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"All our lines of enquiry therefore return to this same position, which is to realise the necessity of creating a new economic order that is no longer profit-based, shall we say, but rather ‘love-based’ or ‘common-sense based’ in its global structures and modes of resource distribution. In other words, the inner transformations must support the new forms of outer expression, which is why we must begin with the understanding that worsening extremes of inequality are the underlying cause of the destruction being witnessed in the outer commons of our environment. Indeed if we re-examine the holistic process of world renewal as explained up till now, then we may perceive more clearly how sharing (as a divine principle) holds the answer for transforming humanity from the inner to the outer, and not the other way around. Above all, it is the principle of sharing that can reveal the formula for how to generate joie de vivre among the world’s citizenry, eventually leading to increased detachment within individuals to a certain extent and, consequently, growing awareness of the outer commons.
Reflect on this carefully, for there is immeasurable significance to the quality of inner or spiritual detachment that is apparently overlooked by most proponents of the commons today. To give another example, as a company executive or shareholder I may be complicit in destroying the environment through profitable commercial activity, due to my inner attachment to money or other self-seeking motives for achieving a high social status, and whatever else it may be. But when people’s hearts are engaged with a massive psychosocial transformation throughout society towards alleviating the needless suffering caused by hunger and poverty, then even the billionaire is likely to become involved in redistributing resources to the starving and destitute millions, leading to a preliminary degree of detachment from that individual’s pursuit of wealth and other materialistic interests. Eventually, once an individual becomes emotionally and spiritually detached from the pursuit of material gain and power in all its guises, then everything that surrounds them will be unconsciously recognised as the commons, and treated in due measure.
The implications are endless over time, for if we could personify the existence of the commons then it would beg humanity to live more simply, and become aware of the destruction that human beings are inflicting upon the earth through mass patterns of unsustainable consumption. The more complex life becomes in a divided, demoralised and commercialised modern society, the less people are likely to care about the state of the environment, or the commons in general. To live simply with less wants and material needs therefore requires a worldwide awakening of the heart, because the engaged heart always calls for simplicity through joy, detachment, harmlessness and right human relationship. In these small observations we can merely begin to perceive how detachment is a great ally to the commons in all its forms, and how the principle of sharing will bring about that inner detachment en masse through a newfound joie de vivre that will affect everyone, from the very richest to the least privileged individual.
Click link for diagram:
issuu.com/stwr/docs/diagram_-_insert_before_or_after_pa
In contemplating the inner and outer dimensions of world transformation as encapsulated in the diagram above, it should be clear that a very different kind of education will result from sharing the world’s resources, one that stems from the freeing of millions of people to experience the joyfulness of simply being alive. Moreover, it is an education that will benefit everyone regardless of nationality, background or social position, because its origins lie within the awareness of the human heart—and there is only one Heart, one Humanity in the final analysis. And it is through that joy, through that inclusive awareness and love, that the individual is led to be harmless in their personal relationships and everyday activities. A harmlessness that is expressed through selfless service to others and reverence for all that lives and evolves within this manifested world and beyond. A harmlessness that can also be defined by its compatibility with the commons in its broadest of expressions, however long it may take to realise this state of awareness over succeeding generations, and from lifetime to lifetime as far as each individual is concerned. And it is through the combined expression of harmlessness by all peoples in all areas of life, that consciousness can expand until the laws of the commons begin to govern our social and economic affairs. Perhaps that is when the occurrence of wars between nations will naturally come to an end—even the concept of war itself, if we dare to anticipate such an eventuality in the time ahead.
- Read more at:
www.sharing.org/information-centre/reports/commons-humanity
Reflect on this carefully, for there is immeasurable significance to the quality of inner or spiritual detachment that is apparently overlooked by most proponents of the commons today. To give another example, as a company executive or shareholder I may be complicit in destroying the environment through profitable commercial activity, due to my inner attachment to money or other self-seeking motives for achieving a high social status, and whatever else it may be. But when people’s hearts are engaged with a massive psychosocial transformation throughout society towards alleviating the needless suffering caused by hunger and poverty, then even the billionaire is likely to become involved in redistributing resources to the starving and destitute millions, leading to a preliminary degree of detachment from that individual’s pursuit of wealth and other materialistic interests. Eventually, once an individual becomes emotionally and spiritually detached from the pursuit of material gain and power in all its guises, then everything that surrounds them will be unconsciously recognised as the commons, and treated in due measure.
The implications are endless over time, for if we could personify the existence of the commons then it would beg humanity to live more simply, and become aware of the destruction that human beings are inflicting upon the earth through mass patterns of unsustainable consumption. The more complex life becomes in a divided, demoralised and commercialised modern society, the less people are likely to care about the state of the environment, or the commons in general. To live simply with less wants and material needs therefore requires a worldwide awakening of the heart, because the engaged heart always calls for simplicity through joy, detachment, harmlessness and right human relationship. In these small observations we can merely begin to perceive how detachment is a great ally to the commons in all its forms, and how the principle of sharing will bring about that inner detachment en masse through a newfound joie de vivre that will affect everyone, from the very richest to the least privileged individual.
Click link for diagram:
issuu.com/stwr/docs/diagram_-_insert_before_or_after_pa
In contemplating the inner and outer dimensions of world transformation as encapsulated in the diagram above, it should be clear that a very different kind of education will result from sharing the world’s resources, one that stems from the freeing of millions of people to experience the joyfulness of simply being alive. Moreover, it is an education that will benefit everyone regardless of nationality, background or social position, because its origins lie within the awareness of the human heart—and there is only one Heart, one Humanity in the final analysis. And it is through that joy, through that inclusive awareness and love, that the individual is led to be harmless in their personal relationships and everyday activities. A harmlessness that is expressed through selfless service to others and reverence for all that lives and evolves within this manifested world and beyond. A harmlessness that can also be defined by its compatibility with the commons in its broadest of expressions, however long it may take to realise this state of awareness over succeeding generations, and from lifetime to lifetime as far as each individual is concerned. And it is through the combined expression of harmlessness by all peoples in all areas of life, that consciousness can expand until the laws of the commons begin to govern our social and economic affairs. Perhaps that is when the occurrence of wars between nations will naturally come to an end—even the concept of war itself, if we dare to anticipate such an eventuality in the time ahead.
- Read more at:
www.sharing.org/information-centre/reports/commons-humanity