| THE IMPORTANCE OF WEALTH |
We also know that lust and greed for possessions have motivated man to allow himself to be in such places where extreme pressure,heat,cold and lack of these comforts were secondary to that desire for possession and gain of perceived wealth.
Sometimes, under self driven circumstances, some men have required a minimum amount of food to subsist, living on a minimal level of life maintenance while the passionate search for wealth goes on and seems to require this sacrifice for perceived success.
Limbs have been lost, pieces of bodies gone. The gain may or may have not been enough compensation for the effort put out. But in these searches, for what as been lost, there has been insubstantial and substantial replacement of material sacrifice and relative loss i.e.companions, family members, loved ones, love -loss.
There has been focus on the gain until sometimes nothing remains of what came before in that wealth questers life.( Just take an invertebrate gambler for example.)
Was it worth it? Some have said, "Yes" and some have said,"no",and some have remained on the quest and found that the search itself was more exciting , more valuable than climatizing by acquisition (which then is possibly anti-climatic itself).
Of course,in searches for lost treasures, gold in chests..there have been shouts of excitement and exhilaration, exaltation. There have been personal fortunes made and contribution to museums and therefore to societies knowledge and ability to visit history . Even perhaps, to learn something from the lesson of the situation, the experiences of many years ago which in many cases caused the circumstances that stimulated the quest and the enthusing experiences. The search and the find. The search, the miss...and the mistake. The misplaced notion that the manifested thing is what one searches for!
Is there a HOLY GRAIL? Or is it within and we do not recognize it so we search without endlessly until we eventually are able to cipher the clues to finding our SELF?s
Acknowledgement, recognition, realization, affirmation of that which is in "within" each and every person. All persons.
What is wealth?
We can enjoy good living, rich living, primitive living, any kind of living that makes us happy; that is part of our life style; that is meaningful to us. If in the course of fulfilling what is meaningful to us, and this includes a PURPOSE in our way of life, something that has the greatest meaning that we are able to comprehend reveals itself to us, that is what we should go for. Never too big an idea. It is do able.
Take that idea as a moment towards becoming the most comprehensive, all encompassing, wise person that one is able to be. Think in terms of greatness. Think about becoming a PERSONA who can represent,in his purpose, what he deems THE GREATEST GOOD FOR MANKIND.
The purpose should be transcendental,transmutational. Great enough to move earthbound MAN into transcendental MAN. This MAN becoming a most wise, right bound, understanding, aware person awakening to the realization of the TRUE IDENTITY he seeks to grow large enough to represent, speak for and be!
Symbolism: ADAM AS MANKIND
YOU AS ADAM
ALL OF US AS YOU
AS I AM
And when we purpose toward becoming representative of all mankind and one thinks of oneself as ADAM
- MAN as ADAM -
PROCESS as the responsible BEING who can bring mankind up in consciousness, in Wisdom, in understanding WHY THEY WERE CREATED; WHO THEY ARE; and WHERE THEY PURPOSE TOWARD-
then we have taken giant steps toward "getting there".
Can you envision a Being who is very CAUSAL of his own life, circumstances, and environment? Pretty big stuff but not a "goal". A purpose is a dynamic process. A goal is limited and finite. Once you accomplish it, you have ended. Infinity, Eternity, Forever is endless and so it can go beyond our finding out that we are this great, comprehensive, causal Being launched into a greater unity of Self that goes past time and space, and past the need for causality! It goes into a Unity that is so complete, although not limited and not formed, that there is no need for causality because whatever there is - YOU ARE IT. YOU ARE. YOU ARE BEING IT.IT'S WITHIN AND ABOVE THAT SPOT YOU CAME FROM WHERE THERE WAS A NEED FOR TIME/SPACE/CAUSALITY.
SO WHAT IS WEALTH?
If you had billions of material things that have since the beginning of mans history been deemed "valuable" and "wealth", and you realized that this was an illusion and the illusion was very real as long as you lived in it, but even then, the illusion of that wealth was temporary, borrowed (on loan within an illusion) and followed eventually by mortal death which you believe in also within that illusion. When one believes fervently, certainly it will happen. Certainly,there is NO-THING-ELSE.
If you were able to see this in a new perspective of having the choice of transcending this illusion, would you opt for this choice? How does ETERNAL, IMMORTAL, ENDLESS, INFINITE RESOURCE, CORE OF EXISTENCE, CORE OF BEINGNESS, ALL FORCE, ALL KNOWING, and the ability to be EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE strike you as a choice? Nothing "else", nothing outside of yourself, nothing you need, nothing you want but available to you. Total comprehensiveness, completeness without limitation, without bond, boundaries, without any rules or regulations but with perfect natural order, without any others to put this in effect.
I am talking about a BEING without the limitation of time/space/causality, competition, war, laws, others.I am proposing a BEING who has everything, always, everywhere and all at once.
