On Charity and Generosity

Seoul, South Korea

The hand is coming out to help. There are multiple stories and parables about biting the hand that feeds, but where is the story about biting the hand that helps?

There are also those who say that when their life is in danger, they do not care who is coming to help them, regardless of race, color, religion, orientation, gender, or anything in between. Yet for a brief moment when the helping hand comes near, there is a brief hesitation.

The person with the outstretched arm offering guidance, advice, or counsel retracts their hand. They ponder the meaning of it all. They question if there is any real benefit. Will the person waiting for their assistance use it for something productive, or will they use it to continue their own destructive behaviors and make poor usage of others' time and energy?

This is a question that can only be answered by trying. Once we turn pessimistic about aid and assistance, we lose track of the ideal and the goal that we set out to achieve from the beginning. Our goal is not only to give one person a hand out. Our goal is to live in a world where handouts will be unnecessary, but before we achieve the ideal we must confront the situations of daily reality. 

There comes a moment when we must combine compassion with cleverness and wisdom. We must use our intelligence and our sense of human decency to bring aid and comfort to those around us. Giving money to someone who begs can often lead to catastrophic consequences. Aiding someone's destructive habits are by no means part of the ideal.

Giving kind words to someone who is not seeking them can often lead to someone becoming uncomfortable and irritated with what was meant to be a gesture of warmth and divine love.

There comes a point in life when the person with the outstretched arm must realize that their intentions might not always come with open and welcome arms. Even if someone is in need of something they will not always accept it or even know they are in need of it.

Let us use our intelligence to determine who will value our actions the most, and who will ignore our kindness? Who will use an act of gratitude as a tool to achieve something greater and more productive for the Earth, and who will use it to only enhance their own selfishness or troll-like behavior.

Let our charity become a combination of the mind and the heart. Try our best to make the strongest decisions possible. For if both the mind and the heart are not strong, they cannot achieve their mission. They cannot contribute to the removal of destruction and the promotion of peace in the world.

Let us use our generosity for the productivity of human society and the protection of the Earth. Let us use our resources to help those in need without bringing a single unwanted emotion to another. Let us find ways to solve conflicts in the most peaceful means possible and not trample a single living thing if we can do so.

Whether one shares a token of fortune or a token of wisdom with someone, they are sharing productivity all the same. They are sharing kindness, but in different forms. They are attempting to contribute to a greater form of goodness for the planet Earth, and it can be done by every single human being.

Ask yourself, where is your charity going? Ask yourself, who is going to benefit the most from this action? Ask yourself, before sending this message, how will the other person react?

Let us use our creativity, social understanding, and passion for helping humanity to spread the most pure messages of charity and generosity the human mind can conjure. Let us begin now.

World Peace: Do Not Avoid Conflict, Avoid Destruction

Newport, RI, USA

As long as humans walk the streets conflict will happen. Just as a marble rolls across the floor, it is bound to collide with another object or lose momentum. Gandhi promoted the idea that the removal of conflict does not equal peace, for peace has to exist in not only the external world, but also in the mind. This plan was incorporated into the thinking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the heart of the American Civil Rights Era. 

If we are to walk the streets, will we not feel the looming tower as it begins to fall? Will we not have to run from danger? Will we not become the danger ourselves? Perhaps there are many humans or creatures that would want to avoid the sight of you. Are they right to do so? Or are they wrong? 

The answer to that question resides in the deeds that you do and the emotions that you show. 

Let us love all, but let us walk forward without letting anyone hold us back. Let us look upward without letting anyone hold us down. Stand up for our rights, but do no harm in the ideal. Share kindness, but also share fairness. When someone tries to bring injustice upon you, stand tall and do not back down.

The wars will rage, both from the fire of a tank and from the bone-chilling call of harsh words. Each sound creates an impact on the life of someone. 

It is our responsibility to know the power that our abilities can achieve. Let us harness this power for greatness and for kindness and prosperity. 

Let us not scorn those who walk a different path in life, for remember, in their eyes we are the ones who are out of step. Let us not look downward on those with different aims, ambitions, and intentions, as long as the ultimate goal is to do no harm. 

At the same time, let us confront those who are unaware of how their actions make an impact on the lives of others. Let us confront them..but not out of anger...out of love. 

The truest forms of education are those that allow someone to love in a different way. What is in the meaning of the word love? 

Peace is a pathway to love, for love is all there is. Peace is the end goal of human civilization, for it will leave the Earth in a state of maximum excellence, where the minds of humanity are in complete connection with the great state of love, where the cosmos, the Earth, and all ideas are united by a single bond of excellence. 

Let us stand tall against those who wish to do us harm. Let us not accept their destruction. Let us deny them, but only so we can open the door, shine the light on the pathway to Peace, and let us promote a world and civilization of the Supreme.

Peace. Love. Kindness. Fairness. 

The first step on the pathway is yours.