THE GREED OF POSSESION

The greed of possesion ( WHERE OUR AFRICAN LEADERS HAVE TO BE BETTER AWARE OF FROM TODAY ONWARDS PLEASE )

Another great hindrance to human happiness is the belief in the possession of ones talents, gifts abilities and capabilities. This thinking is what the world of today is based on, especially the law of I, me and mine. We are constantly bombarded with the creed of self improvement, self fulfilment, self validation and self expression.

We believe ourselves to be the authors of our life, creators of our potential and the only worthy beneficiaries of the bounties capable of being produced through our abilities, talents and skills.

Our talents are in our ( in my ) view gifts from life itself. We add to and cultivate them through experience, study and hard work. This does not in anyway make them ours in the sense of today’s understanding.

Today`s is a mindset that says “I can do this and that and I will use this ability to make money”. Or even worse “I will use my abilities which are beyond the norm to dominate those I see as lesser” again in ones own narrow egotistical interest.”

What one has been given is not only for oneself. It is to be refined and developed, and all that one brings forth is not only pleasing to ones self and sense of self worth it benefits the community in which one lives, the people with whom one inter- relates and the wider world in which we reside.

We are gifted by life and return the gifts through refining and applying them in the existence that we lead, with purpose of bettering or enriching life itself. This is true self fulfilment and it is this that gives a sense of meaning to ones existence. All else one can achieve is nothing but a poor substitute.

What leads us astray is not the sense of possession but the greed that lies deeply concealed within this form of possession. We refuse to share in what we have for the benefit of others. Instead we feel attached to our immaterial possessions, our intellectual property and will use it only to benefit ourselves, our limited petty minute egotistical selves.

We can even pretend we are giving from our wealth of blessings but this is a giving based on appearing benevolent and always in the spirit of the better pitying the fool and giving drops of salvation.

We are each others helpers not masters. The whole concept of masters is based on the idea that some are more gifted than others, and these gifts are theirs to posses not to be put to service in the interest of the community. Here we mean true service, not today`s counterfeit service which is actually mass manipulation and delusion of both the individual and the collective.