Showing posts with label abundance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abundance. Show all posts

Friday, 31 October 2014

UNINTELLiGENT GREED OF HUMAN ZOMBIE





From experience, I believe that greed is a fact of life, that needs to be managed and regulated in a fair way, before it destroys our species. I understand what I am writing about, because of my own selfish experience. I also believe greed, has positive aspects, that are communally positive, grounded again in experience, rather than fanciful theory, but it is a simply a question of how it is managed and regulated by society. This is a question, that needs to be carefully, considered urgently, by the greater dialectic of commonsense and acted upon immediately, otherwise the eugenicists will have their way, as they did in World war 1&2, rationalized by films such as the above. I also believe, from personal experience, that there is more than enough on this planet, for everyone to travel first class, if we organize our greed reality intelligently, with mind, body and soul. If you agree with this post, I ask you to share it far and wide, while provoking or encouraging debate about it.

"Every seed is awakened and so is all animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our animal neighbours the same right as ourselves, to inhabit this land."

Sitting Bull

Embracing Spiritual Abundance

Submitted by Trinity

In the many years of awakened life I have witnessed abundance spoken about in a myriad of different ways. I’ve noticed that in all its different guises, there are two main ways in which it is interpreted.
1. Having lots of what we desire
    2. Seeing the divine in all things

Having lots of what we desire

The first way is dictated by our wants and desires. Being abundant in this sense means having ‘a lot of’ stuff, resources, money, property, land, people or anything tangible for that matter.
It’s the type of abundance that seeks gratification and a sense of happiness from the outside world. Of course, everything is energy, so there is nothing wrong with having ‘stuff’ if we are meant to; if it serves/assists our journey of self realisation or if we are not depending on it for our sense of abundance and personal self worth.

The possession trade off


Acquiring sense of personal achievement (or abundance) by having lots of stuff always has a trade off. Eventually, possession based satisfaction leads to a ‘lack of’ feeling. How ironic! If it is not abruptly taken away from you (which often happens), then it's as if there is something missing that you can’t quite put your finger on. A soulful searching, reaching, yearning, bubbles away, growing in intensity until we either break down, suppress with something else (drugs, alcohol, comfort foods, TV etc) or surrender to it. The longing of the soul towards its own liberation and expansiveness will eventually have its way - maybe not today, maybe not even soon, but inevitably in some lifetime or other. The soul is like a river flowing back to the ocean. It will either keep evolving to ever higher levels of consciousness, or it will simply dissolve back into the source.
Deep inner peace and spiritual liberation can never be fully attained by the attachment to stuff. This is an illusionary abundance, that is always doomed to fail.
I imagine this is why so many spiritual people give up all or a lot of their possessions when they really start walking the spiritual path. It stems from an authentic urge, to lighten the burdensome attachment to the load.

Seeing the divine in all things

The second type of abundance is what I would term true spiritual abundance. I mean ‘true’ in the sense that it transcends the matrix of mass conditioning, whilst embracing that which is beyond the veil of illusion.
True abundance is shown by an authentic, omnipresent gratitude for the divinity in all things.
This is typically prolific for those who have awakened spiritually to unity consciousness.
The experience of true abundance is rarely an intellectual one. The experience exudes a deep gratitude for the moment, for breath, for existence, for experience. Those who have truly touched unity consciousness see the divine in all things.
When you are blessed enough to see the divine in all things, you can connect to the flow. They go hand in hand. Everything is divinely given. Everything is an opportunity to BE. We want for nothing, because we embody the knowing that we already have everything. Our true nature expands through the entire universe; through and beyond all things. We become both everything and nothing. You can only really know this once unity consciousness has been fully embodied and you've expanded into presence.
When we see the divine in all things, we might not have two pennies to rub together; we might lack a home or a family. Yet we are filled with the very divine energy that we see in all things. We are truly abundant!

Less is more


It’s no coincidence that the less people have, the happier they tend to be. Of course not everyone is like this, but I have definitely noticed a general trend. People with less learn to make the most of what they have. They learn to be more creative and resourceful. They learn to make stuff, repair stuff, to find joy in the littlest of things. They learn to work together, pool resources, play games, laugh more, understand one another more and entertain each other through dancing, singing and creative arts. It’s a fact that those with the least money will typically be more charitable to others who are less fortunate than themselves. They don’t tend to hoard or protect what they have, but rather trust that they have enough. They understand how they have been blessed with what they have and gain more inner abundance by sharing that. I have seen this time and time again. I have seen people possessing very little in monetary value, who are infinitely more abundant than their wealthy cousins.

