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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kirk © who wrote (9161)	4/12/2020 10:54:34 PM
From: robert b furman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26587

Will do. Same to you! Bob

To: Kirk © who wrote (9161)	4/13/2020 12:12:29 AM
From: Winfastorlose	1 Recommendation Recommended By w0z Respond to of 26587

There have been others. John 14:12-14 New International Version (NIV) 12 Very truly I tell you, whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. there are probably a few cases of people who will make large sacrifices and expect nothing in return. My guess is the last one to walk this Earth was crucified.... but maybe there was another.

To: Kirk © who wrote (9161)	4/13/2020 3:24:51 AM
From: Joseph Silent	2 Recommendations Recommended By dan6 IC720 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26587

In looking at situations I often remind myself to not ask "what is wrong with this?" but instead to ask "what is right with this?". Now the question becomes harder and takes more work to answer. There is nothing wrong with wealth. For that matter, there is nothing wrong with poverty either. In the end, there is nothing wrong with anything. As Shakespeare once said .... "there is nothing good or bad, only thinking makes it so!". He had terribly keen insight and was teaching us that 1. your thoughts about a situation and 2. the situation itself are two entirely different things. Nine out of ten, or perhaps 99 out of a 100 people cannot separate the two. This is the source of untold suffering. The constructs of "I will work hard, I will accumulate wealth, my country is great and helps me accumulate wealth" rest on other constructs. If everybody worked equally hard, the wealth would be equally distributed. Now imagine that all traders make the same profits. That would make you unhappy. So there is an implicit assumption that "I can work harder than he can" or "I am better than he is". Understand that the focus is acquisition. Competition becomes key, and the fact that competition is often between apples and oranges is ignored. Person A gets a head start, person B started poor ..... not really a fair competition. So no matter what the system is, it fails somebody unfairly. Imagine if the amount of oxygen in the world is limited, and if you worked harder you would get more oxygen. Now the dilemma is that to work harder you must expend more oxygen, and therefore you will do a calculation to optimize your work. And everyone does the same. Wealth is access to oxygen. Now the wars will start for one group to capture more oxygen and thus become "a great people, with abundant oxygen". :) In the end all of this amounts to a hill of beans .... wealth, great country, dog and pony shows, fancy fishing boats ..... everything. Yes, you can enjoy these while they last but nothing lasts ..... not even the most beautiful woman you fell in love with and captured for yourself. The one treasure we all have uniformly has nothing to do with country or race or wealth or "our system is better than their system" etc. These are all the thought constructs that dance in our heads endlessly and sap our energy and consume our waking hours. The one treasure we all share is time. And I mean this moment. Not the next one. Not the last one. And the jewel in the crown is your experience of this one fully, and this one and this one ...... not discussing it, analyzing it, catalyzing it .... just experiencing it fully. Every religion will say this in different ways. They are saying "when you do not do this, you are asleep in a dream world". So then .... the challenge is to awaken. And thus see that there is no system. No need of a system. Seems impractical in the dream? Perhaps. But what about living, acquiring, quarreling and dying is practical? There is a story of a Japanese master (I think it was Banzan) who struggled with enlightenment (that's a loaded word but let's not worry about what it means). One day he was at the market shuffling about to buy something, and he overhearing heard a man arguing with the butcher, demanding a better cut of meat. The butcher said aloud "but every cut of meat is the best cut of meat!" ...... and just that sentence knocked him into enlightenment. He was never the same again. And how can you tell? By listening to what comes out of an enlightened being, or seeing such a being work. In that work all intent will not involve that being. Why? You could say it happens because the person that was inside there before has disappeared. :) Why did it happen? Because he was awake in that moment. And in every such moment. None of this is easy. But as long as one is alive, none of it is hard either.