Realism
Mon Aug 8, 2005 12:31 pm
Johan writes:
Speaking: spiritually seen it is not even our very goal to come to
humanitarian help and charity for humankind, for this would mean investing
our energy in the polarities of this world, and thus it would compromise our
own spiritual goal to let go and to let God.
Here is what it sounds like is the essence of your philosophy:
The world has gone to hell in a hand basket and is in a deep matrix of
illusion, trapped in duality, controlled by the Beast to the extent
that the only thing to do is to have nothing to do with it, throw
your hands up, give up, and not even help others in a "humanitarian"
way. What is there to do then? Either kill yourself or go to a
mountaintop and OMMM all day and maybe starve to death in the process.
Johan:
The greatest changes in the world have been won by those who were NOT
So-called realistic. They were inherent revolutionaries. Someone who is
spiritual in fact is a born revolutionary. He sees that this world is NOT
our world and man must change not only his view but must also learn the
Truth. And when he Knows the Truth and thus Lives the Truth, he will come
back to share the Truth. This is what all the great Avatars, Masters and
great spiritual guides did. Nobody was talking about maintaining this world
and talking to be realistic.
I think you have it backwards. Those who revolutionize the world in
a good way, and are the teachers of the race and are the realistic ones.
Who was realistic? Those who taught the world was flat or those who
saw it as a globe?
Columbus and Copernicus thought the world was round because they
faced the realism of true facts and principles.
Who was realistic? Abraham Lincoln who saw slavery as an evil or the
masters in the South who thought their own freedom was dependent on
the slavery of another.
Who was realistic?
The Founding Fathers of the U.S. who thought that they could obtain
greater happiness and prosperity in freedom or King George who
thought they would do better being controlled by the mother country?
Realism brings the seeker closer to the truth and spirit, not the
other way around. The trouble is that those in illusion think they
are being realistic when they are merely being opinionated. The true
realist looks beyond his bias.
Johan:
But as long as the corporations are fed and dominated by
money and economic laws, and profit is the main goal, all good humanitarian
intentions will be compromised heavily. That's why indeed there still is a
high unbalance in food in the world, despite the high wealth in the western
world and despite the fact that there is enough for all species of humanity.
Look at three countries. The United States, Cuba and North Korea.
The United States is dominated by the profit motive and Cuba and
North Korea say they are not.
Which one has the greater number of poor?
The poorest in the United States would be considered rich in North
Korea where the average citizen is now living on tree bark.
In fact without the help of capitalistic U.S. dollars sent to Cuba by
friends they would be living on tree bark there rather than a
luxurious bowl of crumbs each day.
Anyone who succeeds and does any good in the world has a profit
motive of some kind, even the Brotherhood of Light, even God.
Do you think God made this world with no profit in mind?
Of course not. He made it with the idea that He was going to get a
benefit from it and its inhabitants.
The Brotherhood of Light serve with the idea that humanity will
profit and in turn they will profit by being lifted up higher by
those greater than themselves.
Is it evil to have money as a motive? To answer this we must ask
what money is.
A unit of money represents a unit of labor or service. To say money
is evil is to say the service of laboring for others is evil.
Both labor and money are only evil if they are directed toward a
destructive end. Otherwise they are good and constructive.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
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