The measure of true spiritual abundance


A great measurement of our level of abundance is the amount of unhindered peace we feel within.
The more aligned we are with the flow of higher consciousness, the more we allow the divine to flow freely through us. The more the divine flows freely through us, the more we feel profound peace at the core of our being. I have found this to be the most effective gauge of abundance.
If we have profound inner peace - what more would we want anyway?
I’ve met some of the most amazing people who are a divine embodiment of true spiritual abundance. You know when you see them, because they exude a pulsating energy of clear light. If they are open (and not jealous or threatened by another) then this pulse makes others around them touch true spiritual abundance within aswell. It's contagious. It's a free flowing wealth, available to all who trust in it.

Leaving matrix based conditioning


Most awakened people initially dance between ‘possession based abundance’ and ‘true spiritual abundance’. Once the spiritual path appears fully on the horizon, an increasing dissatisfaction with anything that is not divinely inspired becomes noticeably prevalent.
It is inevitable, that as a person becomes more and more aligned with the divine flow, they will become an increasing embodiment of true spiritual abundance.
True spiritual abundance is your destiny!
So, if you need some encouragement to fully embody true spiritual abundance - take inspiration from anything that resonates in this sharing and let it flow. Embrace the divine within you until it starts to bubble over and flood into the world!
Soul to soul
Trinity
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Thursday, 29 May 2014

LOVE AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM OF PATIENT ABUNDANCE BEGINS AT HOME






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If you have love in your heart but are apathetic with respect to the reality of what's going on around you, what you can be left with is simply a formula for tyranny. And that's because if you ignore the injustices that are being perpetrated upon others, and you have no active response to it, what you call love is not enough. The truth is, God is real and not a myth. You can think of Him anyway you want, but God will still be God, no matter what you think. And what I know about God is this: God is the utmost example of truth, honor, dignity, compassion, courage, and love. And in that truth is the respect for your freedom and free will. God will expose you to an understanding as you look for understanding, but He will not make you do anything, for He respects your free will. He will let you learn from your experience knowing that with enough experience you will come to value truth, honor, dignity, compassion, courage, and love. Somewhere in experience, I think, is the understanding that love includes compassion, and courage, and the dignity of seeking the truth, and the honor of being an expression of that which you have learned. And I don't think that leads to apathy, or ignoring what's going on around you, what's happening to other people, or where things are going if people with love in their hearts don't act to intercede on their behalf.

Mark A. Goldman

The Impossibility of Growth Demands a New Economic System

Why collapse and salvation are hard to distinguish from each other.

