Corporate Greed @ MindSay 
Pneumonia strikes me down - and it really sets me straight at the same time!
Another of the "Musings In The Garden", from the Caretaker - that's me!
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Offered with much love... from the garden!
Yesterday I was going to RANT! I did a bit when I was at work and when I got home but I just didn't put it down in written form!
I was going to paint a picture for you all - of the stupidity of corporate greed and the way it hurts us all in the end!
A series of things happened at work yesterday and they really got me thinking!
First, while busy working away at the processing plant I had a lovely epiphany;
I began to fully understand where greed comes from and why corporations and those that lead them do what they do.
I came to understand it comes from the seat of fear;
Those that work within the anals of corporations and the very corporate institutions themselves are built on fear.
The fear that there is not enough to go around.
And because they are driven by this fear of not being able to get enough for themselves they set up a perspective that makes the world appear as if this is TRUTH.
If you or I buy into that same fear (for these guys have to have the other side of the coin to make the picture real and complete) If we accept that these corporations are "BAD" and "MEAN" and "GREEDY" then we all participate in creating a world rife with this awkward imbalance!
It's not necessary to play into this game and yet for a brief moment yesterday all sorts of examples came thundering down upon me and I almost got caught in the polarized thinking patterns that support that world once again.
Not long after my epiphany of understanding that those that appear greedy - like large corporations as an example - are really sad souls who "know not what they do" ( a very old quote from the Christed one) and are driven by the fear that seems to be engulfing the world in which we live, I was given the opportunity to apply a new approach and experience a freedom from the old patterned way of thnking about these poor mis-guided souls.
But in order to accomplish this task apparently I had to beat myself up a little and am now in physical pain with a bout of pneumonia-like symptoms ( and a huge pain in my lung just above my heart - how very appropriate! nudge nudge, wink wink!) that has me home from work today as I find a way to clear the blockages - because it is time to do so and move into a new way of approaching these limiting beliefs and the anger that is wrongly directed. (I've learned in retrospect!) I wonder how many other people find themselves in this dilema - where you bring sickness upon your own self when confronted with strong emotions of anger and frustration and have no idea of how to move beyond it. No solutions, feeling as if that's just the way it is and one must simply live with it! That feeling of stuckness is what brings blockages and physical pain to our physical bodies!
A huge resounding NO comes up from the core of my being - for I know it is possible to move beyond the point of thinking I have no power to change the world. Instead I have learned in the past 24 hours that I have a most incredible ability to change the world in which we live - AND SO DO YOU - "for this, and many other things you too can do!" (does that quote sound familiar to my friends out there?) You need only but to try! You need only but to ask yourself; "How could I approach this situation differently?" and then without judgement or "conditions" if you wait patiently - you'll be amazed for in fact the answer - the solution - will come to you! That is what I learned.
That is the lesson I was presented with and as I move now beyond the anger and frustration and attempt to heal the congested heart that pains from such a violent emotional assault I understand all too well how my anger toward those corporate greed machines and their lackeys and all my judgements of them simply adds to my own personal discomfort - for an assault of emotional anger against them is ultimately an assault against my very self!
Because ultimately WE ARE ALL ONE! And so in order to prevent myself further damage to my own well being I pleaded with the guardian angels that hover near me always to help me see through the smokescreen of my judgemental attitude and appreciate, feel compassion for even, the poor corporate souls who do desperately believe there isn't enough to go around.
It is one of the saddest of human endeavors, really, to chase the money those that fear being poor get involved in. For it is a never ending cycle - and for them there will never be enough - even when they've aquired more in one acquisition than anyone could earn in their lifetimes! And if you only knew what these people do with their money - (eegads I won't even go there!) the money that was yours that you in turn gave to them so that you could have a piece of their pie - a miniscule sliver of what it is they have. And yet in so doing you too buy into the belief that there is not enough for aren't you also driven somehow to have more and more and more? Isn't that what you really think you want? A piece of what huge companies and their executives have? And yet have you actually received any lasting satisfaction from that acquisition yourself - or have you found yourself feeling as if you need more still, not long after the one desire was met?
