Redefine your wealth
1) Expose the world-crippling financial system. Here is Zeitgeist Addendum, a film that bravely lays out in detail the system that’s no longer serving us, and an emerging transformation of consciousness. Challenging to watch, but a joy to share in a new vision: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912#
2) Remove any support of entities you don’t agree with: the major banks (Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America), the military, and major corporations. Shift your resources to ethical, local, & sustainable efforts that give back. This leads to actual profit for the whole.
3) Find new ways to share with others freely, through open systems like http://www.couchsurfing.org/ or through your daily actions. A new level of wealth comes in giving. In giving, we build and enable a new web of conscious interconnectedness into our lives.
4) Redefine profit, success, and wealth.
You know, the rich and famous are still hungry for love.
Redefinition of success: It is service. It is being connected to ourselves fully. It is impersonal and personal love.
We are all cells in a giant body. The happiest cells in the body are the ones playing their active role for the well-being of the whole. The cells with the most resources are the ones that are constantly sharing those resources elsewhere. In giving, there is receiving.
A tumor closes its walls, defending and hording for itself. Cancer is uncontrolled growth. Cancer is invasion and destruction of other tissues.
Amma is one in many prominent examples of a human “cell” who has opened the floodgates to giving freely – and focusing on love (which is the energy of connection): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lwTAYeyv9U
We are all interconnected ~ Realizing this is committing to open our love for the well-being of all. It is committing to our inner calling to be ourselves. It is committing to no longer violate our core. It is committing to own our intelligence, and our ability to discover our purpose in each moment. Our nature is oneness, an expansive liberated love. At each moment, we can let go of everything that isn’t that.
When we come into alignment with ourselves and loving service to the world, we begin to know that this is our true wealth, profit, success, and comfort.
with love,
R
Free our land
A message to U.S. citizens, businesses, and government,
Martin Luther King Day, Contemplation on core values for this physical world:
Acquire few needs.
Realize how little one needs to live a full and comfortable life. Of our few needs, the greatest need of all is the need to give. If we aren’t giving fully, then many other false needs rise up and plague our thoughts. Giving fulfills the cycle of life.
Cultivate peace, internal and external. Look for, notice, and relax any fear & negativity. Encourage all people to achieve internal peace as a path to world peace.
Let’s resolve to end war. It is aggression towards ourselves. As we do to others, it will be done to us. We all have the choice of non-violence resistance as a means of taking a firm stand. To end war on a global scale, a starting point is here and now: let’s all end aggression in our own lives. With such short lives, there is little time to waste on any form of aggression.
Take the non-violence vow in thought, word, and deed: http://www.itakethevow.com
Take a stance in this world. “Please use your freedom to promote ours.”- imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi.
Living in this troubled world, our heart begs us to stand up courageously for life, for others. Out of fear, many of us stay seated and watch. Don’t question or hesitate. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I ask our Congress to take a stand. Iraq is an illegal war started on false premises. It is unjustifiable. Publicly acknowledge this and hold accountable the politicians who manipulated and abused their duties to get us there.
As a country, let’s stop greedily pursuing other countries’ resources. Let’s refuse to profit at the expense of others. As U.S. citizens, we share an imperialist history of religious, monetary, and racial conquest and colonization. Broken bonds and broken trust. Let’s heal the connection with our human family. Help integrate our history with the Native Americans: http://www.nativeres.org/
Cultivate loving compassion. Compassion allows us to love authentically. Feel the world through another’s eyes, culture, and beliefs. Their suffering is our suffering. Their joy is our joy. On so many levels, we are all inextricably linked.
Pledge allegiance to the earth and all its creatures.
This planet is not ours to do with as we please. We cannot own it. We cannot own any of the plants and animals on it. The notion of ownership is best abandoned for stewardship. We are stewards of the land, and we share this home with myriad other plants and earthlings who all have their place. It is our responsibility to live and act harmoniously for the benefit of all.
Let’s realize that other animals deserve their own rights, habitat, and a respected place in our law and doctrine. Their free will is something we can learn from. Their lives are not delivered for our idle consumption. In all our efforts, harmony with the earth and fellow earthlings will determine our continued success. Our joy in this physical world is one of communion with nature, finding our harmonious place in the great web of life. The waves of isolation, fear, and alienation that plague the modern mind are linked to our disconnection and abuse of the natural world.
Redefine wealth & success. “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
Even the rich are hungry for love. Success is always just around the corner. A life of connected service for others is the luxurious lifestyle we seek. The deep impenetrable comfort we imagine is found in being of highest use. Let’s work towards respectable working conditions and living conditions for all people around the world. Our wealth cannot be their poverty. Let’s remove support of multinational resource-consuming corporations and their products. Let’s shift our investments and resources to sustainability, local community, and ethical businesses. Watch this video on the first ethical bank in the UK: http://vimeo.com/4075390
Let’s connect. Realize our community, human and beyond. Despite differences, beyond differences, we all share this life together.
Seek your source, because every sense of knowing the world is only temporary. Eventually, our world crumbles in the hands of mystery. The journey home is the greatest journey.
