Post by Peter on Nov 5, 2010 8:19:08 GMT -5
Nov 5, 2010 0:38:48 GMT -5 @michaelsees said:
I a sharing with no other motives but to share and he beauty of sharing is everything gets balance perfectly when you share "Gets Balanced"...just like that eh? Like magic. But what exactly is the mechanism for that balancing? The devil is in the details.
This sort of links back to something I was talking about a while ago - money as a spiritual asset. And the question of how various exchanges - such as healing, teaching, etc are balanced.
This is all just my opinion and how I see it, so do please fire in with alternatives if it doesn't ring true for you.
I tried finding something online about enegetic exchange, but all the pages that where spiritually related were more about etheric/healing energy (and featured phrases like "Quantum leap in conciousness") rather tha discussing any sort of more mundane psychological payoff. The most helpful thing I could find was a wikipedia article about Transactional Analysis.
Some transactions are easy to follow:
* Buy a burger. You get the burger, the seller gets the money.
Some are more difficult, like McDonalds are giving a way free balloons at the door. But of course they're not plain ballons, they've got the McDonald's arch on them so...
* You (or your children) get the balloon, McDonalds get free advertising as you walk around with the balloon.
Spritual teachers again not obvious, but the way I see it:
* You get the teaching, the teacher gets respect, attention, gratitude, possibly looked after in some form.
In helping someone who has asked for help:
*The asking IS a form of giving. It's in asking for help that energy is transferred to the helper, and returned in the form of help.
I'm amused when someone gives help that hasn't been asked for and is then put-out that the recipient is not sufficiently "grateful". Similarly expecting thanks after giving money to a beggar in the street - were they giving money so that they'd be thanked, or because the beggar needed it?
Free Stuff
The problem with something that's free (or very cheap) is that the recipient attributes a low value to it. If you pick up a painting for 50p in a car boot sale, you won't give it the same...respect perhaps... as one you've spend £1000 on. If someone gives you a book that they were "chucking out anyway", then it has a different value to one that's bought with "I saw this in the bookstore and thought of you".
There is a suggestion that because this cheap thing is viewed (at some level) as being worth-less, that the recipient is actually prevented from gaining the full benefit of it. Whatever that might be, a massage, a teaching, a book, food. This blockage could be seen in spritual/karmic terms as a failure to pay for what something is ( or should be) worth.
Of course, sometimes you find a "bargin" and that's great. In those circumstances, the effort of finding the thing is included in cost price - it's just not financial, it's time and skill. See search and information costs.
Stolen Stuff
To steal something attracts negative karma. To then give it to someone else (with the associated transaction-return of gratitude) just increases that karmic burden. That's how I see it. Of course, the nit picking then starts with "it's not really stealing, I'm doing them a favour they just can't see it".
Having said that, I do think that knowledge has it's own existence and seeks to be known. That's why finding a book left on the train can be just as enjoyable as one you've bought yourself. Of course, the expectation (at some level?) is perhaps that you'll leave the book for the next person to read.