It's really NOT human nature to fall into this trap! Honest! But what IS human nature is to believe there's no other way out of the trap! The trap itself is in using the same thinking that created the problem in the first place to apply to and correct it - this is an insanity, (google Albert Einstein - he said this many times - and hey - he was a genious, even if you don't fully believe me) and that is the "RAT RACE" many of us find ourselves trapped within.
There are other ways to look at things - other perspectives can be arrived at that don't have to bring forward hatred, resentment, envy or anger! The opportunity is there for us all to move beyond these things and see that we are all in this together and we can move beyond these old bad habits and allow the world to operate in it's more natural state! The natural state is a state of cooperation with a natural flow of energy that provides for each and every one of us! Watch the animals and you will see that this activity is in place for them. Birds flit from tree to plant to feeder knowing what they need is there for the taking. They do not fret about such things, they simply experience their birdness in it's entirety. While we humans seem to subvert our own best intentions by beating ourselves up thinking we're not good enough and that there really isn't enough - that some must suffer because this is the case! (Even the World Bank seems to believe this is true!)
BALDERDASH!
Nature, natural happenings and the world at large, from my perspective, has proven to me this is far from the case!
My job now is to find ways to explain this to others without beating up those corporate people who helped me see this with such clarity and wonder, without beating myself up and bringing pain and fatique to my physical experience, and without beating up any who might hear what it is I am saying. I don't wish to pound this idea into anyone's head - I only wish to light a faint spark of understanding, to begin a tiny question in your being; "Is there another way to do this?" Ask your own guardian angels if that is what you tune in to when in need. Ask your God for those of you who are intimately involved with that mode of thinking. Ask your heart - "Does life have to be like this?"
And ask yourself also; "Do I see a pattern here?" Are there not many examples of this happening in our world at this time in our magnificent history?
In the Middle East people could be asking themselves right now; "Must war and hatred be the only way to cope with the assault each "victim" feels is being projected to their beliefs?", ask also; "What alternatives are there?" For to be certain there are alternatives and it is time now to ask that those alternatives be made evident to humanity as a whole. It is time to heal ourselves and our pains and our angers and by so doing heal the world in which we live!
This is an example of the "coming of the christ" that many speak of from a christian perspective but it's not what people thought it would be. It is the awakening of the people - seeing themselves as the embodiment of spirit that they are - each and every one of us are intimately connected with spirit and spirit is what drives us to where we are right now on this incredible planet on which we all reside.
The whales and dolphins have been trying to tell us this story for quite some time. The enchanted garden - our beautiful world - is sending the messages to those ready to hear and more will awaken with time! I am blessed that I am learning to see and hear, that I have had the hints and nudges that allow me to appreciate there are others ways to tackle the problems without destroying the world in which we live - without blowing ourselves off the face of earth, without allowing hatred, envy and avarice to permeate our beings.
By healing my self - I heal the world! When many more do the same, in concert, we will awake to find a beautiful new world placed before us, for we are the creators of our world - we create our reality! And if when we look in our mirrors we find disatisfaction with the image seen, we simply need to choose something else - for breaking the mirror achieves nothing - THAT FACT we have been teaching ourselve since war and fear and hatred for fellow human began! Move beyond the image in the mirror that brings disatisfaction with determination to find a new solution. When you think you've found it - work with that and check again, the image in the mirror - if it still isn't to your liking; simply try again. Do not fear, do not beat yourself up - simply ask again what solutions might assist in creating a finer image that can please your own soul. Soon you will find the image relaxes and your world improves - and the world of those around you will in due course as well!
This is already a long post and so I won't even delve into how this all came about yesterday - the details are really unimportant really, other than this incredible undertanding I've been handed on what seems to me a silver platter! But I will tell you - I am far happier to have moved beyond that patterned way of thinking about these things to allow myself the freedom to achieve my best and highest purpose in this life. My hope is others will have the same good fortune befall them with less pain and strife than what I assailed my own physical body with in order to see the light!
