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Maitreya, a spiritual teacher of extraordinary love, wisdom and intelligence based in London, discusses the need for the sharing of the food and resources of the world.  He says, "Firstly, men must see themselves as brothers, sons of the One Father.  This is essential if they would progress one step nearer the Godhead.  Throughout the world there are men, women and little children who have not even the essentials to stay alive; they crowd the cities of many of the poorest countries in the world.  This crime fills Me with shame.  My brothers, how can you watch these people die before your eyes and call yourselves men?  My plan is to save these, My little ones, from certain starvation and needless death.  My plan is to show you that the way out of your problems is to listen again to the true voice of God within your hearts, to share the produce of this most bountiful of worlds among your brothers and sisters everywhere..."  -- Messages from Maitreya the Christ, www.share-international.org

 It takes awareness to recognize the seeds we are planting.  We’re destroying the planet, but it’s as if we don’t see that.  We’re absorbed in the competition of the game.  If you’re intently playing a game, one you’re determined to win, you’re not also gazing at the night sky and looking at the stars.  You’d lose the concentration you need, and then your competitors gain the edge.  You can’t be both attached to material status, comfort and success and also at the same time spiritually aware.  And a society dedicated to materialism is the enemy not just of a seventh generation, which may not ever come to be in a mad and nuclear-armed world.  Our planet is dying, our civilization dead, our brothers and sisters starve, and we are doomed - doomed that is, without awareness.  Awareness is the fruit born from the seed of detachment.  You become aware when you realize your ego's desire for excess is the death warrant of others. That the seed of greed produces a harvest of war, starvation, misery and want in a world of plenty - populated by children of the one God.  Gandhi said, "Live simply so that others may simply live." That is awareness.  And it is our only hope.

"If we did not feel that some ultimate kindness holds sway, we would feel like outsiders confronted on every side by a world toward which we could make no real bridges," wrote the author at the end of the first paragraph. Most people, however, have ample reason in their experience to give them doubt about the kindness inherent in the world.  When your life experience suggests to your ego that kindness does not hold sway, what do you do?  I think that fundamentally, the answer humans have had is attachment, in different forms - material, emotional, mental. These attachments give us the experience of a bridge between us and what we are attached to.  Ultimately, we are pushed by life to let go of these attachments, and when we do, we can feel an existential loneliness.  This is a good thing, because we are close then, it is said, to experiencing the Self, which can only be experienced when we are not actively attached.  But when we sense that loneliness is threatening us (that is, threatening our attachments - it certainly cannot threaten the Self!), we often make or reinforce those illusory bridges.  To the extent we can not depend on those bridges, is the extent to which we can realize that the nature of our world, as the author says, is truly kindness.  We experience, in essence as the author assures us, that we are all connected by bridges of kinship as brothers and sisters, children of God, our "hearts imbued with longing for beauty, meaning, order, creativity, compassion, and love" as he says, seeking to make those 'kinship bridges' tangibly real in the world.  Now if I could only see this as I look across my interpersonal landscape through a glass darkly, my regrettable conditioning - so much of it unconscious, ingrained from a karmic childhood of misfortune - seeking refuge in the safety of bridges not between my Self and your Self, but between my desire and my object of desire, that is, in attachment.  I need some ... [View Full Comment]

"If we did not feel that some ultimate kindness holds sway, we would feel like outsiders confronted on every side by a world toward which we could make no real bridges," wrote the author at the end of the first paragraph. Most people, however, have ample reason in their experience to give them doubt about the kindness inherent in the world.  When your life experience suggests to your ego that kindness does not hold sway, what do you do?  I think that fundamentally, the answer humans have had is attachment, in different forms - material, emotional, mental. These attachments give us the experience of a bridge between us and what we are attached to.  Ultimately, we are pushed by life to let go of these attachments, and when we do, we can feel an existential loneliness.  This is a good thing, because we are close then, it is said, to experiencing the Self, which can only be experienced when we are not actively attached.  But when we sense that loneliness is threatening us (that is, threatening our attachments - it certainly cannot threaten the Self!), we often make or reinforce those illusory bridges.  To the extent we can not depend on those bridges, is the extent to which we can realize that the nature of our world, as the author says, is truly kindness.  We experience, in essence as the author assures us, that we are all connected by bridges of kinship as brothers and sisters, children of God, our "hearts imbued with longing for beauty, meaning, order, creativity, compassion, and love" as he says, seeking to make those 'kinship bridges' tangibly real in the world.  Now if I could only see this as I look across my interpersonal landscape through a glass darkly, my regrettable conditioning - so much of it unconscious, ingrained from a karmic childhood of misfortune - seeking refuge in the safety of bridges not between my Self and your Self, but between my desire and my object of desire, that is, in attachment.  I need some awakin-ing, my friends.

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