Whoever has the money or whoever controls the money has the
power and is thus in ultimate control.
The people and governments are not in control of it anymore. They have
lost it. THE PROBLEM OF MONEY, is more
THE PROBLEM WITH US and not with money which is a tool in our hands for
our own development materially as well as spiritually.
As I think about human development during the last few
centuries and the situation in which we find ourselves in at this moment 2013,
I cannot but see it all as a war between the good and bad forces in this world.
As I try to live and think as a Disciple I am aware of this war between the
White Brotherhood and the Dark Brotherhood; the one leading us on into the New World
and the other trying to prevent it from happening and threatening to drag as
back into oblivion. I see this fight
going on around me everywhere; in politics, religion, science, finance, art,
education, psychology, sport and so on. When I try to talk about it, I find
that people do not see things in the same light and thus, I think that there is
a huge misconception amongst the ordinary and even educated people in the world
about what is really going on in the world. People are forced to come up with
answers and solutions based on ignorance.
The world has a problem with money. The best example is the
USA which is like a mirror to the rest of the world when it comes to money and
materialism, the American dream. What is happening in the USA, with national
debt of 16.4 trillion dollars, will happen in the rest of the world or have an
effect on the rest of the world. The financial situation of the world is in
dire straits. We do not know where we are going with all that dept. There is no
way that we can ever pay it back, because it never existed in the first place.
The above can be seen playing of in countries all over the
world notably, Greece, Spain, Italy. A lot of countries in Europe are fast on
their way to the same situation. It is going to become really bad.
The materialistic forces are driving us all to saturation
point….. Is it going to help us see the folly of materialism and open our eyes
so that we can build a new world based on different values; spiritual values,
instead of material values? Or shall we just go on like before and kick it down
the road?
Money is the new name of the Devil for most of us, [actually
for humanity as a whole], but for a small minority of us it is actually their
God.
First we must learn to do things for their spiritual
benefit, not only for ourselves but for the rest of humanity as well, instead
of the financial compensation involved. We must do the right things for the
right reasons. We are doing everything for money, instead of using money to do
the right things in life. If we can learn to use it in the right way, and
distribute it in the right way, money can become a spiritual asset that can
change the world. We must free this force from the grip of material darkness
and let it enlighten the way of spirit in the same way as we are lighting up
the world with electric light, country to country, city to city, street to
street and house to house.
The USA has always been like a showcase to the world where I
grew up and because the USA plays such a big role in World Affairs and in the
Main Media here, [I lived in South Africa, New Zealand and now Australia], I
must say something about this country and the way people are being led astray
like cattle by the politicians. The people in the USA [and not only in that
country] have no idea about what is going on in their own country; they, like
us, are under the control of Hollywood and the “Ziomedia”, the new name for the
mass media, largely controlled by the Jews, according to some enlightened
people in that country, and the conspiracies theories going around on the
internet.
Before we take a look at what the Tibetan Master has said
about the ‘Problem of Money’ let us first get an idea of the global problem by
taking a look at the situation in the USA. This is the situation at the moment.
One enlightened person in the USA described the situation in the following
article:
By Michael, on February 10th, 2013
To Anyone That Believes That “Things Are Getting Better” In
America.
How can anyone not see that the U.S. economy is collapsing
all around us? It just astounds me when
people try to tell me that "everything is just fine" and that
"things are getting better" in America. Are there people out there that are really
that blind? If you want to see the
economic collapse, just open up your eyes and look around you. By almost every economic and financial
measure, the U.S. economy has been steadily declining for many years. But most Americans are so tied into "the
matrix" that they can only understand the cheerful propaganda that is
endlessly being spoon-fed to them by the mainstream media. As I have said so many times, the economic
collapse is not a single event. The
economic collapse has been happening, it is happening right now, and it will
continue to happen. Yes, there will be
times when our decline will be punctuated by moments of great crisis, but that
will be the exception rather than the rule.