If therewas every WEALTH that ever was in so-called time or place or cause. If there was available for this BEING every wealth of force, power, status, energy, material things, rings, diamonds, jewels, beautiful women/men, sexuality, beauty, art, endless vistas..name it on any level of consciousness, existence or mind and know that YOU are in that mind. And know that YOU can become larger. That the WEALTH is finding WHO YOU ARE and WHO YOU ARE BECOMING. Then, becoming that BEING as you are able in a continuing process of transcendence. In a continuing process of increasing wealth beyond mans dreams. All this, while giving up old preset and rigid conception of what wealth is (including some just before mentioned to make a point). When we change ourselves, our perceptions we may enter into REALMS PAST THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM.
ENTERING INTO REALMS OF ESSENTIAL BEINGNESS SUBLIMING INTO A STATE OF IMMORTAL DIVINITY
That is not the Divinity of the smaller myth of the smaller lexicon of stories that man has told in symbols made to awaken consciousness,to yeast sub-conscious mind. That was one seed,one of many tangents possible, to bringsome along the way toward this ENTRANCE now talked about. I am speaking beyond these myths. I am speaking beyond your ability to conceive.I am speaking of a wealth that is Eternal and so VAST... it has no measurement.
THE WEALTH OF BEING YOUR SELF THE WEALTH OF BEING... I AM of becoming that greatest HOST BEYOND HOSTS.. BEYOND MANS ABILITY TO CONCEPTUALIZE. Visualize into the mind. Whirl it about. Here there is no need to shout, to verbalize, to even sing or fly ( although we know how exciting that can be). There is no need to die as we have habitually thought about it.
This is a process, an IDENTITY that becomes increasingly larger to one that is Great and Unified. This person who has developed such an IDENTITY becomes completely responsible for Self and realizes that there is no separation; ever was a separation; and only illusion, misperception, ignorance has existed from the beginning of time to this moment of now, called REVELATION. There has been a veil of ignorance standing between man and the TRUTH. A veil through which an aspiring soul must awaken to and realized, transcend.
WHAT IS RIGHT AND TRUE? WHAT IS TRUE PRINCIPLE ? HOW DOES THE UNIVERSE WORK?
"First I must discover these answers through meditation, then I must live them." In the twinkling of an eye (although it might seem longer at times), you find that you have transcended an impossibility, an old unfounded fear, won an impossible dream, and organized your life in effortless fun.
You become a receptive Being to a Higher Will, a higher Mind which is your Self on a Higher Plane of consciousness. Eventually You/It all come together. This is called unification.
In the beginning things were simple. Then as "history" progressed it became more complex. Although, if you analyze carefully, history does repeat itself in patterns of human behavior. We search for a return to simplicity. Have we learned from our mistakes? All these people, places, times, situations- all the curving of the minds of men and the convolutions of circumstances evolving from their actions - comes eventually to one place. It's a theory of Unity. How wealthy are you when you are ALL AND EVERYTHING and within You INCLUSIVE is all existence, all value?
You are in a state of equilibration. The so-called Light and the Dark side of life is reconciled and in blended balance within you. There is nothing static about this. That is why the word "equilibration" is used. A constant delicate balancing, both fast and dynamic, takes place continuously. Beingness is not chained or boring. There is a Knowing. Knowledge of all is within. Wisdom lives within also. It's all YOU, but you as you are in this state of BEINGNESS is not who you were before when you began in a state of sociable personality. YOU gave that up for something "much more". No loss, great gain. Eternity gained! TRUE WEALTH....YOU LIVING ON/AS TRUTH.
For True wealth is not something you can hold in your hand. Material wealth may have it's purpose along the way. You may have enjoyed it from day to day...but when you pass that, you don't need it or consider it as a loss. You become a different person than you ever were before. This person has great wealth, great power and is of true value, ascending constantly, trending toward UNIFICATION OF A HIGHER NATURE where man made measurements will not be desirable or necessary.
So material wealth is ILLUSIONARY and power is illusionary,unless THE FORCE works through you as a receptive vehicle for THE PRIMAL WILL TO GOOD...until you become that Force as the HIGHEST IDENTITY that processing can bring you to.
It takes a while. It is a process which has it's own time table. It takes election. It takes strength and courage. It takes endurance. It takes a constantly changing perspective along with striving steps into the unknown, the impossible, your life memory record, and fears. This done through entrance into a balanced state to meditate the meanings of all these "lessons" and the direction they take you in.
You come to a point where you realize your true identity, what true wealth is, and how to affirm your purpose in life and "go for it". In this process you must go right through doubts, anxieties and distress recognizing that they are a form of testing. Change your view, and this changes you, your circumstances and body of experiences.
Learn to say, "I CAN."Become much more than you ever were before.
Become the HOST WITH THE MOST. TRUE VALUE ITSELF. IT'S YOU!
ALL IS WITHIN. ALL POWER, ALL FORCE, ENERGY, LOVE,BLESSING, GRACE, BEAUTY..ANYTHING. YOU NAME IT ...IT'S YOURS, IT'S YOU.
True Wealth* Barbara Beck Goodman Copyright 1996
