Tuesday 17 September 2013

To Change the World, Begin with the Self, First.


All the emphasis is concentrated on changing the world and very little emphasis on waking up, Awareness. When you wake up you will know what to do and what not to do. Many people swing into action only to make things worse. They are not coming from love, they're coming from negative feelings. Guilt, anger, hate a sense of injustice or whatever. You've got to make sure of your being before you swing into action. Make sure of who you are before you act otherwise you substitute one injustice for another. (Clean the cup on the inside first) Meister Eckhart says: 'It is not by your actions you will  be saved, but by your being. It is not by what you do, but by what you are that you will be judged'. What good is it for you to feed the hungry, give the thirsty a drink, clothe the naked or visit the prisoner in jail? - 'even the gentiles (pagans) do that'.

Remember that sentence from Paul: If I give my body to be burned and all my good to feed the poor and have not love... Its not your works(actions), its your being that counts. Then you might or might not swing into action, you cant decide until you're awake, aware. When you are, like Jesus you will say something like: I was'nt sent to those people, I limit myself to what I'm supposed to do right now. Later maybe. 

Imagine you are unwell and in a foul mood, and they're taking you through some lovely countryside. Beautiful landscape, but you're in no mood to see anything. A few days later you pass the same place and you say, "Good heavens, where was I that I did'nt notice all of this?" Everything becomes beautiful when you change. Or you look at the mountains and the trees through windows that are wet with rain from a storm, and everything looks blurred and shapeless. You want to go right out there and change those trees, change those mountains. Wait a minute, lets examine your window. When the storm ceases and the rain stops, and you look out the window, you say, "How different everything looks". That is why when two people look at something or someone, you get two different reactions. We see people and things not as they are, but as we are. 

In another place scripture speaks about everything turning to the good of those who love God? When you change and are awake, you dont try to make good things happen, they just happen! You understand suddenly that everything that happens to you is good. Think of people you are associated with, you find them moody, inconsiderate, treacherous, when you are different, they'll be dfferent.
People are so busy accusing, blaming, everyone, everything, life , society, neighbor, we'll never change that way.

Put this into action a thousand times: a) Identify the negative feelings in you. b)Understand that they are in you, not in the external world, not in reality. c) Do not see them a an essential part of 'I', these things come and go. d) Understand that when you change everything changes!.

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