Tuesday, July 16, 2024
If you realized you were God Almighty, you could have it ALL. You’d win every lottery, exceed the wealth of Elon Musk, and you’d put an end to suffering. You’d be the hero, until you realized that what makes a hero a hero is a villain. How does a solution exist without a problem? Silly God, you haven’t solved a thing, have you?
In solving the world’s problems, you’d unknowingly create new ones. Removing pestilence would remove purpose. Purpose is driven by ignorance, suffering, hunger, desire, lack, etc. When Jesus came to the unitive knowledge that he was God, he didn’t get zapped into heaven. He didn’t withdraw into a cave. He didn’t blink his eyes like a genie and solve the problems of the world. Arguably, he created more of them. He even said, “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
He got in there. He got involved in the conflict. He lived his purpose because there was a conflict driven by spiritual ignorance. A world of just peace, just pleasure, and just solution is not a just world at all. It’s a delusional world out of tune, off balance.
Somewhere in every courthouse is a symbol of a seesaw scale with Lady Justice in the middle. The Buddha would have called this the “middle way.” The Buddha was another enlightened individual who didn’t withdraw from society, but caused a stir in his teachings. Condemning God Almighty for your injustice is cursing God Almighty for your blessings. On the other end of cruelty is compassion. Cruelty gives us a chance to be compassionate.
I would love to just have peace, wealth, certainty, pleasure, and ease. But I just can’t have it. I have to have justice for all. I’ll be Lady Justice. Being God Almighty stirs up too much crap!