By George Monbiot May 28 2014 "ICH" - "Monbiot" - - Let us imagine that in 3030BC the total possessions of the people of Egypt filled one cubic metre. Let us propose that these possessions grew by 4.5% a year. How big would that stash have been by the Battle of Actium in 30BC? This is the calculation performed by the investment banker Jeremy Grantham (1).
Go on, take a guess. Ten times the size of the pyramids? All the sand in the Sahara? The Atlantic ocean? The volume of the planet? A little more? It’s 2.5 billion billion solar systems (2). It does not take you long, pondering this outcome, to reach the paradoxical position that salvation lies in collapse.
To succeed is to destroy ourselves. To fail is to destroy ourselves. That is the bind we have created. Ignore if you must climate change, biodiversity collapse, the depletion of water, soil, minerals, oil; even if all these issues were miraculously to vanish, the mathematics of compound growth make continuity impossible.
Economic growth is an artefact of the use of fossil fuels. Before large amounts of coal were extracted, every upswing in industrial production would be met with a downswing in agricultural production, as the charcoal or horse power required by industry reduced the land available for growing food. Every prior industrial revolution collapsed, as growth could not be sustained(3). But coal broke this cycle and enabled – for a few hundred years – the phenomenon we now call sustained growth.
It was neither capitalism nor communism that made possible the progress and the pathologies (total war, the unprecedented concentration of global wealth, planetary destruction) of the modern age. It was coal, followed by oil and gas. The meta-trend, the mother narrative, is carbon-fuelled expansion. Our ideologies are mere subplots. Now, as the most accessible reserves have been exhausted, we must ransack the hidden corners of the planet to sustain our impossible proposition.
On Friday, a few days after scientists announced that the collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheet is now inevitable(4), the Ecuadorean government decided that oil drilling would go ahead in the heart of the Yasuni national park(5). It had made an offer to other governments: if they gave it half the value of the oil in that part of the park, it would leave the stuff in the ground. You could see this as blackmail or you could see it as fair trade. Ecuador is poor, its oil deposits are rich: why, the government argued, should it leave them untouched without compensation when everyone else is drilling down to the inner circle of hell? It asked for $3.6bn and received $13m. The result is that Petroamazonas, a company with a colourful record of destruction and spills(6), will now enter one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, in which a hectare of rainforest is said to contain more species than exist in the entire continent of North America(7).
The UK oil company Soco is now hoping to penetrate Africa’s oldest national park, Virunga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo(8); one of the last strongholds of the mountain gorilla and the okapi, of chimpanzees and forest elephants. In Britain, where a possible 4.4 billion barrels of shale oil has just been identified in the south-east(9), the government fantasises about turning the leafy suburbs into a new Niger delta. To this end it’s changing the trespass laws to enable drilling without consent and offering lavish bribes to local people(10,11). These new reserves solve nothing. They do not end our hunger for resources; they exacerbate it.
The trajectory of compound growth shows that the scouring of the planet has only just begun. As the volume of the global economy expands, everywhere that contains something concentrated, unusual, precious will be sought out and exploited, its resources extracted and dispersed, the world’s diverse and differentiated marvels reduced to the same grey stubble.
Some people try to solve the impossible equation with the myth of dematerialisation: the claim that as processes become more efficient and gadgets are miniaturised, we use, in aggregate, fewer materials. There is no sign that this is happening. Iron ore production has risen 180% in ten years(12). The trade body Forest Industries tell us that “global paper consumption is at a record high level and it will continue to grow.”(13) If, in the digital age, we won’t reduce even our consumption of paper, what hope is there for other commodities?
Look at the lives of the super-rich, who set the pace for global consumption. Are their yachts getting smaller? Their houses? Their artworks? Their purchase of rare woods, rare fish, rare stone? Those with the means buy ever bigger houses to store the growing stash of stuff they will not live long enough to use. By unremarked accretions, ever more of the surface of the planet is used to extract, manufacture and store things we don’t need. Perhaps it’s unsurprising that fantasies about the colonisation of space – which tell us we can export our problems instead of solving them – have resurfaced(14).
As the philosopher Michael Rowan points out, the inevitabilities of compound growth mean that if last year’s predicted global growth rate for 2014 (3.1%) is sustained, even if we were miraculously to reduce the consumption of raw materials by 90% we delay the inevitable by just 75 years(15). Efficiency solves nothing while growth continues.
The inescapable failure of a society built upon growth and its destruction of the Earth’s living systems are the overwhelming facts of our existence. As a result they are mentioned almost nowhere. They are the 21st Century’s great taboo, the subjects guaranteed to alienate your friends and neighbours. We live as if trapped inside a Sunday supplement: obsessed with fame, fashion and the three dreary staples of middle class conversation: recipes, renovations and resorts. Anything but the topic that demands our attention.
Statements of the bleeding obvious, the outcomes of basic arithmetic, are treated as exotic and unpardonable distractions, while the impossible proposition by which we live is regarded as so sane and normal and unremarkable that it isn’t worthy of mention. That’s how you measure the depth of this problem: by our inability even to discuss it.
References:
2. Grantham expressed this volume as 1057 cubic metres. In his paper We Need To Talk About Growth, Michael Rowan translated this as 2.5 billion billion solar systems. (http://persuademe.com.au/need-talk-growth-need-sums-well/). This source gives the volume of the solar system (if it is treated as a sphere) at 39,629,013,196,241.7 cubic kilometres, which is roughly 40 x 1021 cubic metres. Multiplied by 2.5 billion billion, this gives 1041 cubic metres. So, unless I’ve got the wrong figure for the volume of the solar system or screwed my units up, which is eminently possible, Michael Rowan’s translation looks like an underestimate. I’ll stick with his figure though, as I don’t have much confidence in my own. Any improvements, comments or corrections via the contact form gratefully received.
3. EA Wrigley, 2010. Energy and the English Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press.
12. Philippe Sibaud, 2012. Opening Pandora’s Box: The New Wave of Land Grabbing by the Extractive Industries and the Devastating Impact on Earth. The Gaia Foundation. http://www.gaiafoundation.org/opening-pandoras-box
15. Michael Rowan, 2014. We Need To Talk About Growth (And we need to do the sums as well.) http://persuademe.com.au/need-talk-growth-need-sums-well/
© 2014 George Monbiot
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Monday, 30 July 2012

Abundance







Spiritual Excellence
How to Attract Abundance, Spiritual Success Tip #1: Appreciate Others
by IHSAN on MARCH 10, 2011

The act of appreciating another is one of the most powerful ways to not only transcend the self and overcome the ego, but also one of the most effective ways to attract goodness and abundance into your life.

Commonly known as the Golden Rule, which is generally paraphrased as “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” desiring and appreciating the good fortune of another is so important that it may even be said to lead to the essence of true belief.

“And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” — Jesus


“That which you want for yourself, seek for mankind.”