I AM confident Human Evolution continues... And It is a beautiful thing; in it's pain and it's grace and it's simplicity! That is what makes it hard to see at first but what gives it its' beauty in the end!
Bless us all - EVERY ONE! I am so glad to share this with you!
(link back for visitors from Our Enchanted Garden )
(link back for visitors from Our Enchanted Garden )
Offered with much love... from the garden!
Yesterday I was going to RANT! I did a bit when I was at work and when I got home but I just didn't put it down in written form!
I was going to paint a picture for you all - of the stupidity of corporate greed and the way it hurts us all in the end!
A series of things happened at work yesterday and they really got me thinking!
First, while busy working away at the processing plant I had a lovely epiphany;
I began to fully understand where greed comes from and why corporations and those that lead them do what they do.
I came to understand it comes from the seat of fear;
Those that work within the anals of corporations and the very corporate institutions themselves are built on fear.
The fear that there is not enough to go around.
And because they are driven by this fear of not being able to get enough for themselves they set up a perspective that makes the world appear as if this is TRUTH.
If you or I buy into that same fear (for these guys have to have the other side of the coin to make the picture real and complete) If we accept that these corporations are "BAD" and "MEAN" and "GREEDY" then we all participate in creating a world rife with this awkward imbalance!
It's not necessary to play into this game and yet for a brief moment yesterday all sorts of examples came thundering down upon me and I almost got caught in the polarized thinking patterns that support that world once again.
Not long after my epiphany of understanding that those that appear greedy - like large corporations as an example - are really sad souls who "know not what they do" ( a very old quote from the Christed one) and are driven by the fear that seems to be engulfing the world in which we live, I was given the opportunity to apply a new approach and experience a freedom from the old patterned way of thnking about these poor mis-guided souls.
But in order to accomplish this task apparently I had to beat myself up a little and am now in physical pain with a bout of pneumonia-like symptoms ( and a huge pain in my lung just above my heart - how very appropriate! nudge nudge, wink wink!) that has me home from work today as I find a way to clear the blockages - because it is time to do so and move into a new way of approaching these limiting beliefs and the anger that is wrongly directed. (I've learned in retrospect!) I wonder how many other people find themselves in this dilema - where you bring sickness upon your own self when confronted with strong emotions of anger and frustration and have no idea of how to move beyond it. No solutions, feeling as if that's just the way it is and one must simply live with it! That feeling of stuckness is what brings blockages and physical pain to our physical bodies!
A huge resounding NO comes up from the core of my being - for I know it is possible to move beyond the point of thinking I have no power to change the world. Instead I have learned in the past 24 hours that I have a most incredible ability to change the world in which we live - AND SO DO YOU - "for this, and many other things you too can do!" (does that quote sound familiar to my friends out there?) You need only but to try! You need only but to ask yourself; "How could I approach this situation differently?" and then without judgement or "conditions" if you wait patiently - you'll be amazed for in fact the answer - the solution - will come to you! That is what I learned.
That is the lesson I was presented with and as I move now beyond the anger and frustration and attempt to heal the congested heart that pains from such a violent emotional assault I understand all too well how my anger toward those corporate greed machines and their lackeys and all my judgements of them simply adds to my own personal discomfort - for an assault of emotional anger against them is ultimately an assault against my very self!
Because ultimately WE ARE ALL ONE! And so in order to prevent myself further damage to my own well being I pleaded with the guardian angels that hover near me always to help me see through the smokescreen of my judgemental attitude and appreciate, feel compassion for even, the poor corporate souls who do desperately believe there isn't enough to go around.
