a catch, a problem, or even person?
how does this drive lend itself to enable a human being to do the tutmost to get what is wanted?
any philosophical/spirtual power code to this?
and if there is, other than hard work, does pure luck comes through in case of people who are always bound to hardness?
best,
Dushwari
Re: easy or hard: what is sought with more force?
the most sought one is the ez way....thought the most sought one should be the hard way......cuz hard work alwayz pays.....
even i go after the ez way out of stuff....
Re: easy or hard: what is sought with more force?
Peace Dushwari
The key to 'good luck' is du'a and the of the best du'as is to ask to be shown The Straight Path.
This is no meager point!
Consider a mountain, there are two ways to climb it, straight up or spirally round it. One is a straight path, the other is a curvy path, one is the shortest path the other is the longer path.
Straightness is a metaphor for things honest, direct, good and controlled. Curvyness or Bent is a metaphor for slyness, dishonesty, furthermore going around in circles is considered madness.
Physically the shortest way up a mountain is the hardest way up, because one has to put more force in to it. It therefore means most people if not trained to combat the hard line will resort to taking the soft line. To be bent away from straightness is also a metaphor for being distracted so it goes to show that the long journey is a distraction to our ultimate end.
The world distracts us from the ultimate end.
Now if there are two people both climb this mountain they both walk at the same speed, but the velocities are different. The one travelling the straight path will have a constant velocity and the one travelling the curvy path will have varying velocity, because velocity is a vector and a vector is defined by magnitude and direction. Thus the one travelling the curvy path will be constantly changing direction and realigning oneself whereas the one on the straight path is being adherent to same direction and can always see the target, but the one travelling the curvy path never looks directly at the target.
These are metaphors for patience and constancy and rigour in the constant velocity and the chasing of immediate goals in the case of the curvy path.
If we take the profile of the change you will also see another phenomenon. You will see that the the sinusoidal curve is curvy path that goes up and down this correlates to wordly highs and lows. A straight horizontal line does not have this pattern.
The high corresponds to the wordly treasures and the lows the wordly ills. If the curved line is a series of iterations to achieve convergence then the pattern shows that there is constant rebound experienced. The moth is LURED to the light source, which is really not the sun or moon but a deceptive light, a harmful light. The moth burns itself flies in a circle then goes and burns itself again and again until it dies. The LURE of the deceptive light source carries a BURDEN. The world promises us pleasure but merely gives us a glimpse of it and then makes us chase it. This erratic iteration is mathematically consdiered 'out of control' and the the path that converges to a straight line is considered 'in control'. It goes to show that we should remain in control and sacrifice the highs of life so we don't have to experience the lows. The ultimate end carries a permanent high with no low attached. Unless we are losers ...
It is a game of winners and losers. And verily it is a game ... the one who made this game is a genius ... it was named 'SNAKES and LADDERS'
The snaking path is a curvy path, snakes are considered the enemy. Also we see snakes take us down away from our ultiamte end. Ladders are straight and take us up. Ladders require effort to climb, because we need to get the right number on the die. The wrong number or most of them make us toil a slow climb up the board. The board itself is a snaking path slowly going upwards, but the real snakes are that what take us downwards. The slide down is an enjoyable slide, but its joy is short lived, because we realise that we need to start again, but the climb to the top is a constant. If we win the game!
Furthermore the resistance of pressures of various trials is difficult, but the ease comes when we ask for help. Help is when the dies are made to land on the required number ... God controls destiny - the die.
Surah Fatihah is the ultimate request recognition of the fact that we worship God and we ask Him for help ... to show us the Straight Path .... It is effectively asking for help so we can help ourselves in our efforts. In such a way luck is increased and the hard line becomes more palatable. The gradual climb up the hard path gets easier with constancy and patience because the muscles get stronger for the effort being put in.
One caution! At the end of the board is the biggest snake head ... It is the snake of arrogance ... If we get near the top and do not humble ourselves then we will land on that snake and it will take us down quickly.
Re: easy or hard: what is sought with more force?
brother pyah,
cannot agree any more. :>
thanks for such a nice reflection.
Dushwari