THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

[Pravin Kumar]

Eckhart Tolle:

"The sapling doesn't want anything, because it is at one with the totality; and the totality acts through it. 'Look at the lilies of the field, how they grow,' says Jesus, 'they toil not, neither do they spin. Yet even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.' (Matt. 6: 28, 29) We could say that the totality...the One Life...wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from the One Life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what the One Life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease. It is as surrendered in death as it is in life. It senses, no matter how obscurely, its rootedness in Being, the formless and eternal One Life.

Like the Taoist sages of ancient China, Jesus likes to draw our attention to nature because he sees a power at work in it with which the majority of humans have lost touch. It is the creative power of the universe. Jesus goes on to say that if God clothes simple flowers in such beauty, how much more will God clothe you. That is to say, while the universe is a beautiful expression of the evolutionary impulse of creation, when humans become aligned with the intelligence that underlies it, they will express that same impulse on a more wondrous level."