It is in the emotion of money that we are led astray. When we keep our thoughts on the power of money and all the good it can create, that is the space of abundance. It is from that platform that it flows and grows. It is goodness and love that increases energy.

F

I was highly caffeinated at the time and using words like ‘retarded’ and ‘stupid’ was intolerant. Looking back, my rant was very counter intuitive. I apologize.

Now get out there and follow your bliss!

P.S. Erol…..nice post.

Thank you. Your explaination made sense – especially the LOVE of money part.

However, when one includes statements that another’s views are ‘stupid’
or ‘retarded’, it tends to reduce the credibility of those statements, especially
when that same person is espouses a viewpoint which advocates
acceptance, understanding and compassion.

Simply because I didn’t understand what Dr. Chopra was saying doesn’t
make me, or anyone, stupid or retarded. But, calling those who are
less enlightened than yourself these things tends to drive them away
from your way of thinking rather than encouraging them to see things
your way.

I doubt that if Dr. Chopra had taken the time to answer my question
he would have used either term. So, I’d keep the possessive, “my boy”
out of your postings.

Much love,
John

Actually, the New Testament states “the LOVE of money is the root of all evil”. This missing word I feel is what Deepak and others are clarifing. Money is nothing. But attachment, love it rather than one’s art, profession, or contribution would be less spiritual.

Churches for centuries have implied that man would be better off in destitute poverty with nothing. Of course, the churches also want 10% of everything and the Vatican qualifies as a country with it’s own bank. If all churches stopped accepting money, closed their doors, and gave the money too the poor, then we might see how the poverty preaching works in practice.But churches realize that without money, they could do NO good works. They need people to be prosperous so they can do good works. It’s ironic eh?

Discerning “the love of money” from “money” takes conscriousness. Love is attachment, thinking about money constantly. Most poor people think about money every moment. Many rich people think about their work, employing people, building, creating charities. Who loves money more?

I don’t understand why having material wealth or not keeps getting dragged into matters
of spiritual development. Why do we still insist that Spirit has “rules” for being
“spiritual” or for developing spiritually? Or, as some claim, that “being spiritual” will
get us what we want (wealth, career, etc.) faster or better? My inner understanding
of my own relationship with Spirit is that if I want something then I can manifest it –
along with the consequences of having it, whether for good or ill, and the lesson
that attends the experience. Therefore, having or not having ANYTHING does not
make one more or less spiritual. One’s attitude toward having or not having
something (whether a physical, material, mental, or emotional anything) will
offer development opportunities. Beyond that, there isn’t really anymore to say,
is there?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BlqLwCKkeY

Listen to it, till the end because it covers all problems that have only
one solution, given in the end 🙂

“when my goals have been based on simply the
completion of the task at hand, the fulfilling happiness”

Ok so check it out…….if your goals of completing the task at hand and fulfilling happiness happen to be running parrallel to material gain then so be it. Just dont make material gain your focus (new car, bigger house, wtv). That is stupid.

Let me quote my boy Deepak in his above passage (which you chose to ignore)

“Wealth and material comforts are not barriers to spiritual growth, it is the attachment and identification that are the problem, and one can be just as lost by being attached to poverty as one can be by being attached to money.”

Read that previous passage 3 times over and realize that your comment shouldn’t even exist.

Making material gains a goal is retarded. So you can extract some zeros from your bank account and go lamp up in a desolate island by yourself coveting your millions while dressed in hand woven silk and luxury linen? Get outta here.

Fuel your passion. The first mistake you made is by not honoring your passion…….your passion isn’t a new car, a bigger house. Your not your car or your house.

Here’s a thought………hmmm……what if the more material gain you have (which were ofcourse gained via pursuing your passion), the more leverage and power you gain to do greater things. And wait more….what if….WHAT IF those GREATER things im referring to are ways to offer more value/service to your fellow men (after your secured shelter and food for your family ofcourse).

Deepak is saying that he’s down with whatever route you take so long as it is congruent with your spiritual liberation. The musician with no currency that is in his shack making music for spiritual liberation is the same as the rich musician that is making music for spiritual liberation. The rich one just got lucky in that more people like his music. Now if he changes his style AKA “sells out” and starts shooting for a target when creating art in a shallow effort to monetize….thats chasing material gain. His art will suffer, and so will the amount to which his spirit is liberated. It’s not congruent ya know?? If he is motivated to make money from his music only to make MORE and BETTER music, what is wrong with that? If you have a million dollar vision for a video you want to shoot……and it CANT be executed without that million dollars…..how else can you execute it?

At this point I hope you realizing that this million dollar video isn’t a wealth based goal. The goal is based on simply the completion of the task at hand.

When your following your path and not hurting others along the way……spiritual growth always precedes monetary gain.

I

I, as I’m certain a great many other readers, have, in the past, worked very hard
to achieve a wealth-based goal (be it a new car, bigger house, or whatever) then
found a peculiar ‘hollowness’ when I realized that meeting that goal did not provide
the happiness I had expected, but instead had made me a slave to the ongoing
‘quest for more’. However, when my goals have been based on simply the
completion of the task at hand, the fulfilling happiness I have felt when I
succeeded was far greater than any time I was after a material goal.

Freedom does not come through material gain. The views of Ghandi,
Mother Theresa, and Amma would most likely agree with this. Material
gain simply provides more chains of slavery, even if they are gold.