It is one of the saddest of human endeavors, really, to chase the money those that fear being poor get involved in. For it is a never ending cycle - and for them there will never be enough - even when they've aquired more in one acquisition than anyone could earn in their lifetimes! And if you only knew what these people do with their money - (eegads I won't even go there!) the money that was yours that you in turn gave to them so that you could have a piece of their pie - a miniscule sliver of what it is they have. And yet in so doing you too buy into the belief that there is not enough for aren't you also driven somehow to have more and more and more? Isn't that what you really think you want? A piece of what huge companies and their executives have? And yet have you actually received any lasting satisfaction from that acquisition yourself - or have you found yourself feeling as if you need more still, not long after the one desire was met?
It's really NOT human nature to fall into this trap! Honest! But what IS human nature is to believe there's no other way out of the trap! The trap itself is in using the same thinking that created the problem in the first place to apply to and correct it - this is an insanity, (google Albert Einstein - he said this many times - and hey - he was a genious, even if you don't fully believe me) and that is the "RAT RACE" many of us find ourselves trapped within.
There are other ways to look at things - other perspectives can be arrived at that don't have to bring forward hatred, resentment, envy or anger! The opportunity is there for us all to move beyond these things and see that we are all in this together and we can move beyond these old bad habits and allow the world to operate in it's more natural state! The natural state is a state of cooperation with a natural flow of energy that provides for each and every one of us! Watch the animals and you will see that this activity is in place for them. Birds flit from tree to plant to feeder knowing what they need is there for the taking. They do not fret about such things, they simply experience their birdness in it's entirety. While we humans seem to subvert our own best intentions by beating ourselves up thinking we're not good enough and that there really isn't enough - that some must suffer because this is the case! (Even the World Bank seems to believe this is true!)
BALDERDASH!
Nature, natural happenings and the world at large, from my perspective, has proven to me this is far from the case!
My job now is to find ways to explain this to others without beating up those corporate people who helped me see this with such clarity and wonder, without beating myself up and bringing pain and fatique to my physical experience, and without beating up any who might hear what it is I am saying. I don't wish to pound this idea into anyone's head - I only wish to light a faint spark of understanding, to begin a tiny question in your being; "Is there another way to do this?" Ask your own guardian angels if that is what you tune in to when in need. Ask your God for those of you who are intimately involved with that mode of thinking. Ask your heart - "Does life have to be like this?"
And ask yourself also; "Do I see a pattern here?" Are there not many examples of this happening in our world at this time in our magnificent history?
In the Middle East people could be asking themselves right now; "Must war and hatred be the only way to cope with the assault each "victim" feels is being projected to their beliefs?", ask also; "What alternatives are there?" For to be certain there are alternatives and it is time now to ask that those alternatives be made evident to humanity as a whole. It is time to heal ourselves and our pains and our angers and by so doing heal the world in which we live!
This is an example of the "coming of the christ" that many speak of from a christian perspective but it's not what people thought it would be. It is the awakening of the people - seeing themselves as the embodiment of spirit that they are - each and every one of us are intimately connected with spirit and spirit is what drives us to where we are right now on this incredible planet on which we all reside.
The whales and dolphins have been trying to tell us this story for quite some time. The enchanted garden - our beautiful world - is sending the messages to those ready to hear and more will awaken with time! I am blessed that I am learning to see and hear, that I have had the hints and nudges that allow me to appreciate there are others ways to tackle the problems without destroying the world in which we live - without blowing ourselves off the face of earth, without allowing hatred, envy and avarice to permeate our beings.
By healing my self - I heal the world! When many more do the same, in concert, we will awake to find a beautiful new world placed before us, for we are the creators of our world - we create our reality! And if when we look in our mirrors we find disatisfaction with the image seen, we simply need to choose something else - for breaking the mirror achieves nothing - THAT FACT we have been teaching ourselve since war and fear and hatred for fellow human began! Move beyond the image in the mirror that brings disatisfaction with determination to find a new solution. When you think you've found it - work with that and check again, the image in the mirror - if it still isn't to your liking; simply try again. Do not fear, do not beat yourself up - simply ask again what solutions might assist in creating a finer image that can please your own soul. Soon you will find the image relaxes and your world improves - and the world of those around you will in due course as well!
