Everything Produces in Kind
Today we would like to notice a very simple, universal yet hardly noticed principle of life. Noticing this will dramatically improve your life in all areas and situations - relationships, health, career, business, politics, sports - all areas of your life. Sometimes the simplest of things are the most powerful yet least understood. Let us look at one such simplicity. Here it is:
Everything produces in kind.
An orange seed produces orange trees, which produce oranges. This you can count on.
A frog gives birth to frogs. This you can count on.
Water evaporates into steam. This you can count on.
So what can you not count on? The impossible. You cannot count on the impossible. The impossible is this:
You cannot count on an orange seed growing into a banana
plant, for that is impossible.
You cannot count on a frog giving birth to a gorilla, for that is impossible.
You cannot count on water evaporating into steel, for that is impossible.
In other words, everything produces in kind, and trying to go against this is impossible and at best a pure waste of energy resulting in pain and no result. Try it if you don't believe it.
Ok, fair enough. It is easy to
see how this is so with the physical world around you, but what does that have
to do with your life and life affairs?
Simple. Everything gives rise to
that which is like it, only in a different form. Sometimes, if you are not aware
of the big picture, your mind may get tricked into thinking there is no
relationship between things that are obviously related. And this is what happens
all the time. It is the
norm rather than the exception. Watch.
We all
know that our lives arise out of our thoughts. You are reading this now because,
by a chain of choices you have previously made, including the choice to read to
this point, you have thought of reading such material before. In other words, if
it was not in your mental interest or field of attention, you would never have
read this article you are reading now. Sometimes in your life you have seen a
clear connection between your thoughts and the world arising around you. at most
other times you have not seen this connection and thought even that you were a
victim of circumstances. Now is the time to see that, truly, everything gives
rise to its own kind. And this is how you do that:
Your thoughts give
rise to like thoughts, words and actions. If you think a thought A, it will and
must, under all circumstances, result in an experience in your world that is
exactly like thought A, only appearing in different form. In practice, this
means that you worry about things because you worry about things. It means that
the very act of worrying, which by definition is the consistent and excessive
thinking of the worst case scenario, is that which gives rise to conditions that
make you worry even more.
Again, every thought you have gives rise to
experiences and results of its own kind. To simplify, a happy thought results
in happy conditions and experiences, worry results in conditions to worry about,
and anxiety results in conditions to be anxious about. That is how your world
arises out of yourself.
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