June 2015

A man who claims to know what is good for others is dangerous.  When you deceive yourself that you work for the good of all it makes matters worse, for you should not be guided by your own ideas of what is good for others. Whatever you do for your own sake and ideas accumulates and becomes explosive; one day it goes off and plays havoc with you and your world.  It is not doing good that comes first, but ceasing to hurt, not adding to suffering.  Pleasing others is no help.

You merely talk of helping others, but have you ever helped, really helped a single man?  Have you ever put one soul beyond the need of further help?  Can you give a man character, based on full realization of his duties and opportunities at least, if not on full realisation of his true being?  When you do not know what is good for yourself, how can you know what is good for others? Repeated help is no help at all.  Do not talk of helping another, unless you can put him beyond the need of help.

You are responsible only for what you can change.  What you can change is only your attitude.  There lies your responsibility.  If you can change yourself you will find that no other change is needed.  To change the picture you merely change the film, you do not attack the cinema screen!  It is not that you are indifferent; all the sufferings of mankind do not prevent you from enjoying your next meal.  The witness is not indifferent.  He is the fullness of understanding and compassion.  Only as the witness you can help another.

When you see sorrow and suffering, just be with it, lay bare its roots – helping to understand is real help. For yourself you need nothing.  You are pure giving, beginning-less, endless, and inexhaustible… Do not rush into activity.

Neither learning nor action can really help.  What you can do is limited.  The self-alone is unlimited.  Give limitlessly – of your-self.  All else you can give in small measures only.  You alone are immeasurable.  To help is your very nature. Daily life is a life of action.  Whether you like it or not, you must function.  Even when you eat and drink you help your body.

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