they don’t live. Existing without life is ignorance. Living as if you don’t exist is enlightenment.

 

a point in space that observes, no avatar required. this is not the same as you cannot have individual preferences and perspectives. every disappointment has its roots in an expectation.

there are things everyone has always known, which we teach each other to forget, because our parents did and their parents did before them.

we are blinded by what we expect and demand of each other.

there is only one thing we must consider: what we harm we harm ourselves.

the rest of what people have come up with, we inflict on ourselves a sadness we do not require.

 

There is no justice in the world as we can't do justice to ourselves. To God instead there was justice for the requirement we be just to one another.

But that is "beyond freedom and dignity". If it be considered we fail that requirement let him appear and tell us off for that blasphemy. :biker:

 

justice may oft times be, in the eye of the beholder, but diversity, being the nature of reality, spares none.

yet at the same time, it is the hope of all, precisely because it plays no favorites.

 

Thank you, but I prefer to look at the problem of justice/injustice in review of history. We oft' believed that the context of referring that something in these matters was better to have faith that "human nature" be a term or sensibility not to apply.

Nevertheless, we can make points about threats to democracy being over-rated instead of the common decency of tolerance and exchange of ideas.

Thus we can go ahead and remember the comments about broken idealism; "We were never more free than under the German Occupation." On the other hand I add; "There was never more right to Assembly than under Communism in Russia." I mean for injustice being overcome.:biker:

 

That is academic but what need for it?

Speciation.

Root eaters, stem eaters, leaf eaters, flower eaters, fruit eaters, seed eaters, and eaters for every one of them.

Many are called but few are chosen. The seeds of life are broadly caste and of many only a few bear fruit. Taste has no power to choose but the inspired do.

Evolution does not support innovation particularly.
Obviously pollution is a creationist sentiment. Insecurity is not by design however but comes from the misappropriation of goods.

 

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for justice to exist, it can only be created by acting fairly, and that does not mean vindictively, but with as universal a consideration as we can muster, for all possible effects and consequences. nor is this about ends vs means, as both good and bad, can be found in both.

nor is justice the whole picture, but only one of several corner stones.

a world in which all can find some degree of both security and gratification is well within the human capacity.

we need only stop putting arbitrary ideologies and beliefs, ahead of disciplining our individual selves, to avoid preventing it.

the preventing it we do, when we fail to consider the kind of incentives our priorities actually create.