Have a Billionaire Heart

[Joseph Bernard]

Have a Billionaire Heart I read an article in the paper on Sunday that I keep thinking about. The article was about billionaires and how most of them give very little away. I thought what a loss of opportunity for opening the heart. Giving feels good; giving opens the heart. So then I thought - how come? Could it be fear, a sense of lack or scarcity in some way, a disconnection from the heart, an intention to not see the need in the world, or maybe insulation from the harsh realities of many. I don’t know? I wonder about this because I feel the needs of people, I experience my own struggles, I see where giving can make such a positive difference in the world. When I give, I enjoy how it feels and want to give more. Imagine, if you had such vast resources, how much good you could do. Imagine supporting those causes that are dear to your heart. Imagine the face of those you help. Imagine spreading food, care, education, inspiration, joy all around the planet. Imagine helping others to grow, become aware and awakened to their own possibilities and potentials. What would it be like for you and those you care about to have financial freedom? How would you live and give. Let your imagination grow and watch as you create much of what you want. I have an idea, why don’t we all create in our consciousness the idea of having a billionaire heart. This heart is so full of riches that we can give and give and give. We can give love, we can give understanding, we can give by listening, and we can give of our time and resources. Forbes has its 400 billionaires list; we can have the People’s List of those with Billionaire hearts. I started an outline for an article or small book on having a Billionaire Heart this morning and the ideas where flying out of my fingers and into my word document. I will let you know when I have something more to share. Do you want to join the Billionaire Hearts Club? All you have to do to join is figure out how you want to give to make a difference in the world and then start doing it. Let your heart sing in celebration of your giving. Have fun doing it and find others to join in the fun and before long the world will open to an amazing flow of abundance. Remember to let us know how you are doing so we can add you to our Billionaire Hearts Club. Think and feel this as big as you can. “This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is the paradise. Always. Always. “ By Byron Katie from 365 Nirvana For more writing like this check out www.explorelifeblog.com

[Drifter]

“I like this prayer because it tells people who I am, what I am.
People do not know who or what I am,
and so they need this prayer to know me, to understand me.
I gave this prayer to them….
A day will come when they will know this….

In the future this prayer of Mine will be sung
in every house throughout the world..”
-Avatar Meher Baba

“In 1959,Avatar Meher Baba dictated
the first couplet of "You Alone Exist"
to His close disciple and
nightwatchman, Bhau Kalchuri.
By Baba's instructions, Bhau
added eleven additional couplets.

Baba finished the prayer three
years later,"sitting on His bed
and drumming on His thigh
with His fist in rhythm to the
lines He Himself was composing
for over an hour."

When Bhau questioned some of
the more unusual descriptions
of God in the prayer, Meher Baba
gestured," Do not change a
single word! The prayer is from Me
...it is all right! You have no idea
of the importance of this prayer.
In the future this prayer of Mine
will be sung in every house
throughout the world."


http://www.meherbabaavatar.com/youaloneexist/preview.htm

Infinite Love,
Drifter

[Drifter]

Violence and Non-Violence

Non-violence means love infinite. It is the goal of life. When pure and infinite love is reached the aspirant is at one with god. To reach this goal there must be intense longing and the aspirant who has this longing has to begin by practicing the "non-violence of the brave". This applied to those who, though not at one with all through realization, consider none to be their enemy and try to win over even the aggressor through love; they give up their lives through love not through fear.

"Non-violence of the brave" is practicable for those who have the intense longing to attain the supreme state. This longing is not to be found in the majority, If, therefore, it is intended to lead the majority to "non-violence", it is necessary first to prepare them for the "non-violence of the brave". To achieve this in a practical way it is necessary to make them follow, in the beginning, the principle of "non-violent violence" , that is, violence done solely for defending the weak without any selfish motive. In times of war, when the masses are in the mood to listen to advice about having intense longing to attain the supreme goal of life, the only practical way to lead them towards the goal is to begin inculcating in them the principle of "non-violent violence" and then gradually introducing the "non-violence of the brave". Otherwise non-violence would not only fail but there would be serious danger of the fatal "non-violence of the coward", i.e., non-resistance to aggression because of fear.

The masses may also be led to the "non-violence of the brave" by following the principles of "selfless violence" instead of those of "non-violent violence". The selfless violence is violence done in self defense when attacked treacherously. No other motive should be allowed to justify the violence. Thus for example, were a woman threatened with violation and one defends her by resorting to violence, he is said to have followed the principles of "selfless violence". Similarly when the motherland is being attacked by enemies, the nation's effort in defending the motherland is "selfless violence". An element of selfishness being there, the love expressed is limited human love.

"Non-violence of the coward" is fatal; so also is "selfish violence", i.e. violence for selfish motives by individuals or a national to gain power or for other selfish ends.

It will be therefore seen that non-violence is the goal of life, this goal is to be attained by individual seekers of God by following "non-violence of the brave". The majority who have not the intense longing for being one with God have to be led towards this goal on the principles of non-violent violence" or "selfless violence" according to the circumstances. It must be very clearly understood that "non-violent violence" and "selfless violence" are merely the means of attaining the goal of life, name the pure and simple "Non-violence" or the "Love infinite". These means must not be confused with the goal itself.

The motive and the result are determined by the acceptance of their being good or bad; for example, "non-violence of the brave" and "non-violence of the coward" are both non-violence, but, form the viewpoint of the motive force behind it, "non-violence of the brave" is born of love and "non violence of the coward" is born out of fear, which is the opposite of love. Although as non-violence they are not opposites, their motives are opposed. The motive behind "non violence of the brave" is losing one's life to gain infinite love, and the motive behind "non-violence of the coward" is to save one's own life. So "non-violence (of the coward) we describe as "non-love", as we describe "non-violence (of the brave)" as love.

"Non-violent violence" is justified not as love, but as duty - duty done selflessly for others according to Krama Yoga" which is linked with unlimited love- but human love.

The difference between these two opposite forces cannot be obliterated; but the transformation of one force to another can happen when expressed through right channels. Food given wrongly becomes poison but poison given in small quantities as a tonic may become food for the nerves. Indeed, all food is poison; it is only in the power of transformation that it becomes converted into good.

War is a necessary evil; it is in God's plan to awaken humanity to higher values. If humanity fails to profit by the lessons of war, it suffers in vain. War teaches that even the man in the street can rise to the greatest heights of sacrifice for the sake of a selfless cause; it also teaches that wealth, possessions, power, fame, family and even life on earth-are devoid of lasting value. The incidents of war can through the lessons they bring win man for God, and initiate him into a new life inspired by lasting values.

In war, people make unlimited sacrifices and endure untold sufferings for the sake of their country or in the interest of political aims; they are capable of the same sacrifices and endurance for God. All religions have unequivocally claimed man for life in Truth; and it is sheer folly to fight in the name of any religion. It is time for a fresh vision of the Truth that all life is one, that only God is real, and that God is all that matters. God is worth dying for. He is also worth living for. All else is vain and empty, the pursuit of illusory values.



excerpted from GOD To MAN and MAN TO GOD , the discourses of MEHER BABA edited by C.B. Purdom, Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1955


Infinite Love,
Drifter

[Drifter]

I Am One with That.

Love
Drifter