“The most righteous of believers is the one who is glad that others should have what is pleasing to himself, and who dislikes for others what for him is disagreeable.”
Quote of  Muhammad




That this is fundamentally the goal of spirituality is demonstrated beautifully in the movie The Book of Eli, where true belief is contrasted with hypocrisy, and Eli, the messenger and servant of truth, ultimately summarizes the core lesson of the spiritual path as simply, “Want for your brother what you want for yourself.”


“Want for your brother what you want for yourself. At least that’s what I got out of it.” — Quote of Eli (The Book of Eli)

The Problem of Egoism and Selfishness

The fundamental spiritual problem that plagues humanity is egoism, or selfishness. And the laws of life are such that they are designed to propel us towards growth, evolution, progress and ultimately the transcendence of egoism and selfishness.

One consequence of being self-centered, perpetually fixated on oneself and one’s needs and desires, while being blind and oblivious to the desire for the same good for others, is that it actually repels rather than attracts good from coming to us.

We all suffer from the problem of ego, so it’s nothing personal. What we choose to do about it is what matters. By becoming attached to our faults and identifying with them, we get stuck in them and fail to transcend them. Yet by consciously acknowledging a personal defect, rather than ignoring or suppressing it, we become capable of simply letting it go. In fact, the simple act of acknowledgement and bringing to awareness already begins the process of dissociation, or detachment.

“The next time you think your perfect, try walking on water.” — Bumper Sticker

Personal Inventory. How Do You Feel?

What do you feel when you see someone who has been blessed with something you want and that you may currently lack, such as good health, abundant wealth or a joyful relationship? Are you appreciative and grateful for the good that another has been given, or do you feel jealous, envious, resentful and angry?


Did you know that feelings of jealousy, envy or bitterness will actually repel rather than attract abundance and prosperity to you? It’s true, and making a conscious choice about how you choose to feel in such a situation can make a critical difference with regards to the possibility of you ever getting what you want in your own life.

When we feel jealous or envious, we are essentially affirming scarcity, and we are saying, with our emotions, that we do not have. This energetic exclamation of lack prevents having, for if we believe that we do not have a thing, how can we ever attract it?

By being appreciative of the good that others have and that you may currently lack, you are in effect affirming prosperity and attracting abundance to yourself through a prosperity consciousness, a reality and paradigm based in Truth and reflective of true belief in the Divine, in the goodness and infinite bounty, abundance and grace of God.

Weeding out such negative thoughts and beliefs from our souls is a fundamental teaching of Sufism, the path of self-purification and the spiritual dimension of the religion of Islam. For the harm of jealousy and envy, known as hasad in Arabic, is so great that an entire chapter of the Holy Qur’an is essentially a prayer of protection from its evil.


Attract Abundance: Appreciate Others

To come into alignment with Truth and enter into harmony with Life, CONSCIOUSLY PRACTICE APPRECIATING OTHERS. When you see a good quality in another, take a brief moment to to acknowledge that good without feeling lack, without feeling jealous or envious.

As an exercise, seek evidence of what you want and what is good in others. Affirm their existence and the possibility of you coming into vibrational harmony with them by going out of your way to appreciate in others what you currently lack.

Look at those with great health, abundant resources, healthy relationships and anything that is a favor from God with gratitude and appreciation, and simply say masha’llah, God has willed such. Become self-less, and so become purified of ego.

Let feelings of love and gratitude dominate your consciousness and define your state. Soon, you will begin becoming part of the very things you appreciate and they will naturally gravitate towards you, attracting them to yourself because you are now emitting attractive positive emotions rather than repulsive negative emotions.

Our world is changing, and we have the opportunity to change for the better. There is a new possibility, a new world, coming into existence. This new earth is based in love, not hate, in cooperation and compassion, not competition, in abundance and prosperity, not lack and scarcity.

Now, more than ever, it is imperative that we address the spiritual diseases that plague our souls. There is a divine will, a divine purpose, for humanity that we become the honored and noble servants and representatives of the Almighty. And life will continuously encourage us to become more self-less, less self-centered, and ultimately learn to leave the ego behind so we can embrace our divine destiny.

Master Your Self, Master Your Life

Written by: Ihsan on March 10, 2011

Tagged as: Book of Eli Movie, Ego, Evolution, Golden Rule, Gratitude, Intention, Jesus, Kingdom of Heaven, Law of Attraction, Muhammad, New Earth, Personal Development, Prosperity, Quotes Jesus, Quotes Prophet Muhammad, Self-Purification, Selfishness, Spiritual Success, Sufism








Pat February 7, 2012 at 10:14 pm
I beleive it helps transcend the one who is appreciated as well as the other who appreciates, especially when that which is appreciated is of true virtue. I certainly appreciate the message of your article and your faith in such laws, both are an inspiration to follow.
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