What if beyond my limited awareness bubble, the Law of Compensation is not a law? What if it’s an illusion, a perceptual result of defense of separation that I experience as lack?
By applying a mental filter, I can see this law in action in what I observe. That is, when I see someone achieve a goal, I can apply this “law” and assume that person helped enough others achieve their goals. So, applying it to my own life, I get busy helping other people achieve their goals so I can achieve mine.
It’s a simple business transaction: I give value, I get value. Value for value. Fairness. And, as we all know, the universe is nothing if not fair.
It’s always unfair to the one who feels dissatisfied. (anon)
Assuming the law is true, all I have to do is help some people get what they want, then sit back and wait for the universe to “pay up.” Since it’s the law, I should expect payment. When my expectations are not met, I have to wonder why. Maybe I didn’t help enough people or the right people. Or…
Maybe the Law of Compensation is not really a law after all.
What if there is another way to understand this than as a natural law, like gravity, that must be obeyed? What if my expectation of fairness is more a want than a law? What if there was never a hole to fill or loss to compensate for? Might it just be an illusion that confirms my belief in justice?
Compensation For What?
In order for the law of compensation to have any meaning, one must accept the concept of lack as a fundamental truth. That is, one must work to achieve what they lack. One must compensate for a deficit.
What happens when I no longer perceive lack? When I thoroughly and completely accept the concept of wholeness?
According to the Law of Compensation, where there is loss, there must be compensation. From a wholeness perspective, there is no loss. So, in order to preserve the “law” as a law, I must invent a loss or deficit for which I must compensate. To balance loss there must be gain to equal out the exchange. Thankfully, I have a good imagination!
Perhaps I invented the Law of Compensation in order to feel certain things – like a sense of personal:
- growth – to compensate for diminishing sense of individualism
- justice – to compensate for a sense of loss of rightness when wronged
- fairness – to compensate for a sense of disadvantage in a competitive world
- balance – to compensate for my feelings of imbalance
All these defend my position within First and Second Degrees of Illumination. And defend me against enlightenment beyond that. While I hold out the Law of Compensation as truth, I will remain limited in:
- awareness of what may lie beyond fairness, justice, and defense.
- gratitude for what is – as my focus is always on lack that needs compensating for.
- awakening to the unlimited Self – as I’ve limited Self to perceiving life as a transaction.
- connection to everything in my external reality.
I wonder how my life might look when my perspective is no longer one of lack needing compensation. Perhaps when I no longer perceive myself as a deficit to the universe, I will no longer have to obey the Law of Compensation.
