The Significance Of Three
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Our best chance for happiness is education. - Mark van Doren
Let’s see, Carbon Oxygen Nitrogen, Brahma Shiva Vishnu, Red White Blue, Past Present Future, there’s something powerful about threes, combinations of three seem to represent a platform or a sound foundation we can build on. Taking that as a location I thought for many years about the constituents of leading a meaningful and purposeful life, which seems to be something that all of us are interested in, and developed a three vectored approach:
Development
Fulfilment
Happiness
Each of these components works individually but significantly they interact with one another, I actually see them as a moving diagram whereby they rotate and subsequently form a dynamo that draws things to itself, good things, just as in Einstein’s Special Relativity paper a dynamo draws energy from the atmosphere and generates its own magnetic field.
Development… I see to be the over-riding principle that governs all our lives from the day that we are born, all our activities are about refinement, from learning to walk to becoming a more accomplished speaker to thinking more effectively and so on to encompass all that you do. My own strategy is, whatever you do, try to do it better than last time. The area is huge, huge, huge, and it can’t be summed up adequately in one paragraph, just know that development is the urge to grow that accompanies us each step of the way and is the key to our personal emancipation.
Fulfilment… this follows on from development; there is no greater feeling than the feeling of something done well because that is what you set out to do and that is what you accomplished. The reward is in simply doing things to the best of your ability and the feeling of fulfilment that promotes in self. It can be fine tuned along the way but that is where development comes into the picture as part of a binary system that swings like a pendulum between the two.
Happiness… the natural state that the activation of the other two promotes. It is a subliminal thing that often defies description because it is a plastic mediator that forms up differently in each of us. When certain conditions are in place then happiness is the resultant process. This is why there is a tripod or trio in the system, the three components each power the other and a dynamic medium is created within your life.
We can all do these things in our lives whatever the circumstance we find ourselves in. We can learn to activate and integrate the three members of our trio in our lives. Development is not only a few enlightened beings locked away in monasteries hidden in faraway, inaccessible places. We’re all in this together, for better or worse, the days of finding a cave and becoming a hermit are passed, the tallest peaks these days are littered with the trash left by mountaineers so you wont get the privacy you used to be able to count on anyway! What this is saying is, don’t wait for the ideal moment or situation; the ideal moment and situation is here and now.