*Hi all,
I am now back from my holiday in Europe and I can tell you that it was both eventful, (heavy in parts but with amazing resolution), and wonderful. And in all parts I got an experience of the Universe reaching out to me to confirm that I am mainly on the right path. I will relate here the part that was wonderful.
I had hummed and hawwed for some time about swimming with dolphins. Now I am totally against holding dolphins in captivity and am not sure about swimming on "wild" dolphin programmes. Although I know that for many people swimming with dolphins is a dream I think that the most important consideration with any of these activities if the welfare of the animals involved and not the wishes, hopes or aspiration of the humans. Although I must admit that the lure of my desire was so strong that I did consider a "wild" dolphin programme swim. However as Fate(?) would procure it this was not to be. So I settle to go on a dive instead. (I am an avid scuba diver).
I went with a friend I had made in Europe on a private dive in his yacht miles in the middle of the ocean. And what happened just as I was coming up from my dive? A pod of dolphins circled me and one swam so close to me that it just touched my arm. (I would never try to touch any animal without it's permission). Fortunately the moment was captured on camera. Just one photo. So no I didn't swim with dolphins. They swam with me.
I do believe that if we act with best intentions that we are rewarded ultimately. That is the Law of Karma. The reward is not always as straight away or as evident as in what happened to me on my holiday, but in this case I think I got a magical confirmation from the Universe that my choice not to swim with dolphins was the correct one.
Of course Karma only rewards if you do have best intentions and doesn't work if you merely act good for reward. The paradox is that although Karma will reward you for doing good it does not seem to work if reward is your motivation for acting good! I suppose in a ultimate sense doing good because you hope to be rewarded is not really "best intentions". It is of course better that doing Evil but it certainly is not "best intentions".
Until next time,
As always,
KK
* The quote on the poster says "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will only love what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." Baba Dium (environmentalist).
