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Originally Posted by ketzer
To re-frame this in a different paradigm, we might say that the illusion of doing creates the illusion of causing what is happening.
From modern physics we can look at the hypothesis of the Block Universe. Here past, present, and future all simply exist and are equally real as part of the present moment. Also from physics we can look at the hypothesis of the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Here all possible outcomes of the so called 'collapse' of the quantum wave, actually do happen, each branching into a separate 'future'. Combining the two we have a reality in which all possible events, past, present, or future, including all possible outcomes, eternally have, do, and will exist. Some may see the echoes of the Akashic Records here.
In this version of reality, in a theory some have called the Search Light theory. Conscious awareness does not cause the events, as they already exist. Instead, consciousness navigates through the matrix of existing events choosing which branch it will become aware of at each junction along the way. And so it does become a matter of accepting. Consciousness builds the story it will experiences as it chooses which outcome, which branch of the ever branching universe, it will accept and become aware of.
We say I chose to do that, yet that, and every version of doing that could be done, is already done. Choice is a matter of which we will accept and experience as our next present moment of reality, and that is what we will become aware of as what is happening.
When one wishes to control the flow of water as it moves downhill in response to gravity, one does not stand in front of it and push the water here or there. The water will eventually overcome anything blocking its path, we must accept this fact. Instead, one creates a path of least resistance for the water in the direction one wishes to see it flow. One seeks to align the waters preferred path with ones own preferred path.
The flow of events that we become aware of as our experience of life, are those events that we create a path for by accepting them into our conscious awareness. We engage life by yielding to that which we wish, accepting and allowing it in, rather than resisting that which we do not, trying to block its way, and being overwhelmed by it.
The way of the Tao is like that of water. The highest harmony results when ones own path aligns with the way of the Tao. Then one does through non-doing, knowing that nothing is left undone.
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