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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck  This is the teaching that I find to be untrue, and apparently you do too. |
Actually, no. Do read the last paragraph of that post of mine.
IMO, in general, it is actually not merely false, but egoistic, to believe that your intentions come true mainly because of your own actions. This kind of falsity stems from a very small view of reality.
Imagine a bird living in a forest. It has the desire to live, and it lives. Is this intention manifested solely by its own deliberate actions? Of course not. An entire ecosystem exists, to sustain the bird's life. Not to mention, a host of biological & chemical processes in its own body.
And the same applies for us. Say I form the intention to be very successful in my career and to be promoted, and I succeed. Even if we disregard the LOA entirely, can I truly say that my success and promotion is due solely by my own actions?
Of course not! There are numerous other factors, such as:
(1) the organisational needs of the company at the time
(2) the relative performance of my colleagues
(3) the support of my colleagues
(4) the subjective opinions of my boss
(5) the details of HR policies relating to promotions
(6) the availability of resources that enable me to do my work well
(7) the movements of other people in the organisation (some may resign; leave; transfer, creating the space for me to be promoted);
(8) my serendipitious good fortune in reading some Steve Pavlina article about productivity or effective communication, which unconsciously influenced me at work; and
(9) the entire global economy which ultimately affects the national economy which ultimately affects my company and its growth, which affects its need to promote me.
In this sense, one view is that a person's own actions may be said to play a minimal role in his own life. Instead great invisible forces are constantly at work which the person may or may not be aware of at all. (And what I'm suggesting here is that consciousness is the thread that weaves those forces together into a tapestry called that person's reality).
The person who thinks that things happen in his life, mainly because of his own actions, is just having a small little view of reality. So very small, that his own limited actions appear to be very large in the overall scheme of that reality's things.