Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Is everything predestined?

If I say everything is predestined then I am not able to find any flaw in it. I was thinking to comeup with a statement that can approximately describe the nature. So, if I say whatever is happening, whatever happened and whats gonna happen - all are predestined. Is there any flaw in this? So, far I am not able to find discrepancy in this statement. Basically it's saying something like 1=1. But the same time you can also say nothing is predestined. It's equivalent to say 1 != 2. These statements are so trivial that it essentially contains no information. It's too trivial. And perhaps God is too trivial. So, when you say everything is predestined or nothing is predestined makes absolutely no difference. These are just another layer of logic. One is positive logic - Everything is predestined. Another is negative logic - Nothing is predestined. And in totality both logic nullifies each other. And that's where truth prevail. That was one reason I had said everything has a cost associated with it. Say someone creates a multi billion $ company. But he creates that at the cost of working hard, working at odd hours. Here his success is positive logic. And his hard working at odd hours is negative logic. Both logic exist together. You need to have an insight to decipher both the logic and look in between the logic - that is middle path. That's what Buddha meant by following middle path. He is simply asking you to transcend both positive and negative logic. Then you don't have to follow middle path explicitly. The moment you transcend both positive and negative logic you will be following middle path and truth will prevail.

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