Transcendent Generosity

 

To restrict generosity to what your coffers can or cannot offer, is to miss Buddha's intent, by measuring oneself against the many noble philanthropists who have given from their coffers.

That is one kind of expression of generosity.  There are others.  And each manner of generosity is but a manner - the actual practice of any or another will increase the capacity for practicing generosity - according to that manner.

Karuna:  compassion, lovingkindness, a sovereign love - these both are, and give more possibility for, more generosity.  "I'm doing" or "I'm not" or "I can't" - are all assertions of ego.

There is generosity of time, or of thought or feeling, of visualisation, of word, of action - in breadth and in depth.  This is to be meditated on.  This is what is meant.  This generosity is conscious and intelligent, genuinely free of idiot-naive generosity, free of shoulds or musts, free of  trendy "tolerance"-peddling, or of any cult of political correctness.  Real generosity is sovereign in nature, an authentic expression of one's basic sanity, of Heart-Mind.

It is found and cultivated in stillness - not the deadening of thought but its enlivening through the discipline of first studying one's own mind.  There is no judgement here, just objective observation and reflection.  Concerning generosity with material wealth, however vast and impressive or comparatively humble: motives objectively considered reveal the inherent nature behind it.  It's not that generosity is in itself "wrong" - the reference point directing it may however be decidedly conscious or unconscious.  Some acts of generosity are driven by notions of compensation, or of guilt, or of control and domination, or of recognition and reputation, or tax benefits, or of a duty.  It can generate a good feeling or feeling of goodness, of being good, doing good.  It can also generate joy, enhance lovingkindness.

To differentiate and exercise discriminating wisdom, generosity is for meditation, in this one studies one's mind and what is moving it.  Real altruism is All-True or it is nothing.

Generosity toward strangers without or at the expense of one's person, or of one's family - or in the case of a head of State: at the disastrous cost of one's people and nation - is the neurotic and irresponsible experiment of a manipulative ego with issues.

Helper-Syndrome has nothing to do with generosity, yet always uses this as a cover for this destructive behavior.  There is no self-image in real generosity, there are no deals.  So if you build a huge clinic which becomes an institution of standing, you build it.  If you give your last dollar to someone in need, you give it.  There is already a law of reciprocation, you needn't look for any.  One needn't stack "points" - generosity comes from an inner wealth, not an inner poverty.

In meditating on this one expands toward oneself, toward those near, and those loved.  This cultivates the feeling and is authentic of itself.  The expansion builds outwardly toward community, toward one's own environment of sentient Beings, toward the world as one applies visualisation. It builds inwardly toward one's own past, present, future - without harboring wishes or desires in the conventional sense, just steadily cultivating lovingkindness.  It is not to deny or dismiss or belittle emotions - anger, fear, panic, concerns, preferences - it just transcends all of these.

It is not practiced according to rules or ideologies, it is the free expression and demonstration of following one's true nature.  The most generous thing one can do is to embrace and practice this, and transmit it by example to those hungering for a taste of benevolent reality.

 

Wrathful Love

When I am freed of "my" love,

then can God's love come through me

and greet and behold you.

When I am freed of "my" wrath,

then can God's wrath make itself known within me,

and reveal where it will strike and when.

The dark forces at work in our time,

yes here and now,

the destructive and the cruel,

the narcoleptic and appeasing;

ideologies of the Left or of the Right;

networks of satanic cults whose active existence

no rational person dares take seriously, and will not act;

the vast sway of pedophilia, and of gender-mainstreaming,

of manipulated indoctrination and Islamisation;

the twisting of words and their meaning,

defamation of character and the unbridled preference

for perpetrators as "victims" – ignorance of the day

brings on the darkness of night, and it will get darker.

The sun of my inner character is greater than I,

it is fed on the divine beauty,

and will inform me when the time comes:

to step aside and stand firm – and let God act.

I am but a witness of the time, and time when it comes.

His love holds all the power I need.

When I am freed of "my" love,

then can God's love come through me

and greet and behold you.

A Critical Look (if one still may) at “LGBT“ as a Lobby & Movement

Speaking as one who has since the early '70s been awake to the dream of, desire to see, the civil and human rights of homosexuals, male or female, manifestly recognized and implemented once and for all – and an end to their ages old persecution; speaking as one who abhors the continuing status quo of persecution, torture and public execution of gays in any or all Muslim countries; and speaking as one who feels we've not only long achieved our ends in this matter in the West – in fact, that we have moreover over-achieved in the direction of an ideological extreme, I wish to address what I sadly and critically observe, with the hope that the following cogent points might somewhere strike a chord at this critical juncture.