This is already a long post and so I won't even delve into how this all came about yesterday - the details are really unimportant really, other than this incredible undertanding I've been handed on what seems to me a silver platter! But I will tell you - I am far happier to have moved beyond that patterned way of thinking about these things to allow myself the freedom to achieve my best and highest purpose in this life. My hope is others will have the same good fortune befall them with less pain and strife than what I assailed my own physical body with in order to see the light!
I AM confident Human Evolution continues... And It is a beautiful thing; in it's pain and it's grace and it's simplicity! That is what makes it hard to see at first but what gives it its' beauty in the end!
Bless us all - EVERY ONE! I am so glad to share this with you!
(link back for visitors from Our Enchanted Garden )
Carpool blues?
Story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1525590,00.html
Bus firm takes car sharer to court
Kim Willsher in Paris
Monday July 11, 2005
The Guardian
They might have been congratulated for their "green" efforts in an area of heavy air pollution.
Instead a group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of "an act of unfair and parasitical competition".
The women, who live in Moselle and work five days a week at EU offices in Luxembourg, are being taken to court by Transports Schiocchet Excursions, which runs a service along the route. It wants the women to be fined and their cars confiscated.
Two years ago a business tribunal threw out the company's case. It is now pursuing the women in a higher court, claiming that their action has cost it €2m (£1.4m).
The women explained that for many years cleaners used the TSE line for the 40-minute ride across the border, which cost them €110 (£76) a month.
"Using our cars is quicker and at least twice as cheap. And on the bus we didn't have the right to eat or even to speak," said Martine Bourguignon. Odette Friedmann added: "In the evening instead of coming to get us at 9.30pm the bus would arrive at 10.30pm. If you made any comment to the driver you'd get a mouthful of abuse."
"It's absurd and ridiculous," said the women's lawyer, Cécile Klein-Schmitt. "I don't see how any magistrate can find any legal basis for this case."
TSE is also suing the women's employer, Onet-Luxembourg. "They've basically accused us of inciting the car-sharing scheme when we have nothing to do with the method of transport used by our staff," said director Frédéric Sirerol.
The court case will be heard in January next year.
I know some of you will make snide remarks about the French after reading this. Go ahead if it makes you feel better.
I'll just make snide remarks against corporations with monopolies -- which include bus lines.
Bus firm takes car sharer to court
Kim Willsher in Paris
Monday July 11, 2005
The Guardian
They might have been congratulated for their "green" efforts in an area of heavy air pollution.
Instead a group of French cleaning ladies who organised a car-sharing scheme to get to work are being taken to court by a coach company which accuses them of "an act of unfair and parasitical competition".
The women, who live in Moselle and work five days a week at EU offices in Luxembourg, are being taken to court by Transports Schiocchet Excursions, which runs a service along the route. It wants the women to be fined and their cars confiscated.
Two years ago a business tribunal threw out the company's case. It is now pursuing the women in a higher court, claiming that their action has cost it €2m (£1.4m).
The women explained that for many years cleaners used the TSE line for the 40-minute ride across the border, which cost them €110 (£76) a month.
"Using our cars is quicker and at least twice as cheap. And on the bus we didn't have the right to eat or even to speak," said Martine Bourguignon. Odette Friedmann added: "In the evening instead of coming to get us at 9.30pm the bus would arrive at 10.30pm. If you made any comment to the driver you'd get a mouthful of abuse."
"It's absurd and ridiculous," said the women's lawyer, Cécile Klein-Schmitt. "I don't see how any magistrate can find any legal basis for this case."
TSE is also suing the women's employer, Onet-Luxembourg. "They've basically accused us of inciting the car-sharing scheme when we have nothing to do with the method of transport used by our staff," said director Frédéric Sirerol.
The court case will be heard in January next year.
I know some of you will make snide remarks about the French after reading this. Go ahead if it makes you feel better.
I'll just make snide remarks against corporations with monopolies -- which include bus lines.
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