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There is a joke about a man asking God: “Lord, what is the best way to make You laugh?” God answers: “Tell me about your plans.” So stands the question: Why do our plans make God laugh?
It is because, when we plan, we think we are above life’s events, as if we could plan a future already set in God’s view. This is completely unjustified, and this is the meaning of our plans making God laugh. In other words, from the perspective of the upper force—the force we call “God,” “the Creator,” or “Nature” that is beyond our very intellect and emotions, which created and develops them and which has planned every detail of reality—then the fact that we think that we can somehow plan outside or differently to the plan that is already in place, is indeed a ridiculous notion.
On the other hand, we see how people constantly make plans for their future, even just planning a summer vacation or the tasks they have to carry out on any given day. But if we had a deeper view of reality, then we would see that we cannot program ourselves for the future. Doing so, as Woland once stated, requires us to know what will happen at least 1,000 years in advance. I thus would say that we cannot truly plan anything.
Can we then live without plans? We can live without plans if we put our plans aside and accept the plans of the next, upper level. What kinds of plans are these? What plan do we then live by? We then live by the plan of the upper nature, the Creator, the single force of love, bestowal, and connection that has already planned our entire existence.
We can then imagine that we want only to be in close contact with this force. Such a “plan” does not make God laugh. We can then organize ourselves to seek such contact, and we place no importance on what actually happens to us because we cling to the causal force of our lives, which lies beyond our plans, thoughts, and emotions. In such a state, we also have no interest in knowing the Creator’s plans. We simply give ourselves over to the Creator, and let the upper plan in nature guide us. That is, we enter into complete agreement with it.
God then does not laugh at our plans, but rejoices in the way we direct our desires at the connection with Him. Our own plans are always connected to self-pride, that we separate ourselves as an individual entity, seemingly outside of the Creator’s rule. The Creator ultimately wants us to remove this layer of self-pride because it greatly limits how fully we can perceive, sense, and delight in the reality He created. We need to eventually realize that self-pride—the self-serving ego that gives us a perception of separation, incompleteness, and transience—is a quality that does nothing but harm us.
In an era when more and more people’s plans are completely falling apart, the ability to deal with such difficulties depends on how we prepare ourselves for the fact that our plans will not materialize and that we will have to align them with God’s plan. By doing so, we will be able to truly enjoy a harmonious and peaceful life.
In other words, we make our plans, but in the end, what transpires is according to the Creator’s will. We need to make plans, but we also need to convince ourselves that what will materialize is the Creator’s plan, not our own. The beneficial message here for planning our lives is, then, to do as we deem best, but the outcome will be as the Creator decides. We should thus add “If the Creator wills” to every plan we make in life.
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