As often happens:  an old conditioned conformity winds up being replaced, not by the freedom to think clearly - but by a new conformity-by-coercion, holding us un-conscious and captive.  This produces no gender-clarity but more confusion, pseudo-scientific in some  of its more militant claims and contemptuous in its demands for over-relativized, highly generalized "gender-mainstreaming" - a new catchword for the sheer superficiality of our time.  As with the increasingly questionable manipulation of "multi-culti" - and the agenda hiding behind it, to so much as question what is going on is to have oneself re-defined by its propaganda: as racist, or reactionary, or right-extreme, as the case may be.

John G. Bennett, in his Third Way School (as I recall – but google him), had quoted Gurdjieff in addressing homosexuals and their capacity for development in the Inner Work. This inner work comprised – and frankly would comprise in any School which ever has existed or does, for inner development of the Human Being – three aspects, namely: the exoteric, or outer; the mesoteric, or middle; and the esoteric, or inner. This having nothing to do with getting "elite" or "important" about anything, but about actual development, no one – and I repeat, no one – was or is saying that homosexuals do not or cannot develop in a spiritual training. Having said that, what Gurdjieff, according to Bennett, did address, was that while homosexuals would naturally advance like anyone else with right effort and intention, in the outer and the middle aspects, there were two things which alone hindered, if not prevented, them from attaining to the inner.

Minus these two things, there would be nothing barring the homosexual from advancing, so it has nothing to do with judgement but very astute observation: those two being 1) the sense of shame they carry, which of course one does after countless generations of being shamed for what one is – but it's an obstacle to development, a no-brainer; and 2) their sense of specialness.

Now this is interesting, I was struck by reading this some 35 years ago, struck and fascinated, and confronted and challenged to really look at that. The observation rang true as I'd always tried to plumb, as a heterosexual male, the personal-societal hitch in the psychological make-up of my gay brothers and sisters.

Folks, we have achieved the half: we have removed the first of the two, there is no more shame; but the second has still to be dealt with, and there lies the phenomenn I see all around me today.

We keep taking a good and noble idea and destroying it through the parody of ideology! We can no longer be fair without getting stupid, we can no longer be constructively critical without being called nazis or fascists or negativists of some sort or another!

Friends!  When Political Correctness supercedes any right to the expression of critical thinking, and "tolerance" is the new coin for coerced acceptance, and to question a lobbied direction is to be branded without consideration as "discrimination" - what then becomes of Discriminating Wisdom?  For example, racism is one thing - while lobbying for all races and skin colors to be null and become one race and one color is as abhorrent as it is absurd - I like all the races and skin tones and I am for mutual respectful appreciation of differences.  I want all the nations and cultures to remain nations and cultures, and to develop naturally and progressively, I don't want a One World Government!  The EU and NATO strive toward exactly this, and are getting it.

I frankly still embody the coming together of the most varied of religions to have them meet, listen, share, mutually appreciate and come away with something new and fresh - and I want my Catholics to be Catholics, Protestants Protestant, Buddhists to stay Buddhist, Jews Jews, Hindus Hindus - etc.!  Sexism can be confronted without killing the erotic in ourselves through PC - or take abortion:  as a liberal-thinking member of our culture, I'm not "for-abortions" as the oxymornic "pro-lifers" would call this, I am pro-choice, and therewith equally dismayed at the coerced abortions of China or like attitudes elsewhere, as in former East Germany.  Returning to LGBT as a lobby, by becoming ideologized and rigidly overweening, the issues have become the new coin of "where you stand on..." - and woe unto you as parents if you do not want your child sexualized with propaganda at an early grade school age, making homosexuality such an issue over and above your right to guide your child according to your timing, to your lights, and to your discriminating wisdom.  Or have we no more self-respect before every movement and every lobby which dictates how you orient ...!

I was also, since those early '70s, for the right to gender change of someone who with good reason could never relate to the gender he/she was born into, because I stand for the right of individuals to have access to lives full of grace and good-will, freedom and fulfillment, dignity and development, and the pursuit of happiness. The cult and culture of Political Correctness and mindless Relativism is not about that and never was. It is about the same ol' same ol' of power and domination, regardless of who's calling which shots. The relativism of being Politically Correct does not make something right.

Introducing sex-ed into early grade shool, even kindergarten, as is occurring today – at least in the EU-Regime's New Europe, and Canada, if not also the U.S. - and teaching, not merely acceptance toward (as if this also belongs to this age-group!) the new sacred-acronym, LGBT, but preference of and deference toward – mixing everything mindlessly up so that no discriminating power of the intellect may exist and everything becomes a gray sort of-kind of mentality with no compass, no reference point or orientation available or allowed to any individual's own moral perception – is not nor ever was my idea of a better future.

But that is the future we are having dictated to us, as lobbying ideologies only can do: dictate. It's the way of the world, as usual: power, control, domination.

This is not Love.