Prosperity Engine — Update — Paramita Abundance
[image error]Symbolic of the barriers to our Prosperity Engine. A dense fog in a forest making it difficult to see anything. Some parts of the subconscious are this “difficult” to parse out. Photo: #471825_1920 HuntingSchool (CC0) Pixabay, contrast.
Before we jump into the main topic of today’s article, I need to share a major, personal breakthrough. And wouldn’t you know it, this ties into today’s topic perfectly.
I woke up this morning with the usual “blahs”—sort of an emotional gray—cheerless and indistinct.
I attempted to sharpen the focus on it, but all I got were fuzzy impressions of a collection of varying negative feelings: hopeless, worry, frustration, fear, but none of them strong or distinct.
Then, I realized that the “blah” itself was strong and distinct—as distinct as a fog can be. I’ve been sitting with this feeling all my life and tended to welcome grief, anger, worry, rage, conflict and others as a break from the boring gray of “blah.”
This “blah” doesn’t call attention to itself, and in fact, tends to bounce awareness away from it while maintaining a strong grasp on the subconscious (feeling) attention.
In a way, it’s kind of like anything we take for granted—air, gravity, time, space, etc. Most of us, for instance, almost never see our nose, even though it remains in constant line of sight accessibility. This “blah” was like that, but with several tricks to make it relatively invisible.
I’ve been on the verge of discovering this for weeks, and only know this fact in hindsight. Just before this discovery, I was revisiting the idea that without self-concern, there are no limitations. Perhaps the “blah” is an amalgam of egoism itself—the inward attention of all forms of self-concern. This “blah” remained a perfect limitation, as perfect as any physical thing can be.
Also, I was thinking about how God will take care of us, so there’s no need for any worry or fear.
Maybe this is the darkness of the subconscious and thus not entirely dark—merely a distraction of indistinctness or fuzziness so the casual glance of the conscious mind couldn’t latch onto it.
The juice of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Dichotomies (Good and Evil, etc.) is bland—a mix of sweet, sour, bitter and others.
I’m so glad I had powered up my awareness with all the negative—as well as the positive—emotions (see Prosperity Engine — Update — Getting Comfortable With Change and the Unknown, section on “Added Power: Prosperity Engine Turbo-Charged Rocket Thrusters”). The extra energy helped me to crack through the self-imposed blindness I had suffered.
Everything that happens to us is a clue to what we need to look at.
[image error]The perfection of a stack of balanced rocks. Symbolic of the paramita clarity required to build our Prosperity Engine. Photo: #2020100_1920 NanDhukumar (CC0) Pixabay.
Yes, that’s right: Everything that happens to us is a clue to what we need to look at. As spiritual beings, we are struggling to learn the lessons God has set before us in this training ground called the physical universe. Clarification: The struggle takes place on the physical side of our dual nature; the spiritual side does not know of things like difficulty, effort or struggle.
As spiritual beings, we sit outside of time, asleep (spiritually “dead”) with an umbilical cord attached to the “Now Cursor” of physical reality. Our human lives are our “dreams.” At least, this is my current, figurative take on everything.
On the physical side of things, we are dichotomous (Newtonian, action-reaction) beings. We usually obey the laws of gravity, momentum and inertia. We obey the law of the conservation of energy. This obedience is not out of direct choice, because our selfish self (egoistic, physical, separate) would have us break those laws on occasion in order to save our life, or to gain a critical advantage. But a purely physical being cannot break physical law. It doesn’t have the leverage to do so. For example, there is no location within a car to place a lever and fulcrum in order to move the car with that lever.
Karma Can Clog Up Our Prosperity Engine
[image error]A dangerous cliff. Photo: #1030825_1920 Free-Photos (CC0) Pixabay.
Karma is merely a function of egoistic action-reaction. Push someone over a cliff and then someone pushes us over a cliff.
Live by the sword; die by the sword (Matthew 26:52).
What is truly interesting about this effect is that karma is not always (and maybe never is) instantaneous. And for good reason.
“The Lord is longsuffering [patient], and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation” (Numbers 14:18).
Our human brain and attitudes may not be ready to make the best use of karma. We may need to switch things up in order to benefit from such return tragedy—an event which is simply a Newtonian reaction through ego.
For example: A psychopathic mob boss enjoys killing others and taking their fortunes. And he dies of old age, peacefully and comfortably in the villa built on the blood and bones of countless others. Some people might think that Jesus was wrong when he said that those who live by the sword shall die by the sword. But the hardened heart of that mob boss would not have benefited from dying by the violence by which he had lived. We have to wait 3–4 generations for that spiritual “sweet spot.”
The mob boss dies, is reborn into a poor, religious family of hard-working siblings. They build a life of prosperity, but one day attract the attention of a new mobster who kills the siblings and takes the prosperity of their hard work. As the reincarnated mob boss dies, he prays, “Oh, God! Why is this happening to me? I’ve been good. Why do you abandon us?” And naturally, God had done no such thing. In fact, the gift of karma was not appreciated for what it was.
