The Tilted Teacup and the Timing of Receiving: The World Turns Just Right Because of It

To Fudo Falls

When I went in front of the small shrine, the teacup was tilted halfway over.
Last time, it should have been completely knocked over.

It is not a place where people come very often, so I wonder if someone set it upright? And yet, it is tilted again...
It was a mysterious sight.

As I looked at it, a voice suddenly welled up in my head from somewhere.
“If you fix it, something good will happen.”

Ah, is that so? Perhaps there really is a benefit. Even as I thought that, my body did not move at first. Because my body did not move, I thought, “Perhaps this is not my role right now.”

I left that spot and headed to the spring water a little further up. I collect water gushing from the mountain into a plastic bottle.

When I returned with the water, I became concerned about the teacup again and cast my eyes toward it.

That voice called out to me, changing its form many times.
“You can easily receive a benefit, so why are you refusing it?”

I still do not know if that was my own thought or something else. I was just quietly observing that voice that kept making suggestions. As I was watching it like that, when my feelings suddenly shifted to, “Maybe I could try fixing it once,” it happened.

I tried to put down the heavy two-liter bottle of water I was holding in my hand a little further ahead before going back. However, the place where I tried to put it was wet, and I hesitated to place the cloth bag containing the water there.

At that moment, a sensation suddenly descended upon me.
My heart was drawn to the freedom of leaving something that is bothering me just as it is, while it is still bothering me.

It was not something I thought about with my head; the situation itself left the answer for me.

As I walked down the approach to the shrine, something suddenly welled up in me.

One is that “benefits are always raining down on everyone.”
It is the same as sunlight. Even if we do not do anything to try to catch it, we are already in that light.

The other is about the “timing of receiving.”
Even if I fixed the teacup and a benefit really did happen immediately, I felt that it would be “too early” for me right now.

For example, suppose you want a car and you suddenly get one. Even if you are happy, there is the cost of gasoline, parking fees, taxes... If you get it too early, it becomes difficult to maintain it afterward.

Receiving something in reality means accepting the subsequent reality as a set.
Even if you do not rush, if it is a truly necessary benefit, it should come naturally at a time when you can lightly accept it, including its “maintenance costs.”

The teacup that someone set upright, and is now slightly tilted again.
Even that, I could think, “That is fine, it is natural as it is.” I believe the world turns just right from the beginning because of that.