Value of Equanimity
Since time immemorial, the attitude of the truly wise has been expressed in the saying: "Have nothing and yet possess everything." To have nothing means to renounce the unnecessary material and, in this relationship, to turn only to what is necessary; in relation to 'possessing everything', however, is to follow all true knowledge as well as wisdom, true love and true peace, true harmony and freedom in knowledge and observance of the creational truth, justice, and laws, and to call it one's own. Only those who do not attach their thoughts, feelings and spiritually fine-sensitive feelings to materially created things, who can free themselves from the compulsion of the material and let go of it in order to give the spiritual, and that which is consciousness-based, the place they deserve, are truly free and thus equanimous. Equanimity is of great importance, for in its value it contains the power of calmness in thoughts, feelings, desires, hopes, and expectations, by the fact that an entrance has been found into the creational truth in which fulfilment can be found in every respect. Equanimity in its value also means that there has been a liberation from the habits of one's own ego, as well as an emptying of fears and worries, so that true love, knowledge, and wisdom can work within the personality, thus expressing the true core of the innermost creational being in an unadulterated form. Equanimity as an attitude also means inner freedom, inner peace and tranquillity, and a strong and healthy factor of distance from everything that negatively affects consciousness and thoughts and feelings from the outside. Equanimity is a protection against it and prevents that which is threatening from the outside from finding a place inside the personality and in thoughts and feelings and from becoming established in them. So equanimity is not simply an attitude of character in itself, but a strictly worked out attitude of reason, true love and harmony as well as inner peace and inner freedom. So serenity can be learned, but in order to attain it much must be left alone and omitted, especially the strict attachment to the purely worldly, the material.
The human being should not be attached to the recognition as well as the property and success, etc. in binding measure, because otherwise a dependence is generated. But it is this dependence that contradicts human dignity to a great extent. Nevertheless, the human being makes himself/herself dependent on their prosperity, on their desires, material addictions and vices as well as on habits and the like. But if the human being wants to attain equanimity, he/she must let go of all these things. This letting go of all unnecessary and often very stressful ballast has nothing to do with an ascetic achievement, nothing to do with hermitage and nothing to do with deprivation and self-mortification, which would have to be laboriously carried and fulfilled. In fact, it is only the volition through pure reason as well as the need for inner freedom, namely out of the knowledge that life only becomes truly fruitful and successful when there is real independence from all burdensome things and unvalues, such as true inner freedom and love as well as peace and harmony. Only in this state is the human being independent of all that other humans think and expect of him/her. And this state also belongs to the realm of equanimity and its value. And this state also means freedom and independence from every recognition and care of other people, because through the state of equanimity there is a contact with one's own self or personality, which is recognised and accepted in all its values. But in this value of equanimity lies also the demand of letting go of oneself, when an egotism is prevented, as well as the appearance of fears, worries and depressive thoughts and feelings, etc. Also the being hurt by fellow human beings, by their words and actions, etc., is avoided by this, or at least such injuries are not held on to. Thus there are also no accusations against fellow human beings who may have caused injuries. And by not accusing the human being ultimately does not refuse life, but cultivates his/her equanimity. In truth, then, the human being should ignore all insults and injuries as far as the situation permits. This also means to let the equanimity work in such a wise that a distancing and a resignation from one's own self must take place in order to view oneself and one's own life from an elevated point of view, in order to see oneself as it corresponds to reality. But this can only happen in equanimity. And those who are really able to do this can react calmly to whatever penetrates them. Equanimity also leads to a serene reaction to rejection or criticism, and also to no panic gaining the upper hand when surprising or terrible situations and events occur. Equanimity also leads to the feeling and security of not being threatened and to fearlessness, not least because a useful and securing distance is gained from all internal and external influences.
The opinions of humans are different and diverse, just as the successes and images are different and varied. But all these are of little or no importance if they are confronted with equanimity. Equanimity always offers a solid foundation on which one can look calmly at what flows into one's own person. And those who have developed equanimity can also react to the worst events and news, whereby however equanimity has nothing to do with composure or preparedness, which e.g. is revealed in a message through which the death of a loved one is transmitted. Composure or being prepared means to fit into a strong control of one's own power and thus into a discipline created by oneself. The expression of composure or preparedness is based on a strict control of not releasing the true thoughts and feelings of being affected to the outside, although an inner shock is present. Through the composure, respectively the preparedness, only the posture is truthfully preserved, whereby the human being controls himself/herself externally. In truth, however, this is no more and no less than a self-control that has nothing to do with equanimity. A human being who truly lives in equanimity never has to keep his/her composure, for their inner attitude is harmonious, free and balanced to such an extent that they are not affected mentally and emotionally by bad events, situations and messages, etc., in such a wise that everything must first be subjected to control and mastery. For a human who lives in equanimity is clearly aware of the things that life inevitably brings with it and which no human being is able to avoid. So he/she accepts them and and consciously comes to terms with them. Thus nothing can throw him/her off course, which gives them an absolute inner freedom and vastness, the basic condition of which, in turn, is equanimity.
