ON TURNING OUR MIND AROUND

To take my thoughts off that hospital, I've landed on the mystery that is Trump.

We beg for peace of mind when it is a seeking mind that we need...an all-but agitated mind that, through our search for the spiritual, we keep calmed, reined in as it were. For instance, we remember to be grateful for friends, but to get closer to foes...until they become the friends we can be grateful for.

Spiritual law is not in common sense. There is a reason, above our imagining, that Donald Trump, exactly as he is, walks amongst us today...with followers. We must go beyond our reasoning mind to be open to the answer. Trump easily goes outside any norm that we have ever known in political campaigns and yet draws thousands to him. Why?

I wonder if it isn't the hope that he'll be the one who can right the unbalance of power, wealth, law so many experience in America today. That may well be the core of it. He goes outside anything we're ever experienced in politics...and succeeds. Which tells me that he must be necessary to us just as he is right now.

If that be true, we must needs understand, not resist, the phenomenon. Plus...here's the danger...if we resist him, we become him.

We must befriend the WHY he is here, not the personality for, I suspect, any personality doing the exact same thing at this time and in this place would be getting the same results. Our aim must be to not resist the agitator for that takes our eye off the agitation, the reason we are at this place. We must seek to understand not condemn the agitation and then, the most important piece, do what we can to effect change.

Having laid all that out, here's my oh-so simple solution:

As a start, to alleviate the overreach of the Citizens United ruling, a Fund is set up for the health and educational benefits of all people who earn under $50,000 annually. It will be funded as follows: first by Wall Street, the entire contingent, hedge funds, et al., and each will contribute $1 billion; then $10 million a piece will come from each and every one of the billionaires in the country. Next, each and all millionaires, on a sliding scale, contribute at least $100,000.

In today's world, that is only a lot of money to those who earn less than $50,000 annually.

Then the rest of us...those who are far from wealthy but not in financial hurt...can make a commitment to associate ourselves with the Fund...give some time each day/week to do volunteer work in setting up the Fund, in being the hands and feet for those in need, etc.  

I do not doubt that the hardest part of this plan is coming to believe that this is not a political plan...it is a spiritual plan purely and simply to benefit our own soul.

Well, there it is. I've succeeded. I not only got my mind turned around a tish in re Trump, but I took my thoughts off that hospital.

Thank you.