Green, clean green, straight green, bright green, organized green, clear green, light green, dark green, gray green, soft green, red green, deep green. Holland is so very clean. Red, white, and blue are the flag, topped with orange for the Queens mother birthday, the day after I arrived, 30 of April 2002.
As long time resident of Sint Maarten, I send you my first report from Holland where I seek funding to open a school in Sint Maarten.
Even the garbage bins are green, unobtrusive, inconspicuous and not out of harmony with the environment, wherever there is a house or a dwelling. There is no visible garbage anywhere. No empty bottles, plastic bags or fast food paper plates and cups. This is the first impression after the overwhelming greenness. The filth and garbage of Sint Maarten is not here. Praise the Dutch! They have found the solution for a healthy and clean environment.
It works as follows: Garbage is separated by the people who make it, and goes in designated bins, green glass in one, and brown glass and transparent glass each in different small containers that stand at places where everybody can easily reach them. Paper in another, as well as plastic. In the bin one has in front of the house goes mixed household garbage. Biological offal, food rests etc. can be put in the compost bins in certain areas, for those who produce that, restaurants, food producers. On the street bins, the private bins, a label with dots, like an enlarged braille letter, is stuck. That label contains information of ownership and is read by the computer that is part of the truck which collect garbage. It knows whose bin it is and it weighs the bin before and after emptying. It calculates the price one pays for the garbage collection... One pays for every kilo of collected garbage 25 Euro cent.
For wood, construction garbage and old furniture one pays 18.- Euro per cubic meter. One can bring it to the dump or for a fee, have a truck come for it. Disposal of broken electrical equipment, iron and paper is free.
Here you have it, the garbage story of how a rich country makes itself richer. I tell you how it works, now you act on it.
As long as Sint Maarten does not educate its uncaring population to take care of its garbage, there is little hope that it will get help from Dutch politicians who come and see. The filth, the carelessness and the total neglect for the countryside works as a psychological detriment upon those who could dispense of funds. Why should one give help to people who do not care for their own place? What would you do for someone who makes a mess and then comes to ask you for help? WouldnÕt you say to first clean up your act before giving anything? First let people do what they can do them self, before giving help with what they cannot do.
Why not separate garbage, and make on the dump certain places for different sorts of filth? Glass to the left, electrical stuff to the right, paper in the middle. Once you have a great heap, recycling companies will ship the loads away. Compress car wrecks, and let the owner of the wreck pay for it. Containers can be filled with paper for recycling. Make the people who make filth pay for the removal of it. Why continue to ignore that what must one day lead to shame, health problems and loss of tourism, toxic residues that kill plants and animals? A Herculean task, but one that will reap great rewards. The very agreeable cleanliness of Holland is something that looks unreal and impossible to me coming from the dirty roadsides where the empty bottles lay as far as they will fly from a open car window. After a bush fire, all that is exposed and it looks so poor. It looks so sick. It is the result of sick minds in stupid heads of people who have no love for their own country. Who do not deserve help or assistance, and who Holland officials certainly will not give autonomy to start on its own. A people who shows no love for its own environment is surely not ready to go on its own. I understand better now why Holland is so against Sint Maarten leaving the Netherlands Antilles, it is still in the baby state of mind, it is not yet house-clean. It still is a baby, and first needs to grow up a little more.
I am tired of trying to give ideas, to give advice, to point out errors, to ask for betterment. I will stop writing to my beloved readers. Because nothing is done about my ideas. I do not ask God for help, I do not pray to some invisible power, I ask the men in charge to do their job. Read here the incomplete list of things that are not done.......