God’s Logic Is What Powers Our Prosperity Engine
[image error]The perfection of a drop of water splashing into a calm pool of water. Photo: #1759703_1920 Qimono (CC0) Pixabay.
Remember the false logic of Lex Luthor (used by many atheists) to “prove” that an omniscient and omnipotent God could not exist (Prosperity Engine — Update — Leveraging the Negative, section on “Using Negative ‘Irresponsibility’ in Our Prosperity Engine”).
God’s wisdom transcends the simplistic, 1-dimensional logic of people like Richard Dawkins, or fictional characters like Lex Luthor (and the real-life authors who write their words).
Whenever ANYTHING happens in our current life, we are 100% responsible for it.
If we shirk that responsibility, or blame someone else, we are putting a fog of more “blah” over Truth—the Truth that would otherwise set us free.
Instead of letting any event annoy, frustrate or anger us, we need to look for the gratitude to complete the karma that we had set in motion generations ago. If we are not grateful—if we don’t take full, loving and generous responsibility for it—then we will remain trapped in that karmic cycle.
If you’ve ever heard of the Lord’s Prayer in any one of its many translations, you should then be familiar with the line, “…and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.” In other words, by taking full responsibility for what others have done to us, God will—through the natural law He created—lift the burden of our own karmic debt on that one topic.
If we dig deeply and find all of the karmic debts and broaden our forgiveness to everyone and every event, as was Christ’s lesson on the cross to all of us, then we will be FREE of ALL karmic debt.
Remember: When we give up self-concern (including fear of karma), we no longer have any limitation.
Egoistic (Dichotomous) Concerns vs. Paramita Bestowals
[image error]Perfect representation of this action-reaction universe — the rocket thrust and resultant launch of the Space Shuttle. Photo: NASA (PD).
Our physical universe is built on the concept of conflict—two-sided opposition—and action-reaction forces (Sir Isaac Newton).
Ego is the fruit (product) of the Tree of Knowledge of Dichotomies (Genesis 2–3). And karma is the direct result of egoistic action (sin)—any egoistic action.
We have two realms—the spiritual and the physical. For most of us, our primary awareness is locked on the physical.
We admire the good person, especially the selfless hero who risks everything to help someone else. We admire their competence when they succeed and tend to regret their incompetence when their sacrifice is in vain.
For most of us, “being good” is a relative thing. Some people are more good than others. We tend to admire the good done by those who do their deeds in private.
We may be familiar with the concept of the “Pure Heart,” and instinctively sense that such a trait is either a fantasy or extremely rare. Even in the movies, the evil sorcerer seeks out the “Pure Heart” in order to tap into its power. Of course, Hollywood writers mangle the truth on this.
[image error]The elegant, artistic perfection of nature — maple leaves in autumn. Photo: #62759 JamesDeMers (CC0) Pixabay.
A pure heart isn’t “natural,” because anything born of physical reality is naturally, inherently selfish (evil), for that is the lowest common denominator of the human animal. A pure heart only comes from going spiritual—getting outside of the physical “matrix.” Because of this, a “Pure Heart” is not the oblivious and incompetently weak, little girl—vulnerable to the power of Evil—but more, the humble and spiritual individual who can walk on water, turn water into wine, and feed thousands from the meal of a dozen.
There are two types of “good:”
The tainted, imperfect good of the physical being—corrupted by even one spot of selfishness, andThe perfect good of spirit which knows no corruption, because such limitations cannot exist in the realm of spirit.
Physical “good” is two sided—dichotomous—for it contains the seeds of evil—self-concern.
Spiritual “good” is one-sided—perfect.
This perfection is called, in Buddhism—“paramita.”
The word “paramita,” according to one derivation, means “beyond the shore” or “to the other shore.” The other shore is the “land” of spirit, facing the entire physical universe.
This concept of “beyond” also fits into the other etymological source of the word—“excellence” or “transcendence.”
[image error]Diagram of the relationship between the physical realm, with its “good-evil” dichotomy, and the perfect (“paramita”) “Other Shore” of the spiritual realm. Diagram: © Rod Martin, Jr.
As you can see from this diagram, the “Pure Heart” good of spirit is not in the same dimension (or direction) as mortal good. So, a mortal can push the extremes of mortal good and get no closer to the paramita good of spirit.
Being mortal good helps us “see” the spiritual good, because there are similarities, but there are critical differences.
Mortal good is the viewpoint of the physical being, and is thus limited and egoistic.
Spiritual good resides outside of the physical realm, and is thus pure and unlimited.
Relevance: How the Paramita Helps Us Build Our Prosperity Engine
[image error]Lonely boat ready to make the journey to the “other shore” of paramita good. Photo: #3062045_1920 Quangpraha (CC0) Pixabay.
Why do we even need to talk about this, and what does this have to do with our Prosperity Engine?
Building the Prosperity Engine is a spiritual quest. This may seem wrong, because many of us associate prosperity with materialism and material wealth, but that misses the entire idea. Prosperity and materialism can be a trap if we stay attached and physical. But we intend to become detached (free and responsible) and spiritual.
