A general missive on the use of tools -Linda

[Guest guest]

OM NAMAH SIVAYA

 

very nice Linda much to think about... and like you said it is all

in the intent. we all have our own tools that God gave us. but

even if you had taken the "paycheck" as the typist that money is

Shakti that She can use. Amma along with words and ideas, also

donated $23 million to help relieve the suffering of the Tsunami

victims. so you could have had a positive influence thru affluence.

if more people with money were more spiritually minded, or if more

spiritually minded people had money, things would happen much

quicker. the poor are not exactly driving our countries resources or

decisions. money is a powerful form of Shakti on the physical plane.

 

JAI MA

 

Ammachi, nierika@a... wrote:

>

>

> Dear Group,

>

> I was initially responding to a post, and then I realized that

what I was

> going to be writing was a general, in a way, more philosophical

response to some

> things that have been standing out to me in the group lately. And

now I know

> some of you will wonder what this witch is doing in your midst.

>

> I can't quite feel comfortable with the idea that "thoughts" are

the bad

> guys. I'm not sure that I believe that thoughts and the ego are

equivalent; in

> fact I'm pretty sure they're not. We were born on this earth of

four or five or

> ten elements and directions, depending on what culture you're

looking at,

> and often these elements and directions are viewed as direct

corollaries to

> human qualities. For example, Fire representing East and Spirit,

and on the

> human level, energy; Water representing South and the Soul,

intuition, feelings,

> psychic and visionary abilities and such; Earth representing the

West, and

> the physical body, groundedness, reality creation, etc.; and Air

representing

> North and thoughts, ideas, points of view, etc.

>

>

> To me, none of these are "bad" or "good" except in how they are

used. How do

> the Tusnami victims find relief. Because Amma decides to do

something, and

> through using ideas and words, She can extend that idea outward

where it

> becomes powered by feeling and energy, and then becomes something

to help another

> or many others. These things which plauge us ~ thoughts,

feelings, our sense

> of energy, our physical selves, are also our tools; they are

gifts we all

> were given to weave our Story on the Earth plane ... so what kind

of story will

> we create, participate in, or advance?

>

> When I was a young woman, I was terrified of my own thoughts. Now

I know,

> this was just fear and egotism turned in on itself. I have

experienced

> paranoia, and it is not just a feeling, but a physically

crushing, tingling hot/cold

> sensation, as if your own Self were turning in on you. Once I

told my

> painting teacher in response to something she said to me, "Oh I

can't think very

> well." (The truth was that I was afraid of my own thoughts and

didn't want to

> use my ability to think.) She said, "oh, yes you can, Linda. You

have a very

> good mind." Her words, a thought, an act of compassion, born of

caring for me,

> opened up a whole new world for me, a world where I could allow

my thoughts

> to blossom, to take wing, to become paintings and stories and

songs...to

> become the work I did with others during my "career." Why did I

do the kind of

> work I did, when I knew I had no retirement, when I knew I could

make more money

> even being a typist (in DC, typists get paid very very well)?

Because I had

> a thought that I wanted my life to stand for something, that I

wanted the

> work I did to have meaning and be more than a paycheck.

>

> In my early '20's, I stood at a crossroads, between two thoughts

and two

> courses of energy direction. Was I going to pursue music or art?

The question

> itself was a thought. I never stopped doing music, but my

decision was about

> time and energy, and feelings. Was I going to go to college and

study art or

> would it be music? I knew that with an infant, I couldn't do

both. When I

> choose art, that choice, that decision, that action, all based on

a thought (and

> some feelings) took me down a whole different road than the one I

would have

> traveled if I had decided to study music. When I had my daughter,

I thought,

> "I am not going to have her experience what I did as a child. She

will not be

> abused or afraid." I thought about it, and I chose to break the

cycle. Did I

> still make mistakes? You bet. I had a lot of blind spots I didn't

know about,

> but my daughter was never afraid of being herself, of speaking

her mind, of

> being different, because I thought about it.

>

> I have stared into the heart of evil within myself, and I know

what it is

> and what it isn't. It isn't about the tool; it's about the intent.

Jai Ma ~

> Linda

>

>

>

>