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Why Terrible Things Happen To People?

Issues: … reality of evil … reality … opposites at work … love applied to reality … the bad and the good … Ivan the Terrible … Dalai Lama the Good … positive and negative …

Is it bad luck? No, it is not just or always bad luck, according to this author-psychologist who has experienced life. Luck has nothing to do with bad things happening to you and others.

• Bad things happen because they must.
• Bad things happen because someone has been trying to be too good.
• Bad things happen because the archetypes work in pairs.

Watch out that when something positive is happening for you that also something negative is not going to happen. Yes, the negative and the positive always go together because the nature of the universe is itself run as a combination of polarities, or opposites.

Humanity’s recognition of the need to make sacrifice acknowledges this universal factor of opposites always at work. In sacrifice you always give up possession of that which will be taken from you anyway.

The Dalai Lama of Tibet is my age but has spent his life fighting for Tibetan independence. In this he has been stupid. He can live in exile and look good to foreigners in his travels around the world in his religious costumes and complain about the Chinese taking over Tibet, but he doesn’t understand a thing about opposites apparently.

Back when the Dalai Lama escaped into exile and the Tibetans fought the invading Chinese the Dalai Lama and his advisors did not face reality.

The Chinese leaders were consolidating China in a new way. They obviously did not want a Western power inhabiting Tibet to protect the Tibetans and contain the communist Chinese. So China acted because it had the army and the will to do so.

The Dalai Lama did not compromise. He did not negotiate with Chou En-Lie the Chinese leader of the time. The Dalai Lama did not say, you are by far the superior political power and I recognize your perceived need to have Tibet as part of China. Tibet is yours for the taking.

However, Tibet has a rich, ancient culture with all our monasteries. I would like to ask you to accept us as a cultural value and indigenous people with our own language and traditions. This can have positive value for China as well. For it will show the world that we two cooperate and there need be no conflicts that cannot be solved through cooperation.

I would like to stay and keep the Tibetan ancient culture going, but not be political, which you do best. I should be your ally, even your friend, if we can cooperate. I ask you only to preserve Tibetan culture and its people as of value still to this modern world. I offer to lead my people to cooperate with you as you do your important and historic work of unifying China under a new and better way of governing. I recognize we are not to be an independent, isolated nation any longer and hopefully I can lead my people in this direction.

The above is not what the Dalai Lama says in his public speeches around the world. He is not essentially even spiritual in leading with love in the world in all we do. For love is the way. Love is the way of compromise, acceptance and reconciliation.

I don’t know what got into the Tibetans, but they seem like a war-like and righteous people unable to handle reality, and China is reality, folks. It also is based on an ancient and rich culture. China also is doing almost its best to be a positive and growing culture for its people and the world.

What an achievement if the Dalai Lama and his people had learned what Jesus taught, which was to compromise with your supposed enemy and go the second mile as the realistic thing to do.

Why do terrible things happen to good and bad people?

The above historical example illustrates the point: if you don’t follow the laws of reality as they are they you will provoke extreme reactions to yourself and others.

Here is an opposite historical example from Russian history.

Ivan the Terrible was terrible. He threw people to the dogs literally to be chewed up. He had the power to rule ruthlessly and he did. Once he decided to visit Novgorod in a travel with his entourage from Moscow. Novgorod heard about his immediate coming and feared for their lives, such was Ivan’s reputation. They knew they were already dead.

Ah, yes, they had the Christian religion, but would they use its precepts?

The leadership came up with a plan. The cooks got to cooking. Everybody got involved and the people of Novgorod set up the most lavish of feasts they could conjure outside the opened city gates.

Ivan the Terrible and his little army arrived, liked what they saw, feasted, had a great time, saw that the city was open and that he was the supreme commander, and left the people alone.

Ivan had not had to kill, torture or terrorize anyone to show who was in charge of the land. He was treated in a friendly and respectful manner, and so were his special friends and followers.

When potential evil is about to strike, accept it and create with it. Is this not a more realistic policy?

Resist and you will be resisted. Fight and you will be fought. Love and you will be loved. Are these not realistic statements about the reality of this world we live in?

Now the big thing is also to apply these teachings to our personal lives.

Would you not be a fool not to do so?

Fools vanish. They go under quite easily in this life …

That’s all I can say here …

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