True Reality
There is an old saying: Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry, and you cry alone. Even the trees, the rocks, the sand, the clouds…if you can create the effect and be ecstatic, they will all dance with you; then the whole existence becomes a dance, a celebration.
But it depends on you, if you can create the effect, you can create it. It is the easiest thing possible. It looks very difficult because you have not tried it yet. Give it a try!
Someone asked Buddha why he doesn’t teach people to pray. The answer crystallizes what Buddha would of thought about the positive thinking movement and the law of attraction:
Once Gautam Buddha was asked, “Why don’t you teach your people to pray?” It was an obvious question – a religion without prayer is simply inconceivable to many people. And the answer Buddha gave is as fresh today as it was twenty-five centuries before, as new and as revolutionary. He said, “I don’t teach my people to pray because their prayers will harm them. Right now they are not conscious enough to ask for anything, and whatsoever they ask will be wrong. First, let them become conscious enough. I teach them how to become more conscious and then it is up to them.
“When they are fully conscious, if they want to pray, they are free. They are not my slaves. But I can say one thing: that anybody who is fully conscious has nothing to ask for. He has got everything that one can ever ask for.”
Buddha would have disliked the law of attraction because it’s leading us away from acceptance of ourselves. The only way we can become fully aware and conscious is by embracing all of who we are, even our dark sides: People try to pray, people try to smile, people try to look happy, people try to be truthful, honest – whatever qualities are praised. But their unconsciousness stands there behind every act of theirs, and their unconsciousness distorts their honesty, distorts their smiles, distorts their truth.
But no morality in the world teaches people to first be conscious and only then to find, by your own consciousness, what qualities you would like to blossom in your being…. Honesty, sincerity, truth, love, compassion?
In other words, It’s more fruitful to become aware of the true reality and our whole being. This will undoubtedly involve aspects of negativity, but it’s important if we are to live a fulfilling and free life.