A lot of people that write about "the economic collapse" hype
it up as if it will be some huge "event" that will happen very
rapidly and then once it is all over we will rebuild. Unfortunately, that is not how the real world
works. We are living in the greatest
debt bubble in the history of the world, and once it completely bursts there
will be no going back to how things were before. Right now, we are living in a "credit
card economy". As long as we can
keep borrowing more money, most people think that things are just fine. But anyone that has lived on credit cards knows
that eventually there comes a point when the game is over, and we are rapidly
approaching that point as a nation.
Have you ever been there?
Have you ever desperately hoped that you could just get one more credit
card or one more loan so that you could keep things going? At first, living on
credit can be a lot of fun. You can live
a much higher standard of living than you otherwise would be able to. But
inevitably a day of reckoning comes. If the federal government and the American
people were forced at this moment to live within their means, the U.S. economy
would immediately plunge into a depression. That is a 100% rock solid
guarantee.
But our politicians and the mainstream media continue to
perpetuate the fiction that we can live in this credit card economic fantasy
land indefinitely. And most Americans could not care less about the
future. As long as "things are
good" today, they don't really think much about what the future will hold.
As a result of our very foolish short-term thinking, we have now run up a
national debt of 16.4 trillion dollars.
It is the largest debt in the history of the world, and it has gotten
more than 23 times larger since Jimmy Carter first entered the White House. Of
course things have accelerated over the past four years. Since Barack Obama entered the White House,
the U.S. government has run a budget deficit of well over a trillion dollars
every single year, and we have stolen more than 100 million dollars from our
children and our grandchildren every single hour of every single day. It is the
biggest theft of all time. What we are
doing to our children and our grandchildren is beyond criminal. And now our
debt is at a level that most economists would consider terminal. When Barack Obama first entered the White
House, the U.S. debt to GDP ratio was under 70 percent. Today, it is up to 103 percent. We are
officially in "the danger zone".
If things really were "getting better" in America,
we would not need to borrow so much money. Our politicians are stealing from
the future in order to make the present look better. During Obama's first term, the federal
government accumulated more debt than it did under the first 42 U.S presidents
combined. That is utter insanity! If you started paying off just the new debt
that the U.S. has accumulated during the Obama administration at the rate of
one dollar per second, it would take more than 184,000 years to pay it off.
So what is the solution? Get ready to laugh. The most
prominent economic journalist in the entire country, Paul Krugman of the New
York Times, recently suggested the following in an article that he wrote
entitled "Kick That Can"... Realistically, we’re not going to resolve
our long-run fiscal issues any time soon, which is O.K. — not ideal, but
nothing terrible will happen if we don’t fix everything this year. Meanwhile,
we face the imminent threat of severe economic damage from short-term spending
cuts. So we should avoid that damage by kicking the can down the road. It’s the
responsible thing to do. You mean that we might actually do damage to the
debt-fueled economic fantasy world that we are living in if we stopped stealing
so much money from future generations?
It is horrifying to think that all that one of the "top
economic minds" in America can come up with is to "kick the can"
down the road some more. Unfortunately, neither Paul Krugman nor most of the
American people understand that our financial system is actually designed to
create government debt.
The bankers that helped create the Federal Reserve intended
to permanently enslave the U.S. government to a perpetually expanding spiral of
debt, and their plans worked. At this point, the U.S. national debt is more
than 5000 times larger than it was when the Federal Reserve was first created.
So why don't the American people understand what the Federal
Reserve system is doing to us? If nothing is done about our exploding debt, it
is only a matter of time before we reach financial oblivion. According to
Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff, the U.S. government is facing a
"present value difference between projected future spending and
revenue" of 222 trillion dollars in the years ahead. So how in the world
are we going to come up with an extra 222 trillion dollars?
