"ordered chaos" :
My western rooted mind still has difficulty understanding chaos, but I can see similarities in the idea expressed and TCM. The idea of "ordered chaos" where variables or a set of variables change with time, is similar to the idea of acupuncture where needling have effects that create changes in a body that spiral out with time.
Fractals/patterns/complex systems :
This is similar to having partial control over your destiny. There is a larger picture which each one of use is drop of water too, and it is this connection that we have no control over. This larger picture is always in motion and part of a complex system. The individual selves of droplets can have some control over their little bubble worlds to speed up or slow down their journey. But ultimately we're just along for the ride so we might as well enjoy it. We can have some effect, say all the droplets leaned one way then we could carve out a different path. This is similar to power of intention and the changing patterns of fractures. I know I'm branching a bit here but its a thought.
Consciousness out of chaos:
The thought that goes off in my head with this idea is that if we are all part of the blanket then we do infact already know everything we just need to become aware of our connectedness. I really want to work on this because then I would never have to study and I would truly be a know it all from birth, and further evolution would take on a whole new meaning.
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I too, have wondered if all knowledge in the Universe is already available to us at any moment and it is up to us to remember how to connect with it....
In my spiritual path, the teaching is that we are all parts of a single Consciousness. So I think you and Sierra-Maria are right in that we could have access to all that universal knowledge if we could remember how to tap in to it. Part of our advancement across the planes of consciousness is getting closer and closer to that understanding. I'm with you, Lynda - I want to be there now!
This is why old cultures' traditions relate to keeping life simple, and suppressing the ego.
If our existence is disturbed with too much clutter, we become a product of madness.
If our existence is free of garbage and compulsion, does not take much to feel how grand life is in its simplicity.
In the west-- a great emphasis is placed on "if we only knew"...we DO know, and feel hurt when disconnected...the case is "if we only wanted to know."
Will we reflect?
It is so easy to spend an hour in commute, eating, or in conversation...but what about meditation without "trying" to be in meditation?
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