LAW OF THREE (17) Our Life Has to Be Constantly Renewed.

LAW OF THREE (17)  Our Life Has to Be Constantly Renewed.

Everyone who begins to study and know their own states is well aware that our experience is a constant dying and rebirth. We must not be frightened as we come to see this, although it is really a terrifying thing that we have no power to keep hold of our life: that it has to be renewed or given back to us by something that does not come from ourselves.

But even when we see the helplessness with which we fall into oblivion, at that moment when we are most trying to hold on to ourselves, we must learn to trust that there is something that calls us back. And if it calls us back from sleep at night, it will call us back from that other sleep into which we shall enter, the sleep f death. J.G.Bennett

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We are called back to life not only in waking up every morning, but also during the day in every breath and heart beat.   We are called back as necessary players in the play of live. 

"Just by the very nature of our birth (or our new arising), we are on the spiritual journey." and in this spiritual journey "God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us."  The idea of God's evolution in us is striking.  T,K.

There is a suggestion of the continuing action of God in "our-his" life.  The action that sustains every moment of our life is unperceived but leaves its mark in the world of time and space.  Time accompanies us during all our lives yet we have never seen time itself.  

The triad of time-space-eternity distinguishes three distinct sources of action.  We are unaware of actions coming form the dimension of eternity.  Actions beyond our power or control are taking place every moment.  We can neither put ourselves to sleep nor wake ourselves up by ourselves.

LAW OF THREE 16 The Need to Embrace Friction

LAW OF THREE(16)  The Need to Embrace Friction

"The whole body of the world's religions are expressions of the Trinity and thus a unity between Christ and creation. The silence of the Father is expressed in Buddhism; the Logos is found in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity; and the various movements of the Spirit are present in multiple forms in Hinduism. Without the Trinity there is no Christ, and without Christ there is no Trinity."

Raimon Panikkar

NON DUALITY

Non duality does not mean to get rid of duality (the negative) but to embrace duality (the negative) in order to wake up to the non dual nature of reality.

We must to embrace friction for the third force to manifest. Without friction we nurture the comfortable illusion of my peace and my rightness.

There is more glory for the looser than for the winner if the looser does not give up. The winner provides the friction for the looser to continue accepting pain while the winner will eventually have to loose.

Friction keeps the world going.  Friction may take place automatically or intentionally. Conscious work and intentional suffering (friction) is what is proposed in the Fourth Way schools in developing consciousness.

A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE

"The rationalist part of the Enlightenment thought that to liberate man from the yoke of religion it was necessary to remove the experience of hazard, uncertainty and risk. Socialism has been the most radical in this attempt, but different forms of statism move in the same direction. Nevertheless, man is a being structurally confronted with hazard and risk and when the State tries to take upon its shoulder all the weight of insecurity, under such weight it wobbles and brakes.."

Rocco Buttiglione.

LAW OF THREE (15) Without imperfection, you or I would not exist

LAW OF THREE (15) 

"Without imperfection, you or I would not exist"

Stephen Hawking

"Look for one and you will find two. Look for three and you will find one"

Law of Three saying.

Within the existing universe, in which all our experience is confined, it is not possible to conceive the existence of any manifestation that is not based on the relationship between three independent forces.

We cannot experience an active force that is not dependent upon a negative force.  Nor can we have experience of a negative force that is not dependent upon a positive one.  Nor can we feel the presence of a reconciling force that is not dependent upon two opposing forces.

Although we may think that we can visualise each of the three independent forces separated from each other, objective reason shows that the observance of any one of the three force implies the presence and action of the other two.

It is the presence of he resisting force (-) what makes the presence and action the affirming impulse (+) possible.  (Like in the interplay of the accelerator and the brakes in a car.)

The resisting force (-) is the necessary support without which the affirming impulse (+) would be lost in in space.  

It is the reconciling force (=) that makes the active (+) and the passive forces (-) mutually significant. It is It is the reconciling force the 3rd force that gives significance and direction to the two contrary forces.  (it is the steering wheel in the car that makes sense of the accelerator and the brakes.)

LAW OF THREE (14) The Significance of the Negative Force

LAW OF THREE (14)   The Significance of the Negative

REFLECTIONS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE NEGATIVE FORCE:

"We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world in which there is no damage, no breakage.

This a conceptual fantasy and it makes it impossible to solve the problem of evil."

Teilhard de Chardin

" For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles" Cor.1 Ch1-22-23

Another stumbling blog for both Christians, Greeks and Jews is the commandment:  " Love your enemies, bless those that curse you..." Matthew 5.44

The transformation of the negative is a major sign of intelligence:

"Ordinary criteria of positive and negative do not apply.. The stress and noise of city life becomes transformed into an energy of meditation. Pain becomes a way of understanding the body. Moral suffering becomes a way of freedom from the personality. Mistakes become a way to truth. Lies become a way to sensitive perception. Death becomes a way to life. Anger becomes a way to compassion. The inversion of the negative is a major sign of intelligence" Anthony Blake

LAW OF THREE (13) Man-God-Cosmos.

LAW OF THREE (13)

 MAN- GOD-COSMOS.

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe" 

Carl Sagan,  cosmologist and astronomer.

 The Law of Three states that three conditions are necessary for the arising of each and every phenomenon in creation, including an apple pie. 

Unawareness of the three fold nature of reality has made our bodies scapegoats for all our "sins" and an obstacle to the awareness of spiritual presences acting in our lives.  

Nature and God are essential elements in the three-fold nature of meaning.   In religion a strong emphasis has been placed in the relation of God and Man and little in the relation of both God and Man to the cosmos.  Christian doctrine has great difficulty in fitting in the third person of the trinity,

Unity is the awareness of the simultaneous action three presences: God-Cosmos-Man. The three meet in the common ground of the present moment.  If one of the three presences is not recognised we live in the confines of duality.

In the material world,  the interplay of three forces is clearly understood and applied.  How could accumulation of fortunes manifest in a few hands without the knowledge of the interplay of the three forces that determine the creation of wealth?

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If one can manage one´s energies one can manage everything else. If one cannot then everything is hard and has to be forced. A man or women that does not know that the engine can take a car from one place to another, pushes it, and this is how most of us do things: we push our machine about like a person pushing a motorcar, and then it can easily happen that the steering wheel is out of reach.

LAW OF THREE (12) Three Kinds of Work

LAW OF THREE (12)

THREE KINDS OF WORK


The Law of Three: "People who grasp this law intellectually are very rarely nearer to it than those who feel completely lost. It is one thing to be able to deal with these matters in words and quite another to live them: At the very start we all suffer from a tremendous drawback: the working of our centres (head-heart-body) are dominated by polarity so that everything we look at, everything we feel and think and sense, is experienced in terms of two forces and not three." J.G. Bennett

Wisdom Schools teach thad self-development depends on three kinds of work.

1, Work for oneself

2. Work with and for others 

3. Work for the work itself .

Theilhard de Chardin refers to three lines of Work from a Christian perspective:

To be fully oneself and live, Man must first centre on oneself, second de-center upon his fellow men and third sur-centre* upon one greater than himself. The prefix "sur" signifies above, beyond.

As he puts it:

1. To be - or to centre oneself.

2 . To love - or to de-centre oneself

3. To adore - or to sur-center oneself

The three conditions would point the way to  "be fully oneself and alive".