But it is not just the U.S. government that is drowning in
debt. All over the United States there are state and local governments that are
on the verge of bankruptcy. Just check
out what is going on in Detroit. The
only way that most of our state and local governments can keep going at this
point is to also "kick the can" down the road some more. And of
course most of the rest of us are drowning in debt as well.
40 years ago, the total amount of debt in the U.S. economic
system (government + business + consumer) was less than 2 trillion dollars.
Today, the total amount of debt in the U.S. economic system has grown to more
than 55 trillion dollars.
Can anyone say bubble? The good news is that U.S. GDP is now
more than 12 times larger than it was 40 years ago.
The bad news is that the total amount of debt in our
financial system is now more than 30 times larger than it was 40 years ago...
At the same time that we are going into so much debt, our ability to produce
wealth continues to decline.
According to the World Bank, U.S. GDP accounted for 31.8
percent of all global economic activity in 2001. That number dropped to 21.6 percent in
2011. That is not just a decline - that
is a nightmarish freefall. We are
becoming less competitive as a nation with each passing year. In fact, the U.S. has fallen in the global
economic competitiveness rankings compiled by the World Economic Forum for four
years in a row. Most Americans don't understand this, but the United States
buys far more from the rest of the world than they buy from us each year. In 2012, we had a trade deficit of more than
500 billion dollars with the rest of the world. That means that more than 500
billion dollars that could have gone to U.S. workers and U.S. businesses went
out of the country instead.
So how does our
country survive if hundreds of billions of dollars more is flowing out of the
country than is flowing into it? Well, to make up the shortfall we go to the
countries that we sent our money to and we beg them to lend it back to us. If that doesn't work, we just print and
borrow even more money. Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of
more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the world since 1975. That is 8
trillion dollars that could have saved U.S. businesses, paid the salaries of
U.S. workers and that would have helped fund government. But instead, our
foolish policies have greatly enriched China and the oil barons of the Middle
East.
Sadly, politicians
from both political parties continue to boldly support the one world economic
agenda of the global elite. Just consider how destructive many of these
"free trade" deals have been to our economy...
When NAFTA was pushed through Congress in 1993, the United
States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars. By 2010, we had
a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.
Back in 1985, our
trade deficit with China was approximately 6 million dollars (million with a
little "m") for the entire year. In 2012, our trade deficit with
China was 315 billion dollars. That was
the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the
history of the world. In particular, our trade with China is extremely
unbalanced. Today, U.S. consumers spend
approximately 4 dollars on goods and services from China for every one dollar
that Chinese consumers spend on goods and services from the United States.
But isn't getting
cheap stuff from China good? No, because it costs us good paying jobs.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the United States is losing half a
million jobs to China every single year. Overall, more than 56,000
manufacturing facilities in the United States have been shut down since
2001. During 2010, manufacturing
facilities in the United States were shutting down at a rate of 23 per day. How can anyone say that "things are getting
better" when our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted? The truth is that there are never going to be
enough jobs in America ever again, because millions of our jobs are being sent
overseas and millions of our jobs are being lost to technology.
You won't hear this
on the news, but the percentage of the civilian labor force in the United
States that is employed has been steadily declining every single year since
2006. Younger workers have been hit particularly hard. In 2007, the unemployment rate for the 20 to
29 age bracket was about 6.5 percent.
Today, the unemployment rate for that same age group is about 13
percent. If you are under the age of 30 and you aren't living with your
parents, there is a really good chance that you are living in poverty. If you can believe it, U.S. families that
have a head of household that is under the age of 30 have a poverty rate of 37
percent.
Our economy has been
steadily bleeding huge numbers of middle class jobs, and many of those jobs
have been replaced by low paying jobs in recent years. According to one study,
60 percent of the jobs lost during the last recession were mid-wage jobs, but
58 percent of the jobs created since then have been low wage jobs. And at this
point, an astounding 53 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000
a year.
Oh, but "things
are getting better", right?
