Giving Is The True Heart of Wealth.

25/07/09

The outer journey started and lead to my inner adventure.
Last night I read from a book that I had just purchased, it was a self help type of book that for some reason I had been drawn to read. What attracted me to the book was listening to the author being interviewed on a TV program in New Zealand. It is very rare for me to read any other books than books on the teachings of Eckankar.

I am very careful with what I feed into my consciousness because I do not choose to enter another person’s reality.
I headed for bed having read a chapter from this book. I decided to break from my routine of reading only from ECK books before sleep and said inwardly to myself if this book is not for me to read then show me.

And so the inner journey began:
I was helping my parent’s tidy one of their inner homes because they were about to journey around the countryside to sell their wares to others
(A key about buying into other peoples thoughts)

I noted with interest that some of their wares were old collectibles!!!
(Past knowledge, being sold or presented as new - back to the book)

I have finished helping my parents and was about to move on. While resting on a couch I could see the main road down this long drive way. I watched in dismay as these youths turned up the drive way, the first two turned with care but the last two almost didn't make it when they chose to turn suddenly in front of the oncoming cars.
(There are lessons to be learnt when you suddenly take a turn to follow others blindly without giving much thought to others in your pat - you cut them off)

The youths arrived at the house and approach me for money. They asked me if I would sponsor them. They said that they were raising funds for a holiday.
I hesitated on giving any money because of the way some of youths chose to drive so carelessly (Another lesson) but then I decided to give them my last twenty dollars that I had in my purse.
(Holding on limits ones own wealthy state) So I gave the youths my last dollar and said to them, "Promise me that you will attend a defensive drive class because some of you nearly didn't make it here" and so it was agreed.

It occurred to me that helping the students to gain their freedom gave me my freedom and so I too headed off on my holiday adventure.
I was driving along a road that appeared on one level to be flat and yet it felt like I was driving up hill. In front of me appeared this building. It was an incredible structure of awesome beauty.
It looked like the top of a lighthouse with all its huge glass windows and huge arched doorways, there was this long hall like structure running along the right hand side. The long structure of the halls roof appeared like the ribs of a fish. This area was open to the sky. Looking at it from a distance the building appeared like a giant question mark.

I kept on driving towards the building when a narrow road appeared on the left hand side, so I decided to drive around the front of the building. You had this odd feeling on having nothing underneath you.
I parked my car and got out and I wondered where the heck am I? 369 degrees around me was the ocean, I was standing on what appeared like solid ground and yet the whole building and car park felt like it was suspended in mid air high above this massive ocean. The view was beyond description it was so beautiful.

Some people were lying on the ground looking skywards while others stood in front of this almost invisible wall of glass; the area was shape like a huge circle.
Once again there was this strange feeling of standing on flat ground and yet still moving upwards. I got out my camera to take some photos (Mind Maps) it was then that I noticed a man wearing a formal suit, he had darker skin than mine and I thought he was a Maori Elder, a keeper or a protector...

The Elder was explaining to this other tourist about the scared nature of the ocean below. I moved closer to the edge there was a feeling of being... I then looked down into this mighty ocean; the feeling it was so unnerving to see something so far below you. It was then I saw the humpback whales frolicking in the ocean below me.

I wanted to take a photo of this amazing sight; it was when I held the camera up to my eye that my son appeared beside me.
I knew how to take good photos and store them in my mind. It was a nature ability that I had to record my inner images and adventures. I was about to be taught a lesson.

I held the camera to my eye but then noticed the back of the camera was missing!! I became distracted from the view as I tried to work out what how the camera worked on the inside. I could see all the workings of the camera and started to poke around. Some parts of the camera when touched altered and distorted the image.

My son’s voice brought me back to reality, he said to me, "Mum just take the photo, do not worry about how the camera works, just take the photo"
And so I did. It was at this point in time that I realized the back of the camera was in my purse that lay on the ground some distance behind me. I looked and saw my bag; I held out my hand and said, "Come" instantly the bag was with me.
(I question myself as to why I still felt the need to have something that I know longer needed in my life - back to the book)

The mind is very clever but it is not our master. I knew already what I knew and yet I had chosen to read from another’s limit knowledge.
To do so nearly stopped me from taking the photo because I was being distracted by the back of the camera being missing and exposing its working to me. It was a mind trap, you see we know what we know. I had already been taught to fine tune my ability to take and record wonderful inner photos by the ECK Masters.

Each photo I am able to store within me. When I agree to be taken beyond my comfort zone, I can take photos and record what I do and see. The inner journey expands and keeps on expanding, without any limits.
The mind tells us we are poor, when we are not. The mind creates distractions to keep it within what it knows. My journey began when I gave away my last twenty dollar note so others could take a holiday. The gift was returned to me in the form of me taking my own holiday I ended up viewing the humpback whales in a place not here in this world.

How wonderful is the journey through life for you?
For me it is our ability to love and to feel the love. That is what this journey is all about.
Loving HU
Tryphena
This is my personal journey and may not truly reflect the teachings of Eckankar