The Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa wrote, “There is the wisdom of all-accomplishing action, in which speed does not have to be included in one’s working situation, but things fall into your pattern.”
This is an intriguing idea and suggests that hurrying is unwise, as is worrying about how long something takes to accomplish. This idea also suggests that if we surrender wholly to our creative process, whatever that process happens to be, things will fall into our pattern of creativity. Which is to say, if we don’t force the creative process, we will find our needs being met.
And this reminds me of my favorite Buckminster Fuller statement. “I assumed that nature would evaluate my work as I went along. If I was doing what nature wanted done, and if I was doing it in promising ways, permitted by nature’s principles, I would find my work being economically sustained.”
Both Fuller and Trungpa believed in a universe that responds to our actions. They believed universe is the instrument of karma, and karma is the manifestation of universe reacting to what we do, what we think, and how we feel, individually and collectively.
Of course, if you agree with Trungpa’s and Fuller’s ideas, you must also believe universe is aware of what we do, that we are in a mutually conscious relationship with universe. For some people this seems obvious, and for many people this seems absurd.
What do you think?