Recently someone asked whether or not the world is in chaos. A truly excellent question – and what does it have to do with karma?
Perhaps the answer is that the world is absolutely not in chaos. The world is actually quite orderly. (Do we rally think FEDEX could operate in a chaotic world???) All over the world, people get up, and start their day. They plan their activities, go to do some type of work, ponder feeding their families, the state of their governments, the state of their surroundings and who their kids will marry. Many wonder how will they educate their kids and how will they deal with difficult family members.
Traffic flows all over the world, even in chaotic seeming Italy. The entire world is connected to the Internet. This means that there is electrical power to all countries, the type of power that can support a computer. [It may not be stable, but it is frequently there!] Airplanes move over one million human beings a day through the air and land in all countries on the planet. Food is grown, delivered, sold and prepared. People eat out. People think, they love, they sleep they live and they die. This is the order of life. This is an orderly life. There is no chaos in this scenario.
It is the odd situation that makes the news, the out of the ordinary problem or emotional outburst or anger that hits the papers. Most of the time, life just goes on. If this were not the case, if it were chaos, there would be no CNN or even television – or free flow of traffic on land, sea and air. All would cease.
Personal chaos occurs when the utterly unexpected happens: we become divorced, a loved one dies, we lose our job, get married and/or have a baby. In those moments of enormous change, we feel that we have lost our footing and we do feel chaos. However, whether we realize it or not, we actively seek to reestablish the ordinariness of our days, for there is comfort in that mundane routine.
So, how does this affect karma? Maybe, just maybe karmically, we are doing better than we think. Maybe, in each small, insignificant moment, in each prayer that is said, a difference is made. Things get better. Each smile that is given changes a karmic moment in a positive way. As we trust the orderliness of our days, we trust that we will be OK and we trust that we are safe to move ahead. That sometimes, boring sameness, is our security and it is a wonderful concept.
So, the more we see the world as a calm, delightful place, a place of wonder, perhaps the world can become what we create. This is the orderly macrocosm of the microcosm of our days. These concepts can make life a wonderful experience.
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