Determinism

I once visited the large estate of Mrs. Carlson, the widow of the inventor of Xerox. Many monks would visit there for its utter tranquility, which she herself radiated.

I asked her the secret of her deep Peace. She smiled: “Don’t read the newspapers.” And I did stop them – and the magazines and, of course, the TV.

The great physician and psychoanalyst Georg Groddeck believed that in his unconscious was the patient's desire for disease – as well as for health. And he also believed that in his own unconscious was his desire for the patient's health to then actuate the patient's desire.

But what of the Tao – or whatever Groddeck would have called It? I'm sure, him being as he declared “wild,” he did so believe, but chose to not say lest he be deemed “too wild.”

I believe that the basic blind spot is the birthing trauma, and that later traumas are then overlaid on it.

In meditation, still and active, one’s self is given over to the Higher Power, to Amida Buddha, to the Great Spirit.

There comes a point when every healing endeavor becomes deeper, and therefore more spiritual. For all healing is basically to do with the Soul.

At this point, every so often, the sufferer quits – sometimes acrimoniously. He has come to the moment of truth, when he sees himself honestly. And

Gandhi said we should no more mourn a death than celebrate a birth. So strong was his belief in Determinism.

When our society is gotten to accept Other Power instead of self-power, our language, similarly, will be made to change. And this will come to pass, or not, as Determined.

Writing is as precious, as wondrous, as breathing. The more so when we are given to realize that all is Other Power.