WORK IN PROGRESS:
This post is a work in progress and is subject to changes, revisions, edits and deletions. I've presented it here to give you an idea of a general concept; however, I'm not sure I've done a very good job explaining it. Please bear with me as I continue to work through this.
Some people may ask, "If we're already in bestowal, surrounded by love, why should we change? Why not just continue to live our lives as we do today?"
The answer is because there are two kinds of bestowal - bestowal above selfishness, and bestowal of bestowal. They're actually the same thing, they're both bestowal, but for the purposes of understanding them, let's split them up:
- Bestowal Above Selfishness:
- Today, we're all immersed in selfishness, seeking to benefit ourselves with no regard for others.
- In this state, we harm ourselves, others and all of Nature, which is the world that we see today.
- All the systems that exist in the world today have been built on the quality of selfishness.
- While we're in selfishness, we're oblivious to a number of things:
- We don't know that we're in selfishness, and
- We don't know about bestowal.
- We come to know bestowal (and specifically the bestowal above selfishness) only after we change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature). (Eventually, the negative aspects associated with the quality of selfishness change and become something positive. The negative aspects disappear and all that's left is bestowal and love.)
- Bestowal Of Bestowal:
- Once our intention, our internal qualities change from selfishness (seeking to benefit ourselves) to bestowal (seeking to benefit others and Nature), we go through a change in the perception of our reality and we 'see' a number of things:
- For the first time, we 'see' the quality of selfishness
- For the first time, we 'see' the quality of bestowal
- Eventually, we come to 'see' bestowal above selfishness.
- While we're in bestowal, we seek to do good to others (and Nature), to benefit them in a positive and constructive way.
- This means that we create new systems, a new world built on the quality of bestowal. The world that we build with the quality of bestowal will look very different from the world that exists today.
- When we build that world, we'll see bestowal of bestowal, a world of bestowal that's been built by the quality of bestowal.
It's absolutely necessary for our internal qualities to change from selfishness to bestowal because there are two kinds of bestowal - bestowal above selfishness, and bestowal of bestowal.
When we change from selfishness to bestowal, we move from one operating system to another, and we'll build a new world based on the quality of bestowal, a world that will look very different from the world that exists today.
Knowing that we're surrounded by love doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.
When we change from selfishness to bestowal, we move from one operating system to another, and we'll build a new world based on the quality of bestowal, a world that will look very different from the world that exists today.
Knowing that we're surrounded by love doesn't mean that we can do whatever we want, not at all. In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others and Nature instead of ourselves.
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