No white lines on the roads, no pavements for pedestrians, no cleanliness in the ghettos of Middle Region, Dutch Quarter and Cay Bay. No garbage bins in the ghettos, no better behavior by young police men. Nothing done about the abandoned hotel at Upper Princess Quarter. Or at the salt crushing ruins at Arch road. Still no solution on Mullet Bay Resort. No local industries, no schools for young artists, jewelry repairing or making, no souvenir manufacturing, no schools for teaching tourist guiding, no high level service teaching. No road over the St. Peter hill straight to Marigot. No garbage recycling bins like on the French side. No stop on free plastic shopping bags that pollute the environment seriously. No refunds on bottles. Do the people in power never travel to civilized countries? And if they do, are they blind to see how things are done there? Are we governed by blind and deaf mental cripples? And most annoying, still no education towards inner development, instead churches full of ignorance and lies. Church leaders, priests and others, are under investigation everywhere in the world for child sex abuse. They should also be under investigation for keeping the people ignorant about the truth of God. Real teaching of how to reach enlightenment, spiritual liberation, would lead the real world to become a better place. Then, the plea some weeks ago in the newspaper by the craft producers did not get answered by the governing powers, who seem not to be interested at all. The whole island economy and spirituality is in a pitiful mess. What I can see and understand is that the people who should take care are not competent. Resulting in the economic stranglehold that the tourist industry has over this island. The political ignorance and ill will of not wanting to be full member and part of Holland, without different laws, just like a county, a province, a part like every other town and place, has brought about the poverty and dirty roads and lack of social assistance that we enjoy now. How blind can people be not to see the prosperity and civility of the French side that is a normal part of France, and the ugliness of our roads and dirty shambles in our shanty town ghettos that are locally ruled. Time for a change, but as the good artist Michael Jackson sings: “they don’t really care about us.” Us being all people that are not in the Antillean Governments pay. Imagine the tourist say: “How pretty , the dirt road leading to the old wooden shacks, how outlandish, no sewage under ground, it runs over the roads, what an attraction, see the poverty and the empty bottles, how different from home.”
Dear readers, it makes no sense to write about the things that everyone can see. It makes no sense to write for the blind. Those that are in power and do nothing about the ugly reality in the ghettos and everywhere else, once they leave this life of opulence, squandering and neglect, I hope they will see their errors. Only then it will be too late. Have a nice day.
Earlier I explained how to observe your thoughts. This is done with your mind, spirit, and soul, whatever it is that holds your sixth sense. This makes it possible to feel things, like the need to go see an old friend, or a certain client, who just when you arrive exclaims that he was thinking of you and wanted to see you. That may be called telepathy. It works between a mother and her child, if the child is in need, the mother feels it. With the sixth sense one observes political ideas, meanings, and abstract things like love and hate and moral issues. One uses it to judge. Church and state do not want you to use it. In [state] schools you learn that you have only 5 senses, not six. The Church says: Judge not, that thy will not be judged.
However, you do judge, if you are aware of it or not. You judge if you feel attracted to this place or that, if you shall wear this dress or another and if you shall feel sick, happy or sad.
What you tell me there, I judge how I feel?
When I feel sick, sad, angry, or happy, I can’t help that, you will say...
But you can I tell you: Start to observe your feelings. You are not your feeling, you are only having it. How do you feel just now? Grim? What thoughts made you feel so? Did your partner get you irritated? Don’t like the traffic? Or was the coffee not strong enough at breakfast?
Don’t worry, no feeling stays forever, unless you keep it there. A feeling is the result of how you think. You will never be able to keep the same thought all day in your head. It may come back tomorrow, likely it was there yesterday, but it will not stay 24 hours. When you observe what you think, you soon will realize that any bad thought can be replaced with another, a happy or pretty, thought.
Things you learn when young stick to you like barnacles to a ship. Traumas from the past may return unconsciously and behavior may be reduced to something that happened in the past. Psychiatrists are called in to evaluate sufferers that become a nuisance for their surroundings. Psychiatrists do not even know the thought-observing process and will only listen to a patient, judge the severances, reduce it to something that happened long ago and say; now that the reason for the behavior is known, it is acceptable. How amazingly stupid. To teach a criminal thought-observing would cure his/her bad behavior. Any one who learns to see him/her self will become a better person. And a free person at that. Thought observing should be taught in prisons.
When a person starts using the sixth sense, [the mind, spirit, soul] and starts to observe the Self, s/he will find out that the past is gone. That the Present is all there is, that behavior today must be reduced to what is important today. The word is: Present, as Gift, Hand out, Grant, Award. It is a gift from the Unified Field, from Life itself, from God if you so prefer. The past is what you drag up from a time that is gone and should not be Here Now. People paste the past into the Present and so destroy the precious Gift. Realize that the Present should be graciously received as it is the best moment in your life.
