Comments on: Blog Action Day: Abundance

By: driver59

driver59 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:06:29 +0000

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. ,

By: Ari Koinuma

Ari Koinuma — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:36:56 +0000

Hi Mitch,

I agree with your observations. Some “haves” clearly don’t actually “have” it — meaning, they’re still driven by scarcity mentality and they feel the need to hang on tightly to what they have and get more for themselves. That’s not true abundance. That’s material riches to a poor mind — and you’re right, they stay poor in mind, no matter how much they have.

But out of the problems have to come a vision for a solution, and that’s where we need to affix our gaze. I think the solution lies in living a truly abundant life. For true abundance overflows, and enriches everyone touched by it.

ari

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:29:52 +0000

Truthfully, I think one can’t really look for solutions until one has some idea of why there are problems to begin with. I believe there are two main reasons there is poverty, and everything else builds off that. One is that those who have it want to keep it and get even more; two, there’s always someone who looks down on someone else for some kind of reason, and if enough other people decide to look down in the same fashion then those at the bottom will usually end up being poor. So, if either of those can be overcome in some fashion, we have a chance to combat poverty.

However, it’s been going on a long time, and nothing’s conquered it yet.

Mitch´s last blog post..Blog Action Day - Poverty

By: Ari Koinuma

Ari Koinuma — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:44:53 +0000

Viola,

Thanks, and welcome to OBV! I appreciated your personal story very much.

To my readers, Viola’s post on poverty is here: http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com/2008/10/16/poverty/

ari

By: Ari Koinuma

Ari Koinuma — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:43:43 +0000

Hi Bamboo,

Thanks. It’s a simple concept, yet I can’t ignore it. You can’t ask someone to do what you yourself cannot. The most powerful statement you can make to the world is to A) live it yourself, and B) raise good children. But yet, it appears that those are the hardest things to do.

ari

By: Viola Jaynes

Viola Jaynes — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:01:25 +0000

Ari,

Great post and wonderfully written as you thought about this enormous issue. Thanks for reading my post on “Poverty” as well. Yours, of course, resonates loudly with mine. Thank you! If any of your readers would like to read my post on the subject they make go to http://www.spiritualthingsmatter.com

Best to you,
Viola

Viola Jaynes´s last blog post..Poverty

By: Bamboo Forest

Bamboo Forest — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:50:23 +0000

Awesome post!

“They speak of peace yet are promoting something else by how they live.”

The above sentiment, is incredibly true. Thanks for putting it out there, for us to read.

I love how you finished off this piece: “You are the solution the world has been waiting for.”

Your words in this post really resonate with me. Very inspiring.

By: Ari Koinuma

Ari Koinuma — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:12:53 +0000

Akemi-san,

Arigato! I will be by later to check out your stuff….

ari

By: Ari Koinuma

Ari Koinuma — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:11:57 +0000

ari

By: Ari Koinuma

Ari Koinuma — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:06:28 +0000

Hi Kathy,

Welcome to OBV! And thanks. Yes, this is a topic that’s dear to my heart — when a country as materially wealthy as Japan can have one person committing suicide every 15 minutes. Poor of spirits cannot be unpoor in physical life. Such riches, wasted away, when elsewhere people die from physical scarcity.

I do take it personally. I consider it a part of my mission, to spread abundance and eradicate spiritual poverty. Spiritual and mental wealth is the next evolution in the “developed” societies.

Keep in touch — I look forward to getting to know you.

ari