Building our Prosperity Engine requires spiritual knowledge and spiritual leverage.
Physical-based prosperity involves,
Lots of physical, hard work,Years of patience,Possibly compound interest from savings,Possibly theft or murder, to acquire or to protect, our fortune, andMany other physical methods, tools and ideas.
[image error]Three arrows in the “bullseye” suggest skill, instead of the elusive “luck.” But now we know that “luck” is merely a misunderstood skill. Photo: #2886223_1920 QuinceCreative (CC0) Pixabay.
“Luck” is a misunderstood symbol for spiritual action (a skill)—a Prosperity Engine at work.
When we become more aware of the spiritual realm and can start to tell the difference between physical and paramita (perfected) good, we will start to master the skills to finish building and running our Prosperity Engine.
Buddhism discusses a limited number of paramitas, but we can perfect any mortal good in the spiritual realm.
Prosperity is inherently a relative good that can be perfected by spirit. Here are some examples of physical dichotomies compared to their spiritual counterparts:
Good-Evil vs. Paramita Good,Love-Hate vs. Paramita Love,Responsible-Blaming vs. Paramita Responsibility,Humble-Arrogant vs. Paramita Humility,Confidence-Doubt vs. Paramita Confidence,Wisdom-Stupidity vs. Paramita Wisdom,Generous-Selfish vs. Paramita Generosity,Grateful-Resentful vs. Paramita Gratitude,Compassion-Indifference vs. Paramita Compassion,Competence-Failure vs. Paramita Competence,Perpetrator-Victim vs. Paramita Creation.
Cultivating Purity of Heart for Our Prosperity Engine
[image error]Wisdom vs. Perfectionism. The perfection of the paramitas is not effort or struggle, but effortlessness. Photo: #92901_1920 Geralt (CC0) Pixabay.
Working from paramita qualities makes our actions and intentions “Pure of Heart” and spiritual. Such intentions also lack self-concern and tend to look effortless or even “lucky.”
If we have the humble attitude that anyone and everyone can have the blessings we desire, before we gain them for our self, plus maintain the spotless confidence that God can give them to us instantly, then we will have achieved the faith that can move mountains. We will be the Last who shall become First.
Building our Prosperity Engine, we have to make it all unimportant. We need to let go in order to receive it. We need to have the relaxed and generous confidence that everyone else in the entire universe can get prosperity before we get it. Suddenly, our request becomes timeless—superior to time—and thus spiritual. Now, outside the physical universe, we have the leverage and power to break all its laws. And this is part of what God wants us to learn. But we also need to give up all attachments, because they signify importance, lack and scarcity. With paramita prosperity, we have no limits.
Physical confidence, for instance, can sustain us to achieve great things through physical means, and thus remains limited by physical law.
Paramita confidence is unlimited and frees us to achieve what may be physically impossible—bending or breaking physical law. In other words, paramita confidence has the potential to deliver unlimited results.
The difference between various levels of physical confidence is one of degree—like an analog clock, the second hand of which sweeps through every possible value on the clock’s face. Thus, the physical—natural realm of science—is analog (or continuous) in nature.
The difference between physical and spiritual confidence is more discrete—like an on-off switch, and thus digital in nature. In the spiritual realm, there are no variations of degree in confidence; there is only the constant perfection of confidence. Thus, the spiritual—supernatural realm of creation—is digital (or discontinuous) in nature.
This on-off, digital, or discontinuous nature of the spiritual paramitas or perfections is similar to one profound condition in physical reality—the state known as “pregnancy.” A woman is either 0% pregnant or 100% pregnant. There is no such thing as 38.9% pregnant. This is entirely digital.
So, we can’t exactly sneak up on Paramita Prosperity. We can study and practice imagining such a thing in the physical—remaining at 0% spiritual—but sooner or later, we have to decide to go through that gateway to 100% spiritual. We need to go from 0% miracle to 100% miracle. Digital!
We need to become pregnant with the spirit of God.
Those who build the most powerful Prosperity Engine will be taking 100% responsibility for the prosperity of everyone on the planet—indeed, everyone in the entire universe. We will be wishing for everyone else their own prosperity. In fact, we will remain quite comfortable with the idea of everyone else gaining their desired prosperity before we obtain ours.
Paramita Prosperity for our Prosperity Engine means no limiting number—not $1 Million, or $1 Billion, or $1 Trillion, or $1 Quadrillion, or even $1 Quintillion. Jesus Christ had his own Prosperity Engine, but he had a different mission. And remember his words of wisdom to the rich young man. Yet, the young man was too attached to his physical wealth. His heart was not pure; it was too full of lack and scarcity.
And when we add sufficient value to the whole of civilization, everyone will enjoy a new level of prosperity that makes the poorest of the poor look rich when compared to the poor of today.
Coming Up Next
Tomorrow’s article involves the three dimensions of space, and exercises to build our spiritual mastery over physical reality.
