Saving the World: Part I

"Save the world?! It's kind of like save the whales, only on a larger scale, right? I already re-cycle and don't drive a Hummer, and even if I do, it's none of your business! Besides have you taken a look at my list? I hardly got time to go to the bathroom much less save the world." -- Imagined voice of any given person

Well you see, I figure we have been going at this thing all wrong, kind of bass-ackwards so to speak. We got our priorities confused. We thought if we focused on the material we could build a heaven on earth. I remember when we washed clothes in a galvanized tub with a scrub board and had an ice box. It wasn't that long ago. Then we got promised the wonders of modern science. Clothes, for example, would get washed automatically while we would be free to pursue more leisurely activities. You know where that has gone.

Let me get to the point. We have been emphasizing the material realm as the highest priority. We have been ignoring the truth. If we attune to the spiritual first, the material will fall into its right place.

By spiritual I mean, not some pie-in-the-sky woo woo thing, but the realm of the lifeforce, the energetic flow that sustains us.

My main teacher and compadre, Jesus, says it this way. When asked what was the greatest rule to follow as an earthling, he said there are two. But they come in a certain order. First things first. Love our Source with all our heart, all our soul, and all our mind.

There. That's not so hard is it? Love that-which-breathes-you. You don't even have to join a group.

Abraham, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Muhammad, Krishna, Aurobindo and other spiritual teachers say the same thing. It's a universal truth.

So that's a first step in saving the world. Have our own spiritual practice, at least a few minutes every day, probably at the day's beginning, to calibrate to our Source, to drop all else and openly love our Source with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind.