Wish come true

Strange but true ------------- Twenty years ago I was in my house getting ready to leave for an important meeting which started promptly at 5pm. But since my car was in the garage for a few days I would have to walk. But as I left the house I noticed that it was already nearly 5pm, and it would take me at least 7 minutes to walk to the meeting -by which time the doors would be locked. Undaunted, I thought to myself: "If Nature wants me to get to this meeting (which was a group meditation session), then Nature will provide the means to get me there on time". So with that thought in mind I confidently strolled out of my house and started walking towards the main road. Minutes later a small white car came hurtling down the road and stopped just inches beside me with the passenger door open. Thinking it was a neighbour offering me a lift I looked into the car and said: "Thanks for stopping, are you going to the meditation centre?" To which this total stranger replied: "What meditation centre? No, I was simply driving down this road, and as I turned the corner my passengers door flew open and I'm stopping to close the door. But if you want a lift I'll take you where you want to go". Needless to say I got to the meeting just in time. My take on this odd-sounding occurrence is simply that Nature organised the car ride for me. Or another way to look at it is: Nature carried out my wish (which was to get to the meeting on time). How Nature accomplished this is, I believe, very simple. Everything and everybody is connected by one underlying field. Or as the archery master told his student - German philosophy professor Eugen Herrigel - in the classic book Zen in the Art of Archery..... "The spider dances her web without knowing that there are flies who will get caught in it. The fly, dancing nonchalantly on a sunbeam, gets caught in the net without knowing what lies in store. But through both of them "It" dances, and inside and outside are united in this dance. "It" is of course Nature, or consciousness, or if you like: God, that 'dances' or acts through all things. Or as physics now understands, one underlying intelligence is at the root of all matter, and differences on the surface of life are basically an illusion.