Suffering
One day, Yóu Dà1 came to Yē Sū2 with a question…
“Teacher, every where we go, we encounter such abject poverty.
Is there anything we can do for those who suffer so?”
Yē Sū smiled with compassion and replied,
“Brother, it is natural to feel the pain, anguish and suffering of your brothers and sisters, but do not despair for those who currently experience such conditions.
Re-member what I have taught you…
Do not do to others what you yourself do not want done to you.
Do for others what you yourself want done for you.
Love
your brothers —
your sisters —
all the Children of the Living Soil —
all the Children of the Infinite Light —
—
as
your
Self.
For indeed,
your brother —
your sister —
is
your
Self
—
simply
in
disguise.
Not two.
So, offer support, succour and solace to all those in need,
if and when it is within your means —
but do not look upon them as weak, helpless or powerless —
no…
do not dishonour or disempower them so,
by treating them as “poor” —
or
as
“victims.”
For they are, in a way —
rather ironically —
far closer to the Kingdom of Pure Love
than many who consider themselves “rich” —
according to the systemic values of this veiled, illusory experience of physicality.
Indeed, true wealth and abundance has nothing to do with the pernicious greed and the pathological hoarding of fleeting, temporal toys and trinkets, such as land, houses, money, and possessions —
which is deeply rooted
in
fear.
For it is this pervasive, existential fear —
the fear of lack —
the fear of scarcity —
the fear of impermanence —
which fuels the incessant, insatiable lust and craving for such things —
for power, prestige, position, privilege, wealth and control —
and
blinds
the Children of the Living Soil —
Children of the Infinite Light —
to the indescribable beauty, joy, wonder and peace
of the Kingdom of Pure Love
of which I so often speak —
blinds
them
to the re-membrance —
the re-alization —
of
True
Abundant
Life
—
keeping us bound —
fettered —
enslaved —
to
the
wheel
of
suffering.
Awaken and re-member.
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— a literary adaptation based on teachings of Yeshua an Nasiri Ihidaya (Aramaic for ‘Jesus of Nazareth, One Who Is Awake’) as recorded in the ‘The Secret Sayings of Yē Sū’ — a collection of wisdom sayings attributed to Yeshu’a an Nasiri Ihidaya, compiled in China in the Jǐng Jiāo tradition (‘Jǐng Jiāo’ might either be translated as ‘Teaching of the Light’, ‘Awakened Teaching’, or ‘The Great Teaching’) during the Tang dynasty, c. 618-906 CE and translated by Jay G. Williams
(1) Yóu Dà is Chinese Mandarin for Yehu’da (Judah or Judas)
(2) Yē Sū is Chinese Mandarin for Yeshu’a (Jesus)