Divine Synchronicity

 

Greetings, Observer.

I contemplate that small opening in time within the space of your own reality—the moment that offered you a piece of information allowing you to move toward new dimensions in the way you experience life.

The concept of synchronicity was explored by the well-known psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung. Yet its true function in your life is something only you can confirm—if you are able to recognize its presence in the “random” small or great events that appear along your path, and reflect deeply enough to understand why they occurred.

Often, behind what appears to be a simple choice, there hides the synchronicity of a piece of information or an encounter—something to which you gave your attention by following your intuition.

In doing so, you allow possibilities to fulfill their purpose in your life. By observing and following divine synchronicity, you tune into the frequency designed for you, Observer. You no longer remain stagnant within familiar patterns but begin to see what lies hidden within your experiences.

During the difficult events unfolding across our planet in recent years, our personal lives are deeply affected. For this reason, aligning ourselves with the messages coming from the spiritual field has become even more necessary, because within the material world the forces of separation seem to grow stronger.

Divine synchronicity is the path that allows us to observe behind events, through them, and beyond them.

What is required in order to recognize it?

Recognition of the Divine Principle, creative curiosity, and trust in the infinite dimensions of life within and around us.

I greet you, dear Observer, with a poem from the poetry collection Cosmos.

Coincidences

Look how I happened upon you!

So many layers of the Cosmos,

endless probabilities,

unimaginable connections—

divine synchronicities.

If I am meant to meet you,

everything falls into place

in the great clock of the Cosmos.

Miracles happen.

The “ifs” disappear,

turning into certainty.

There are no coincidences—

only what has already been agreed.

 

“Meditation” or Mental Cultivation (Bhāvanā)

 

The Buddha said:

“O bhikkhus, there are two kinds of illness. What are these two? Physical illness and mental illness. There are people who enjoy good physical health for one or two years… even for a hundred years or more. But, O bhikkhus, rare in this world are those who remain free from mental illness even for a single moment, except for those who are free from mental defilements.”

The teaching of the Buddha, and especially his method of “meditation,” aims at the creation of a state of perfect mental health, balance, and equanimity. It is unfortunate that almost no other aspect of the Buddha’s teaching has been so deeply misunderstood as “meditation,” both by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.

As soon as the word “meditation” is mentioned, one immediately imagines an escape from the activities of daily life: adopting a particular posture, like a statue in some cave, or in a monastic cell, or in some place cut off from society, daydreaming, or sinking into some kind of mystical or mysterious contemplation or ecstasy. True Buddhist “meditation” does not mean any such form of escape.

The Buddha’s teaching on this subject has been so poorly understood or so wrongly interpreted that in recent times the method of “meditation” has been degraded and reduced to a kind of formalism or ritual, almost mechanical in its routine.

The word “meditation” is a very poor substitute for the original term bhāvanā, which means “cultivation” or “development,” that is, mental cultivation or mental development. Literally speaking, Buddhist bhāvanā is mental cultivation in the fullest sense of the term.

It aims at cleansing the mind of defilements and disturbances such as passion, hatred, ill will, sloth, worries, restlessness, and doubt, and at cultivating qualities such as concentration, awareness, intelligence, will, energy, analytical ability, confidence, joy, and equanimity. These qualities ultimately lead to the attainment of the highest wisdom, which sees the nature of things as they truly are and realizes the Ultimate Truth, Nirvana.

This, essentially, is Buddhist “meditation” (vipassanā), Buddhist mental cultivation. It is an analytical method based on reflection, awareness, vigilance, and observation.

 Excerpt from “What the Buddha Taught” by Walpola Sri Rahula.