1. Is it okay to have more than enough when other people are starving? The world is what it is. Whether it is realized or not, everyone is doing exactly what they have to be doing. Some people give away their money or work in soup kitchens, and other people don't. If the mind loses its dominance and we get in touch with the absolute (become one-with Tao/Source), we know exactly what to do, and we do it. Each person is manifesting what we can call "the will of God."
2. Is there any reward for helping people on the other side? No, because there is no other side. There is only THIS, and THIS is infinite. No one is born and no one dies.
3. Do enlightened people cease to exist after death? Enlightened people realize that they don't exist as separate entities. They realize that they are THIS.
4. Why did Jesus and Buddha live poor and eschew material good or money? Because they did. They had to teach and had no interest in materiality.
5. Were they trying to tell us something? Yes. They told us that materiality is not important in the big scheme of things. They told us that other people are our True Self--THIS, and if we help someone else, we are helping ourself. They told us that the most important thing we can do is finding the Absolute, discovering our unity with THAT, and becoming submissive to the will of THAT. They told us to leave selfhood behind.
6. When is enough enough? When it is.
7. What is money for? It is for paying for my McDonald's coffee that I'm sipping right now. Yum yum (smacks lips).
2. Is there any reward for helping people on the other side? No, because there is no other side. There is only THIS, and THIS is infinite. No one is born and no one dies.
3. Do enlightened people cease to exist after death? Enlightened people realize that they don't exist as separate entities. They realize that they are THIS.
4. Why did Jesus and Buddha live poor and eschew material good or money? Because they did. They had to teach and had no interest in materiality.
5. Were they trying to tell us something? Yes. They told us that materiality is not important in the big scheme of things. They told us that other people are our True Self--THIS, and if we help someone else, we are helping ourself. They told us that the most important thing we can do is finding the Absolute, discovering our unity with THAT, and becoming submissive to the will of THAT. They told us to leave selfhood behind.
6. When is enough enough? When it is.
7. What is money for? It is for paying for my McDonald's coffee that I'm sipping right now. Yum yum (smacks lips).
