More than half a life time back I came to Eckankar. At first the goal was clear I wanted to become a HI, an Higher Initiate. When I finally reached that goal my live changed, which was to be expected - in the inner and the outer. It took me about 6 month to master the mayor changes and deal with it in the inner. And then?
Yes!
And then I realized I had no more goal!
You might think "And? What is the problem?"
You define a new goal!
I agree and that is easy as long as you can imagine what is within your reach.
Imagine you die, reach the pearly gates and St. Peter asks you what you want to do the next million of years. If you do not know what the heaven really is, it is difficult to image what to go, where to go.
About 2 month ago a long term contact ended and I was a freelancer again (without regular income) and about 1 month aho I came across Cashunite. Gathering the available information together with my knowledge if the net, I immediately saw a huge potential for me and for others. So I decided to go for it and as a side effect help others.
As a spiritual being in a certain situation I tend to see something for me to learn and something to give. For a beggar a coin might be worth much more than a friendly or wise word.
Well, I have more wisdom to share than coins.
Now with Cashunite I could do both. If you know the Philippines you know that beside miles and miles of endless empty beaches and a beautiful landscape, there are also lots and lots of social problems. What I referring too is that schooling/eduction is expensive and that there is no divorce law. So many women are dumped by there husbands, together with their children.
Being an online worker I also do a lot of chatting and meet a lot of those women.
There is hardly a week I am not asked if I have work for them. With Cashunite I thought I have.
I admit I am a dreamer, a careful dreamer. Cashunite, like many other Internet businesses promisses a lot. So not to give false hope I was thinking up what to do if Cashunite did not work out. With this in mind I started to promote and offer this chance to the dumped mothers and ex-wives.
I had expected that they more than willingly would grab this opportunity.
I was wrong.
And I had problems understanding!
But with questioning the ones I knew from chatting I realized most of them had a fairly close horizon. It is like living in a small valley. What I was offering them was behind their horizon and hardly imaginable. Like I was when I finally had reached my first spiritual goal in Eckankar. To make things worse, things we do not know create a feeling of uncertainty and fear. But fear is something we try to avoid instead of confront.
So here I was with a solution to their problem. In a way this is a frustrating situation.
But frustration is not a solution! They could not imagine and hence could not set it as a goal!
Then what is the solution?
Well, as Richard Bach says in his book "Illusions - the adventure of a reluctant Messiah" we are looking for problems because we want the gifts hidden in the solution.
One of my gifts is to realize that this outer experience is a reflection of something inner I go through.
And the solution for these women and their children?
That is NOT my problem! Hence my solution would deprive them from the gifts they learn by solving their problem?
So I am an egoist?
It may seem so, but I think it takes more love to let people do what they need to do for themselves than to insist on a solution which is not theirs.
I would not be surprised if this is the reason why so many development projects fail.
I already learned a lot by joining Cashunite. I invite you to join me in this adventure - no matter where in the world you are! It can solve your financial problems, but even if not you know often walking the way is what matters, not (only) reaching the goal.
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