Thursday, January 21, 2010

To take over the universe...

Maybe its just my...creative way of thinking that led me to 29.

Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it?
I do not believe it can be done.

The universe is sacred.
You cannot improve it.
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
If you try to hold it, you will lose it.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind;
Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily;
Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;
Sometimes one is up and sometimes down.

Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

I agree, no one can take over or understand the universe. There is too much to it and not nearly enough time in our lives to understand anything but a small part of it. Even then I believe that some people understand less or more than others but whos to say what we believe is real or just parts of our imaginations?
The universe has a balance, and if someone were to "take over" it would disrupt that balance and everything would be thrown into chaos (even though I love that word, there's just something about it...). Therefore there is a sacredness to the universe, something so pure that no one can understand its purpose. If you change it, you ruin it and if you try to understand it you lose the true purpose. With everything good there has to be bad to balance it out. Strength and weakness; hard tasks and easy ones. If you seek out the balance then you wont reach one or the other extreme. Seek out simplicity and balance.
Taking over the universe would be a task in itself, most likely an unreachable one. But no one ever said anything about taking over the world...now thats a completly different matter.

1 comment:

  1. " If you seek out balance you will not reach one or the other extremes" I think that was a good interpretation of this reading.

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