The truth of equanimity does not lie in discussions that are often heated and often lead to arguments. Equanimity is therefore also not anchored in the fact that through speeches and discussions, etc. a duty must be fulfilled and the conscience must or should be calmed down. The truth of equanimity is also not found in the correctness or choice of arguments and words, because truthfully completely different values are of importance, namely the consistency with the reality of the truth itself. And precisely this is a sore point that gives humans insecurity and ignorance, because precisely what he/she considers to be real and absolutely true is, as a rule, nothing more than an expression of his/her own imagination and all that they make up for themselves as projections. Thus humans make their own images and ideas of truth without seeking and finding the real truth within themselves. Thus truth remains a book with seven seals and completely incomprehensible to him, because they are unable to define it. But if they know about the real truth, then they will not withdraw, but will conduct their words and discussions in the knowledge of it, that there is only one truth, even if for the individual human being according to their own views their insights and truths are always only relative, consequently all human beings can also have different points of view. But the teaching of the spirit, the teaching of the truth, says that the human being also comes to the aid of this through real equanimity, that they should not only cultivate their thoughts in an over-intellectual manner, but also through their feelings and through their rationality, whereby they should also hear the voice of their innermost, creational-spiritual being.
Eduard, 10 Years old
March 8th 1947
Riches and Contentment
There are very many human beings in the world who are strongly biased against religion or who have turned to atheism, a purely secular ideology or a distinct philosophy. But there are also those who are not attached to any ideology, but simply live for the moment, without worrying about life, the world, the Creation, death or any other values, although their thoughts and actions are focused on mammon and riches. But sooner or later, they, like all other human beings, whether religious, sectarian, secular ideologised or philosophical, must be freed from not thinking about the truth and from not accepting it, as well as from avarice and the pure pursuit of riches, in order to become content and calm and free. If a human being knows no contentment, then he/she accumulates more and more, because his/her will is always to have more and more. And even if he/she owned the entire world, the solar system or even the entire universe, he/she would still not be satisfied. What is not noticed, however, is that bitter poverty very often reigns within the human being, in his/her humaneness, thoughts and feelings and in his/her love, if contentment is not cultivated but only the pursuit of riches. Nor does the human being notice the loneliness in which he/she lives, sinks and withers.
Human beings who are uncontent and only in the pursuit of riches also live in poverty in the process that they never have the ability to know whether they are truly loved by their fellow human beings when the latter pretend to do so. Thus, they live in their riches and in their influence in constant uncertainty as to whether a fellow human being is actually bringing true love to them or whether, as is the case as a rule - with a few exceptions - it is only a feigned love and feigned affection that is in compliance with the circumstances and geared towards the use of and acquisition of riches. So it happens that rarely is a human being and his or her essence truly loved, but only his or her riches and influence or his or her prominent form of fame or his or her activity, etc. However, when their riches dwindle, the false love shown to them also disappears, and with it all the false ‘lovers’ and false friends. They disappear like the night birds that are shy of the light when the riches dwindle and are lost. But this is precisely the moment when the rich man/woman would value genuine and good friends in true love, because he/she needs them and is actually dependent on them in this situation of losing his wealth. But this is not in the mind of the rich man/woman while he/she is enjoying his/her wealth – and certainly not of the creeping beneficiaries, whose love and friendship are of the wrong form and are only aimed at gain and free-riding. The human being, however, who cultivates contentment, rejects such thoughts and such doing and strives to lead a simple life, even if he/she can call a certain prosperity and richness his/her own. He/she remains modest and does not show off his/her wealth, possessions and abundance, instead turning to the values of true love, knowledge, wisdom and real inner and outer peace, as well as freedom and harmony, and thus also finding inner and outer happiness. This human being knows that wealth on its own cannot create happiness, nor can any of the other high values be generated, if contentment is not cultivated and heeded, he/she knows that money, fame, prestige and riches do not mean the world and do not bring lasting happiness and thus do not signify the meaning of life and its goal, but that these high values lie in the conscious evolution as well as in the fulfilment of the Creational Laws and Recommendations and thus also in true love.
Eduard, 10 Years old
August 10th 1947
ORIGINAL GERMAN SOURCE: Wert der Gelassenheit und Reichtum und Genugsamkeit
Genugsamkeit = Contentment / Modesty
Genugsamlose = Uncontent / Unmodest
Gelassenheit = Equanimity
Reichtum = Riches / Richness
Wesen = A Wesen is an independently existing life form with its own individuality and personality in an impulse-based, instinct-based or conscious consciousness-form with evolution-possibilities that are specifically directed towards everything, and with its own physical, psychical (relating to the psyche), conscious, part-conscious, unconscious, impulse- or instinct-based development-forms (human being, animal, creature and plants).
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