During a time of great drought, a Taoist master was asked by members of a village if he could help bring rain to their dry fields. They confessed trying many other approaches before reaching out to him, but with no success.
The master agreed to come and asked for a small hut with a garden that he could tend. For three days, he tended the garden, performing no special rituals or asking anything further from the villagers. On the fourth day, rain began to fall on the parched earth.
When asked how he had achieved such a miracle, the master answered that he was not responsible for the rain. However, he explained, when he came to the village, he had sensed disharmony within himself. Each day, as he tended the garden, he returned a little more to himself. When he returned to balance, the rain came naturally.
Apparently, this was one of psychologist Carl Jung’s favorite stories, told to him by Richard Wilhelm, translator of the Chinese divination text, I Ching: Book of Changes.
The Taoist master did not cause the rain to fall. But the “synchronicity” of events made it appear so. Synchronicity could be understood as coincidences threaded together by meaning. And the meaning in this case was that an outer event mirrored the inner balance achieved by the master.
Have you ever wondered about the coincidences in your life? The “synchronicity” of events? Could it be The Law of Attraction? Are your thoughts creating things? People, events and circumstances?
I think so 🙂
Keep manifesting only good things 🙂
Tony
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