The Simple Laws of the Universe

In order to realise the simple laws of the universe,
we don’t have to look to the exotic.

The simple laws of the universe
are the simple laws of the mind – sentience.

We can test this for ourself. When we walk into a room full of people, there are those who attract our attention, those whom we avoid, and those we ignore. That’s it. We all do this, but we don’t notice it, or we aren’t honest about it.

All interactions are based on this – it’s the reason why we take sides, and never have a complete picture.

When we actually realise our true essence of pure consciousness rather than just reading about it, we understand much more than whatever is written in a book. This is the difference between a maintenance person (someone who tops up the oil) and a spiritual engineer (someone who knows the mechanics inside out).

There is one universal law which has a gross aspect and a subtle aspect. Gross refers to the laws of attraction, repulsion and inertia: in human terms, these are desire, aversion and ignorance. This how sentient creatures survive, maintain their confusion, argue and suffer – flight, fight, and freeze.

The corresponding subtle laws are emptiness, cognisance and compassion. These laws are the very essence of our being, and realising them brings an end to confusion, argument and suffering. 🙂

Consciousness is cognisant space of the mind which is uncontaminated. When this is realised, we understand that the essence of the minds of all sentient beings is also cognisant space, but they are unaware of this truth. This is how compassion arises.

The essence of mind is pure consciousness, but when this mind becomes full of ideas due to desires/likes, mind becomes contaminated. When we forget the purity of consciousness, judgements/dislikes take place and aversion arises. Because we ignore our clinging to likes and dislikes, we lack compassionate understanding and so, we suffer.

To put it simply:
Emptiness of mind becomes contaminated through desire.
Cognisance, forgetting its empty essence, then becomes judgemental, and aversion arises.
Compassion then transforms into ignore-ance.

When we are ignorant of these subtle laws,
we are driven by gross laws.