Maybe if you live on
Wall Street or if you are an employee of the federal government. But for most
families this economic decline has been a total nightmare. Median household income in America has fallen
for four consecutive years. Overall, it
has declined by over $4000 during that time span. Sometimes people forget how
good things were about a decade ago.
About three times as many new homes were sold in the United States in
2005 as were sold in 2012.
But we like to live
in denial.
In fact, a lot of
families are trying to keep up their standards of living by going into
tremendous amounts of debt. Back in 1983, the bottom 95 percent of all income
earners in the United States had 62 cents of debt for every dollar that they
earned. By 2007, that figure had soared
to $1.48. Fake it until you make it, right?
But how much debt can
our system possibly handle? Total home mortgage debt in the United States is
now about 5 times larger than it was just 20 years ago. Total credit card debt
in the United States is now more than 8 times larger than it was just 30 years
ago. We are a nation that is completely addicted to debt, but as the financial
crisis of 2008 demonstrated, all of that debt can have horrific consequences.
As the economy has
slowed in recent years, the Federal Reserve has decided that "the
solution" is to recklessly print money in an attempt to get the debt
spiral cranked up again. Have they gone overboard? You be the judge... And of course this won't
have any affect on the value of the money that you have been saving up all
these years right?
Wrong. Every single
dollar that you own is continually losing value... Overall, the value of the
U.S. dollar has declined by more than 96 percent since the Federal Reserve was
first created. As the cost of living continues to go up and wages continue to
go down, millions of American families have fallen out of the middle class and
into poverty. If you can believe it, the number of Americans on food stamps has
grown from about 17 million in the year 2000 to more than 47 million today.
But "things are
getting better", right?
Incredibly, more than
a million public school students in the United States are homeless. This is the first time that has ever happened
in our history.
But "things are
getting better", right?
There are now 20.2
million Americans that spend more than half of their incomes on housing. That represents a 46 percent increase from
2001.
But "things are
getting better", right?
In 1999, 64.1 percent
of all Americans were covered by employment-based health insurance. Today, only 55.1 percent are covered by
employment-based health insurance.
But "things are
getting better", right?
Today, more Americans
than ever have found themselves forced to turn to the federal government for
help. Overall, the federal government runs nearly 80 different
"means-tested welfare programs", and at this point more than 100
million Americans are enrolled in at least one of them. According to the U.S.
Census Bureau, 49 percent of all Americans live in a home that receives direct
monetary benefits from the federal government.
Back in 1983, less than a third of all Americans lived in a home that
received direct monetary benefits from the federal government. So is it a good
sign or a bad sign that the percentage of Americans that are financially
dependent on the federal government is at an all-time high?
And in future years
the number of Americans that are receiving benefits from the federal government
is projected to absolutely skyrocket. Back in 1965, only one out of every 50
Americans was on Medicaid. Today, one
out of every 6 Americans is on Medicaid, and things are about to get a whole
lot worse. It is being projected that
Obamacare will add 16 million more Americans to the Medicaid rolls.
If you take a look at
Medicare, things are very more sobering. As I wrote recently, it is being
projected that the number of Americans on Medicare will grow from 50.7 million in
2012 to 73.2 million in 2025. At this point, Medicare is facing unfunded
liabilities of more than 38 trillion dollars over the next 75 years. That comes to approximately $328,404 for
every single household in the United States. Are you ready to contribute your
share?
Social Security is a
complete and total nightmare as well. Right now, there are approximately 56
million Americans collecting Social Security benefits. By 2035, that number is
projected to soar to an astounding 91 million. Overall, the Social Security
system is facing a 134 trillion dollar shortfall over the next 75 years. Oh,
but don't worry because "things are getting better", right?
I honestly do not
know how anyone can look at the numbers above and come to the conclusion that
the economy is in good shape. We have accumulated the largest mountain of debt
in the history of the world, our economic infrastructure is being gutted, we
are bleeding good jobs, government dependence is at an all-time high and we are
getting poorer as a nation with each passing day. But other than that, everything is rainbows
and lollipops, right?
