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FAIRNESS [“Fairness” was written
before I heard of “The Secret,” “The Laws of Abundance and
Expectation” and “Gratitude” (discussed in my link, “The Secret”
and “Enjoy,” later links on my website,
www.davidhakim.com.
In real life getting things can be as easy as asking for
it!
I have witnessed the power of “The Secret” in my life. The planet in “the Lonely Planet,” a short story in The Best of Murray Leinster (Edited and with an Introduction by J. J. Pierce: A Del Rey [paperback] Book, Ballantine Books, New York, N. Y., 1978) manages to convince people to live on it. The lonely planet can be said to represent God: Everything can be granted to he who asks. Things can literally “Fall into one’s lap.”] When I first received
the word “fairness” as my word for the month from spirit, the
first reaction I had is that “fairness” is a judgmental word
like “perfection,” “karma” and “honor.” Making “fairness” a goal
in my life can be damaging to my self-esteem, because I may tend
to overdo it and leave myself out, becoming a “door mat” for
others. In my website,
www.davidhakim.com, I have already written on “Perfection”
and “Honor,” and karma is written about in my link on “Gratitude.”
What could I write about fairness, that would be of interest to
the reader? After some meditation, I was inspired to read about “Sin” in The Great Ideas, a Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World, Volume II, Man to World, published by the Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 1952, and reread “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare.
After reading the
following from “Sin” (683) I realized that there was much more
to think about:
However, through the
Inner Peace Movement (www.innerpeacemovement.org;
see also
www.alcworld.com) and the Wayshowers Community Fellowship
(see
www.wayshowerscommunityfellowsh *
*
My mentor, Bishop
Sandra Adler of the Peace Community Church International, gave
me the following to think about:
However, many of us,
myself included, are sometimes so obsessed from a sense of anger
or guilt that we see little of fairness in our existence.
How do we release the emotion of unfairness in our past or
especially in our future when we are fearful of growing old?
To me these emotions reflect upon almost every act attempted and
affect any true feelings we have. Also, what is the
meaning of "living for myself"? I do not believe this
should be interpreted in a totally egocentric manner of
behavior, although Francisco Coll, founder of several of the
above named spiritual movements, said 50% pride is appropriate.
I believe that it means that we should live and let live and
realize that the universe is fair if we are allowed to do this.
Or if we are not able to do so, that we grow when we learn we
must find a meaning in life, despite its apparent unfairness, as
did the some of the Jews and others in concentration camps in
World War II.
* An often repeated quote
from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” is: . . . [T]o thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, [T]hou canst not
be false to any man (Act I, Scene III) And from the Bible, Do unto others as
you would have them do unto you. But most people realize
that the practitioner of these sayings must always have inherent
within him a positive sense of fairness, which is impossible:
we all see “through a glass darkly” and are prone to sin. Hamlet himself, in his
famous “To be or not to be” speech (Act III, Scene I) considered
the necessity to avoid vengeance for his father’s death.
However, Hamlet wanted to die (Act II, Scene II), so murdering
his uncle as revenge for the murder of his father may have been
largely determined by his desire not to continue to live. Karma is the effect
upon a person of a positive or negative act toward another.
It can be experienced in one lifetime, which King Claudius, the
murderer of Hamlet’s father, discovered. One does not have
to believe in reincarnation to know the reality of karma, for it
can exhibit itself in a split second after one acts (of course,
Hamlet gets his revenge at the end of the play but commits
suicide).
* If one can always
follow his true feelings, he would never have to worry about
lack of fairness. But even God, in Karl Jung’s “Answer to
Job” (see, for example, “Christ and the Jews Expanded,” part of
my link “Christ and the Jews” on this website) was accused of
being unfair. Even if we believe in predestination, and at times appear not to have any control over our destiny, the concept of sin is necessary when we acknowledge that actions on our part almost continuously result in karma, whether it is positive or negative. It is my continuing prayer that I learn from my mistakes so that I do not continue to harm others. Yet we are all guilty
of unfairness, since no one on planet earth can be or was
perfect in the sense of freedom from the inclination to sin. If one believes life
should always be fair, someone perpetuated a fraud upon him, for
life is not intended to be fair. Even the most confused
incarnating souls chose life to somehow grow in love and
service, even though an iota of learning of the meaning of life
may not be acquired until after he passes on and reviews his
life experiences (This is assuming that after his death he has
awareness of the nature of his existence and that life has more
meaning than the perpetual reliving the facts surrounding his
death and his yearning for a continuing human existence.
[Thus, the ability to communicate with guidance, as we all do in
various ways, is possibly the most important act of existence,
for we can thereby learn that life is always fair when the
nature of our existence is adequately understood.]) However, as with many attributes of human existence, many have learned to mimic words such as fairness, honor and perfection with smoothness, without showing love. We are one with all
things. A good illustration is the following from
Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky) as quoted in “Sin,” supra,
755:
Through unity with
spirit one can achieve a sense of fairness which is generally
acceptable, providing he is not at any given moment overwhelmed
by emotion. And the best way to remain positive is to view
positive messages, which I believe I set forth in my
“Enthusiasm” link to this website.
* I believe that the best
way to avoid unfairness in one’s life is to have intimacy and a
positive rearing as a child. I believe that most world
leaders who were butchers did not receive proper rearing, for
today we still engage in strategies of conquest, both personal,
national and international that cause me to sometimes believe
that human ethical advancement is a myth. And this at a
time when we have had the power to destroy our planet for
decades! Perhaps we will someday
recognize that peace is more possible when we again establish a
matriarchal society.
* Peace of mind for many
comes only after he forgives himself and believes he is
forgiven. But again, emotion plays a key role in being
fair and forgiving another. I am almost always
experiencing the emotion that life can seem to be unfair.
To avoid any self-righteousness, I must accept the reality that
at times all of us appear to be unfair to another. But
again, if everyone were fair to each other, how would we grow?
Why incarnate at all if one expects to be treated fairly? David C. Hakim Rochester, Michigan June 9, 2006 |