The Concept Of The Living Force
The living force itself is everlasting, and the universe continues through all of infinity. The reason that the universe is able to endure and continue the way it has been, is because it does not actually live for itself. The same is true of the force, it does not live for itself. It simply is. But the living force is not only eternal, but it is everywhere, in all things. All things depend on it for life, which it gives to them effortlessly. There is not a single living thing that can refuse obedience to the whims of the force, but when its work is accomplished, it does not even bother to claim the name of having done it. It clothes every creature, every planet, and forms life itself even now, and still makes no claim of being their lord.
It can be named in the smallest and greatest of things, all things that are born, which then die and return to their root and vanish. They do not know that the force presides over their doing so. But the true Master, in the same way, is able to accomplish great things while at the same time not making himself appear great. Planets do not live for their own sakes, neither do stars. There are those who study the force, who believe that the stars embody the force itself. I agree with that notion to the extent that the stars embody the living force, because they do not live OF themselves or FOR themselves, and this is how they are able to continue and endure for so long. The True Master, therefore, echoing this natural wisdom, will put himself last, and yet through doing so will be able to achieve oneness with the living force, and with the universe. He treats himself as though he were foreign, as though he did not matter, and yet he is preserved eternally.
The great scholars of the force, when they learn about the force they will earnestly study and put it into practice. Heeding its wisdom, and realizing its transcendental nature. While the lesser scholars, who still have merit but to a greater extent, disregard the wisdom of the force. When they learn about the force, they try to possess it, to keep it for themselves. They wish not to lose their understanding of the force. In their vanity and greedy desire to hoard the force for themselves, they believe it is something that can be obtained for mortal purposes. The worst scholars of the force are those who became like the Sith, because when they learned about the force, they laughed greatly at it. But if the force were not laughed at in this way, it would not be fit to be the force. Those who understand the force do not argue about it, they do not dispute it. The disputatious are not skilled in it, and those who know the force are not extensively learned, and they extensively learned do not know the force. Because those who know the living force, realize that it is a hidden thing, but it is the force which is able to impart all things, making them complete.