If you want to see
the economic collapse, just open up your eyes. And if dramatic changes are not
made quickly, things are going to get much, much worse from here. Please share
this article with as many people as possible.
Time is quickly running out and there are a whole lot of people out
there that we need to wake up while we still can.
[http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/show-this-to-anyone-that-believes-that-things-are-getting-better-in-america]
Now that we all know something about the problem of money in
the world, let’s take a look at what the Master has to say about the problem
and how we should go about handling the problem.
The Question of Money
This whole question of money is one of the greatest
difficulty at this time and also one of the utmost simplicity. The difficulty
is due to the wrong thought which, for generations, has been brought to bear
upon the problem, leading to wrong attitudes, even among the most devoted
disciples. The attitude of humanity to money has been coloured by greed, by
grasping for the lower self, by jealousy, by material desire and by the
heart-breaking need for it which—in its turn—is the result of these wrong
attitudes. These wrong attitudes lead to the disastrous economic conditions
which we find all around us. They are effects of causes which are initiated by
man himself. In the re-generation of money and in the changing of man's
attitude to it will eventually come world release. If this cannot take place,
then some dire condition will arise; money (as we know it) will vanish off the
earth and the situation will have to be met in some other way. Let us hope that
this will not be needed but that it will be possible to change the thought of
humanity where money is concerned so that it will be regarded as a great
spiritual asset, as a definite spiritual responsibility and as a means to real
world work. The custodians of money will then shoulder their responsibility
without fear and with due understanding. At present, they hold on to it through
fear of the future and distrust of each other. The key to the right expenditure
of money and to its correct use can be summed up in the following statement to
which I would ask all of you to pay attention:
As money has in the past ministered to personal and family
need, so in the future it must minister to group and world need. Each unit has,
in the past, attempted to act as a magnet and to attract to itself that which
will meet what it regards as its need—using personal activity and labour, if of
no influence or education, and financial manipulation where that was possible.
Groups in the future must act as magnets; they must see to it that they are
animated by a spirit of love. I give you a thought here which is capable of
much expansion. Need, love and magnetic power are the three things
which—consciously or unconsciously—attract money. But they must all manifest at
once. The need in the past has not always been real, though it has been felt
(such is the world glamour and illusion). The love has been selfish or unreal;
the demand for things material has been for that which is not necessary to
health or happiness. The magnetic force utilised has been, therefore, wrongly
motivated and this process—carried forward over so long a time—has led to the
present dire financial situation in the world.
By the transmutation of these factors and the expression of
their higher correspondences—through right love, right thought or meditation
and right technique—the financial requirements of the new groups and of the New
Group of World Servers will be found. I would suggest that an elaboration of
these ideas should be disseminated among all whom you know who could help. I
would ask you to ponder much on these ideas for, in the education of the
intelligent world servers, this question of money and of right attitudes
towards money and right meditation upon money must be boldly faced. The
emphasis laid by certain large groups on meditation for the raising of funds
(usually for personal use or for the selfish ends of their own particular
organisation or group) has been based upon this emerging concept of the group
use of money. Being, however, selfishly and personally interested, the money
was thought of in relation to the individual and not in relation to the group.
This attitude must and will be changed.
One thing more I would ask of you, my brother, and of the
group who read my words. Money is the manifestation of energy. All energy can
be applied in differing ways, being in itself an impersonal and blind force. It
can be selfishly or unselfishly used. That, in itself, constitutes the main
difference. Motive and creative thought determine the magnetic power of any
individual, group or centre. Determine your motive; see that your group ideal
and group love are dominant; use skill in action; this will involve right
preliminary meditation, plus correct thinking; then you will find that that
which you need will be forthcoming. [DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE p]
Read the rest of the Master’s writings on money at:
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