Daily Meditation: Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Thoughts and feelings - you cannot predict how they will be realized

05/11/2010

When you consider someone your enemy and you hate them, you often think how convenient it would be if they were to disappear. Obviously, you don't go as far as killing them, because people don't decide lightly to commit murder - it's too risky. But you think about their death and wish for it... Well, if that is the case, you should know that you may become responsible for the death of someone else somewhere in the world. Yes, thoughts, feelings and wishes travel and can influence people elsewhere, some distance away, who are thinking in the same way and would also like to get rid of an enemy. If they have a stronger desire for revenge, or if they have less of a will to resist their criminal instinct, one day they will get carried away by an impulse, a strong current - some influence they don't understand - and they will commit murder. It is crucial to be aware of this truth. We are not aware of what becomes of our states of mind as they travel through space, but one day we all return to the other world, where we will be presented with the consequences of our thoughts, our feelings and our desires. And then, those who thought themselves beyond reproach may well be aghast when they see they have been the cause of so much damage.