'The Power of Now - revisited.

So how do i spend my money, a question we are all haunted with all our lives as we wheel and deal with others to always get the best out of the less. What did i do with all the money I had? Where did it all go? The left hand hardly noticed what the right hand received or so it seems. Money, a subject i have often tried not to justify in myself as I, like everyone else, am always in short supply of it or barely making it at best, or so it seems. Schools are created on the subject of money management but I did not take those classes, could not handle math or anything that demands adding and subtracting.So till this day I handle my expenditures through the theory of, taking care of what is most immediately needed for myself or for others who are under my care in one way or another, my loved ones. So I bought a new Lap Top for my daughter and paid half the payment for a new washing Machine the house is in need of. my car repairs took a chunk and then there is the day to day expenses, like gas and food and socializing with friends (coffee shops mostly).
I can tediously go into the gory details of how and why but I will save myself the tedium and instead enjoy what money has let me enjoy. It is this moment in time and space that money has brought me, to be here in the Now and relating thoughts in the form of a writing, recording every feeling that is eager to be exposed or need to be confronted in my head. I am here now experiencing the past, present and the future in one single moment and am saying so as my fingers move from key to key on the keyboard. I am here now listening to my friend Salim performing his Asar solat or the late afternoon prayer in the next cubicle of his. Remembering God brought me here.Are you with me? Do you see what I see, feel what I feel? or have we been so far apart that we cannot understand one another anymore even if we try; I am you, you are me; We are the Universe.
SATORI!
MOKSHA!
TAFAKUR!
AT ONE- NESS!
being in the here and now....i AM THAT, I AM.

So how does one justify spending? Spending more than you make definitely not kosher, not having having an income of one sort or other is not kosher, well that leaves but one choice stop attachment to it, give it up, let it go, become independent of it influence over your life, it is there and it is not, it comes and it goes, it too is your own manifestation,

Eat when you are Hungry,
Sleep when you are sleepy,
Sit and get in touch with your fingers and mind coordination for the mind has much more to share...it is inexhaustible.
Or you can just sit and watch the grass grow.

Life is fleeting, transitory, ever changing in shapes and forms even as we sit and touch each other right now through these endless streams of words, life is happening and each and every moment of happening is just as fleeting, now it is now it is no more. We cling to the impermanence in life while the truth of our being of we truly are is being compromised at an alarming scale where humanity is concern; we are in the danger of missing the truth or our collective Being in this Universe of ours and become victims of our own self generated desire for self destruction. We become territorial warlords out to prove who is the mightiest, the most in power, the mighty Ego in town. Our minds are being constantly drawn towards its self fulfilment, that is of self destruction. The human race if it does not take heed of the discoveries made by the Masters of old and contemporary on the nature of the human mind and spirit, we will head towards our doom sooner than we would love to.
Today Arms sales has become a highly celebrated affair all over the free world, it is like a flea market that crops up everywhere there is money to be made, rulers and dictators to be kept in plenty of supply; we are collectively insane. The sooner we admit this to ourselves while looking into the eyes of our children the better. Or the sooner we awaken to this reality the better, our egoic mind has led us here and from the ways things are happening it is not a pretty scenario we are facing of our collective whole; we are headed towards a collective melt down. We live dominated by the feeling of fear, we become aggressive and over protective, we  view others even our neighbors as a threat to our well being, our security our survival. This is driving the price of arm sales up as  nations scramble to become more secure, to feel safe from attacks; we live in paranoia delusion; we have become cancerous.. But do we know this? Are we aware at all that we are not who we 'think' we are, that we collectively can awaken from this Nightmare on Elm Street that we are sucked into.
Is it possible to educate the collective mind as a whole such it will spontaneously awaken from its slipping into darkness unconsciously, can we heal the collective mind before it does too much damage to itself that cannot be fixed except through total annihilation of the specie if not the planet itself. Humanity needs a miracle and it is at their fingertips, the keyboard to this PC is my way of shaking the world to awaken, if i can convince five, I am very excited even if by just being moved to read...iqra, or listen, and those who have understood the Way will share through skillful means what they know with those who normally will never be exposed to such ways of looking at what is not real.We are living 'The Life of Pi', drifting in the ocean of Conciousness, in the company, our worse nightmare in the form of a very scared and hungry Bengal Tiger our only hope of survival is  in learning about who we truly are.

"The world as it appears to us now is, as i said, largely as a reflection of the egoic mind. Fear being an unavoidable consequence of egoic delusion, it is a world dominated by fear. Just as the images in a dream are symbols of inner states and feelings, so our collective reality is largely a symbolic expression of fear and the heavy layers of negativity that have accumulated in the collective human psyche. We are not separate from our world, so when the majority of humans become free of egoic delusion, this inner change will affect all of creation."
                    Eckhart Tolle--"The Power of Now"

For every single bullet we spend on, whether it be for a pistol or an M-16 or machine gun mounted on a Apache helicopter is meant to kill a man women or child. Sadly if not insanely enough many countries' economy would collapse if we start to think in these lines of thinking.But the truth is still that we are soldiers of fortune with windmills running round and round in our heads; we are the only specie that kills for  the money alone, we take pride in this giving it all we got to become the experts at killing.and we train our children to become the demons on earth taking lives without recourse or compassion. We take pride in becoming inhuman in our need to survive, turning the other cheek or loving thy enemies is not an option; our egoic mind is will defend its hold on our consciousness  and bent on leading us into deeper sleep of the darkness of our being. We need to wake up, how much more can i keep saying this without sounding like a broken record; we need the birds to keep repeating to us to remind us to wake up and stay awake for the fate of our Universe is at peril  while in our care; we the appointed Khalifas, the guardians, the watchers the caretakers of this planet and all within it. All creatures large and small are at our mercy and if we fail to exert a shift in our consciousness towards being more positive and compassionate we fail ourselves as humans we fail God; evil wins darkness dominates at the End of Days.
It is only through an awaken state that we can enlighten the collective spirit and and for that to happen we have to awaken our individual selves and remain in such an awaken state that we will not digress into being in a mental state of egoic delusion; unconsciousness.. We must make every effort to free ourselves from being trapped in the collective state of the unconscious. Even as one historical Buddha, or the Christ or the Prophet of Allah was able to change the collective spirit  of the world so can each and everyone of us if we are concern and compassionate enough. The Masters have set the lessons through their personal experiences and teachings and they have forewarned of the dangers that will befall man if we fail to become aware of our own as well as our collective predicament. It is up to us to take action to detach ourselves from our thinking mind and our mind created existence; or at the very least acknwledge that we are faced with a dire predicament. Liberation from self created prison is our prime motive in being who we are; to understand our true calling in the scheme of life at the collective level. We owe the planet nothing less than  our complete enlightenment while still existing in this form; the human form: we are awakened from our delusion!. Although we can have little hope of totally eliminating the dual thinking mind from consciousness, we can at least recognize it for what it is, a tool a highly sophisticated tool like fire; it can help or it can destroy; it is for us to find the best means. Gog Willing. Insha' Allah. .