Trickle up economics shares true value

I do not hold with the 'trickle down' theory of economics - but I have a sense of the trickle up of new growth. If you are able to hear something that truly connects you within your own being - then that is your responsibility - not mine. As you take up your responsibility you also will propagate or communicate something of an integrated presence instead of fuelling perpetual conflict in packages not unlike the craftily concealed toxic debt of high flying financiers. The ignorant are simply those who have not yet opened to the modelling of an integrated consciousness. The guilt hate and fear that recycles through the generations is nurture that has become as if our second nature - and defended as if it is the only way to be - as if it is reality - period!

I cannot make anyone else's choice for them, but I can relate to them as fully worthy and capable of such choices as set them free from self-negative loops of thought and result rather than make them the footstools of my derision. Everything we think communicates at some level and all that goes around , comes around and around and around.

The Golden Rule is no less Golden than it ever was. "Give as you would receive". I would add that to be clear it might say "Give as you would in love receive' - because the self-hating and self judging do not believe they are worthy of love and that they would spoil it or betray it if it came to them - and so they DO give as they would receive - but from a false foundation.

The Rule works regardless of what is given. The 'Golden' Rule is to give true value.

How does that translate to a battle field or civil strife? "Give unto Caesar what is due unto Caesar and give unto God what is due unto God". Do what you believe you have to do while you have to do it - but give your full-hearted allegiance and alignment only to what you truly value. The word true comes up a lot simply because words can be used as an actor's persona - as part of a shield or a weapon in a game of powers.

The game of powers is 'Caesar's'. If you have a wish to be a power in and of yourself - special and above others, then you play out the war on Life as if it could be won. If you recognize this and also that it is not your heart's desire then you are already in a position to choose differently.

What I am describing occurs without intellectual oversight - for our innate wisdom can use and utilise EVERY channel of possible communication - as we are willing to listen and align.

If an appetite for war demands to wash itself in blood and fire, it will - but in truth it is an attempt to kill one's own shadow seen on the 'Other'. There is no 'talking' to the self-righteous - for they are not only sure they are right but feel morally justified in hate and sanctified by fighting. There may be a case to stand firm in one's convictions and refuse the bully. I am not advocating passivism. A true peace is part and parcel of a true communication. Any one in relationship could know that if they gave the matter a little attention.

Short attention span is a defence against both information overload and coercive impositions. First establish a line of actual communication, then work to grow a mutual trust in any way of any kind so as to begin to calm the mind. A calmer mind connects with a rising of a greater perspective in which creative and mutually beneficial possibilities can be seen - perhaps one step at a time.

Be aware that the 'enemy' of such a process will do all in its power to subvert or undermine it and restore the mind to operate within a dictate of divide and rule.

Who or what is the enemy of peace but the holding precious of an identity that loves to hate and hates to love. "Better the devil you know" - they say. I say if you really knew - you would drop such thinking like a hot coal instead of holding it close to heart.

When I say 'you' I am not meaning you particularly - but as a figure of speech. Where there is hate there is hurt. Hate the hate or heal the hurt. It's a choice. One seems easy and even 'natural' the other seems hard or meaningless. Heal the hurt. This is no arduous path so much as a simple invitation to choose for love's awareness… now. There IS no other time in which choice can be embodied. You wont lose your 'Now' but unless you are willing to calm down a bit and let it in, you will lose sight of it - and any avenue of healing that comes through being truly present.

Cease watering the tree of guilt, hate and fear with your thoughts, your attention and your focus! As you allow your connection with your true Sanity - focus there and abide in willingness there. You don't need clever thinking to feel the currents and choose what to do or leave undone. To 'get real' and pay attention will follow the choice you have made as to your true desire. Everything can be seen in many perspectives. Why be locked into one joyless way of seeing? 

replying to:
Very well said! Now, if only that elaborate reasoning could be packaged in a one-line slogan comprehensible to the ignorant masses with short attention span!

(which was in reference to this post on the situation in Ukraine)

Being offended and taking offence

The law is not a tool to make reality - even the law of the sword. But if we use it for such then we will suffer the law of the sword.

In my own terms - my human identity is a personal and cultural structure through which I have experience. Such experience is 'created' or rather interpreted through the filters and distortions of my identity. If this identity is running as if it were in fact true - then I will war or compete with others in order to prevail, get even or protect my 'self'. This brings suffering - even if the call to war is seductively right or hopeful.

But there is a greater, deeper or more direct appreciation of identity than any derivative form of self image or self concept.
One way to access this is to notice when I take offence, pause from legitimizing reaction of my own thinking - and enquire directly and honestly into my own part in the disturbance. Why am I not at peace?
What is in my mind that agitates me? A willingness to learn of what are the triggers to war in my own mind will reveal a mind of judgement and blame. In the past this has been called the devil - for it is a deception wherein one's own shadow is denied and put upon the 'other' - where it can be hated, denied or used for selfish ends and yet be seen as if one were righteous or protective or helpful.

Whatever the human culture, there are fundamental laws and responsibilities of mind that cannot be escaped. The attempt to escape them brings suffering because it becomes an attempt to fight or defend against Life, The Nature or Reality, God, Truth, or the Way Things Work.

Freedom to express is active within relationship - not in a vacuum in which some right is enshrined to any individual. That we can think and act as if we are independent from our relational being is an unconsciousness or ignorance. Stumbling in the dark, following the blind, brings suffering.

Our shadow, is those aspects or our own self judgement - that we have denied and become fearful of. To reclaim a true wholeness of being we must become more honest than our minds or society are perhaps accustomed. In the west, we tend to worship our conceptual constructs as if they were Fact rather than story or interpretation. Our minds are thus not only closed in judgement - but deny us the sensitivity of a direct participation in Creation - in the relational field of Being.

Conflicts serve a purpose of bringing attention to what needs to be brought into awareness. If we allow the denied mind to be known and released of the need of hiding and defence - then the conflict is no longer serving purpose and will not find soil in which to grow.

In all situations, there is a way of communicating without judgement - because there is a way of expressing one's own true feeling being - TO another in a relational honesty. Learning such ways of communicating are part and parcel of learning more deeply and directly of one's own heart and mind.

The temptation to conflict is as deceptive as is the temptation to avoid or deny it. The 'self' acting outside a true relational awareness brings suffering. It can also justify and 'legitimise' suffering and declare it natural, inevitable or 'the human condition' or God's Will. But suffering has our participation although we are generally culturally fitted to agree to hide this active element.

Trouble abroad serves to distract from trouble at home. See how the mind works and become free of a self illusion that brought suffering.

If we find how we become deceived by our own certainties - then we have a basis for a compassionate approach to others who are just like us.

Trying to make a mind of rules cannot substitute for a real relationship.

Life doesn't abide by our rules and if anything our rules deprive us of life. But law in its true sense is not wishful - but demonstrable. All of us will in time come to teach and learn so as to align with law because we will lose our capacity to 'enjoy' or abide in suffering. Perhaps this will be on our deathbed - but perhaps such a 'now' is whenever we are willing to truly listen or discern in place of 'expressing a freedom of thought against the grain of the guidance of our heart'.

Of course we do not enjoy being intimidated or inhibited by force or threat of violence, but are we already active as such to others?

The Golden Rule is not wishful thinking - but speaks of an innate law of action and reaction at the most fundamental level of our mind.
The desire to hate, kill or deny those who do what you hate in yourself is a perversion of the Golden Rule. But seeing this IS the opportunity of salvation or awakening from a hidden, fearful deceptive identity.

Thankyou for your attention