Now look at yourself and say: I love you.
Earlier I explained how to observe your thoughts. This is done with your mind, spirit, and soul, whatever it is that holds your sixth sense. This makes it possible to feel things, like the need to go see an old friend, or a certain client, who just when you arrive exclaims that he was thinking of you and wanted to see you. That may be called telepathy. It works between a mother and her child, if the child is in need, the mother feels it. With the sixth sense one observes political ideas, meanings, and abstract things like love and hate and moral issues. One uses it to judge. Church and state do not want you to use it. In [state] schools you learn that you have only 5 senses, not six. The Church says: Judge not, that thy will not be judged.
However, you do judge, if you are aware of it or not. You judge if you feel attracted to this place or that, if you shall wear this dress or another and if you shall feel sick, happy or sad.
What you tell me there, I judge how I feel?
When I feel sick, sad, angry, or happy, I can’t help that, you will say...
But you can I tell you: Start to observe your feelings. You are not your feeling, you are only having it. How do you feel just now? Grim? What thoughts made you feel so? Did your partner get you irritated? Don’t like the traffic? Or was the coffee not strong enough at breakfast?
Don’t worry, no feeling stays forever, unless you keep it there. A feeling is the result of how you think. You will never be able to keep the same thought all day in your head. It may come back tomorrow, likely it was there yesterday, but it will not stay 24 hours. When you observe what you think, you soon will realize that any bad thought can be replaced with another, a happy or pretty, thought.
Things you learn when young stick to you like barnacles to a ship. Traumas from the past may return unconsciously and behavior may be reduced to something that happened in the past. Psychiatrists are called in to evaluate sufferers that become a nuisance for their surroundings. Psychiatrists do not even know the thought-observing process and will only listen to a patient, judge the severances, reduce it to something that happened long ago and say; now that the reason for the behavior is known, it is acceptable. How amazingly stupid. To teach a criminal thought-observing would cure his/her bad behavior. Any one who learns to see him/her self will become a better person. And a free person at that. Thought observing should be taught in prisons.
When a person starts using the sixth sense, [the mind, spirit, soul] and starts to observe the Self, s/he will find out that the past is gone. That the Present is all there is, that behavior today must be reduced to what is important today. The word is: Present, as Gift, Hand out, Grant, Award. It is a gift from the Unified Field, from Life itself, from God if you so prefer. The past is what you drag up from a time that is gone and should not be Here Now. People paste the past into the Present and so destroy the precious Gift. Realize that the Present should be graciously received as it is the best moment in your life.
Now look at yourself and say: I love you.
The title could also be: The Way to Truth, but because the Truth shall set you Free, it is the end-result that counts.
In part one I told you to observe your thoughts. I compared your thoughts with clouds that block the clear blue sky, which is you. A thought never stays, just like a cloud and a thought is not you, you are the one that thinks the thought. If you have started to observe your thoughts you will have found that most of the thoughts you think today are the same as the thoughts you had yesterday. They do not progress, and you are not [yet] creative enough to think new thoughts.
Now comes the most important part of this lecture: Between two thoughts is a moment of NO-THOUGHT. Just like between breathing in and breathing out there is a moment of no-breathing, so is there a tiny moment between thoughts when you think not. That is the GAP. You shall have found that observing your thoughts is possible for a moment or so, but soon after, you will be living again without giving it attention. That does not matter, go back as soon as you notice it. To help the process very much, also start to observe how you walk, how you sit, how you talk, how you read this letter. When you can observe your breathing you almost have it made, you are fast getting closer to Who You Really Are. The strange fact is also that the more you observe yourself, the clearer other people become. You can know others only after you found out who you are yourself. While you observe your inhaling and exhaling, you cannot at the same time have disturbing thoughts. You are then not exactly in the gap, but you come close. And because you are traveling inside yourself, wisdom can come in. Yoga can lead to the gap, but yoga is not needed to reach there. When you notice the gap between thoughts, stay there. That is not easy in the beginning, but try anyhow. It is this moment of
NO-THOUGHT that we started out to observe our thinking for. When you think not, Wisdom enters. That’s how easy it is. To stop thinking though may take quiet a while for you to reach.
Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge, it cannot be learned. It can be invited, a place must be made for it. It comes to fill the Gap, that is the Void, the Emptiness between thoughts. Knowledge you can gather from school, from books, from the library, from the internet. You can become a professor and still not have wisdom. Wisdom comes from the Unified Field, from God if you want to call it that. It is Omnipresent, it knows All, it is the Truth, it transcends knowledge. To finish this part two of the Way to Freedom, I’ll tell you why you need an empty mind in order for Wisdom to enter.
I need an Empty Space on this page of this newspaper in order to get this printed, you need an Empty Stomach in order to eat, and you need an Empty Mind in order to let Wisdom enter. As long as your mind is full of thoughts, of lamentations, of prayers, of anger, of wishes, there is no place for wisdom. Church and State want you to stay away from Wisdom, because the sage needs them not. That is why you shall never learn this in school or church.
Recap: first observe your thoughts, then discover the gap, and stay there. That’s all there is to it. In Wisdom you find Truth, which leads to Freedom. In Wisdom you find yourself.
Now look in the mirror and say: I love you.
In the past 100 days not much has changed. Except for the new Dutch government, the killing of the most famous politician in Holland, and the American President, eager to revenge the blunders of his father. With thoughts always in the ancient past, most poor souls still think that revenge and violence and killing can solve problems...So far so bad.
Remember that those who revenge a crime are no better than those who started the crime in the first place. They do this in the name of religion. The ideas of religion and state are only a justification for some to dominate others. State and church work together to keep the small man quiet, promising a better world, forgiveness for crimes, salvation from [imaginary] sins and paradise in the hereafter... So far so bad...
There is hope though, for the doubter, for the seeker, for those that are right now wondering what is true and what is false of all that church bell ringing and those endless political debates that lead nowhere.
The truth can be known however, because Truth is Love, is Life, is Nature, is All. Only is the Truth twisted and hidden behind the lies and the empty promises and the beautiful singing in the Sunday service. I will reveal in several parts written over the coming days how you will find Truth. And who you really are.
It works as follows, first and foremost: you start to observe your thoughts.
You may be thinking of work, or of your partner, or of what is for dinner tonight, no matter what you are thinking of, observe it.
When we where young we learned that we had 5 senses, for: smelling, touching, hearing, seeing, and tasting. However, you have 6 senses. You wasn’t told that, because this knowledge will set you Free. The sixth sense is your mind, or spirit, or soul, whatever you call it. The 6th sense you use to sense what is wrong and what is right. You take decisions with it. You weigh with it if you shall buy this thing or that. If you like a person or not, if you shall go out or stay home. All that and more you do with your sixth sense. And with it you can observe your thoughts. Your thought is not you. Say, you are full of sorrow, you have lost something, or someone, and you are grieving. Now the thought of grief is overwhelmingly blocking all else, it is like a cloud blocking the sun. But, the grieving thought does not stay for ever, sooner or later it is gone. As sure as the sun comes up, another thought soon takes its place. Maybe your next thought is a happy one, you won the lottery, or you feel good in your new shirt and look in the mirror while you put on a fresh after shave, or while trying to get out on the road another car stops to let you get out of your driveway, whatever. That happy thought soon makes place for another thought again, you follow? Perhaps your next thought is angry, you found a scratch on your car when you got out after parking, it must have happened sometime when you wasn’t there, or the cup of hot coffee you took from the drive-through spills in the car on your skirt. Again, you are under a cloud, blocking your true own self.
Because you are still you, whatever you lost, you are not lost, and the lottery money did not even cover what you spent on tickets over time. The scratch is on the car, not on you, and your mind did not get soiled, only the skirt.
To find the Truth, first start observing your thoughts. As if you are sitting next to yourself and watching yourself and witnessing what is taking hold of you right now. YOU ARE NOT THE THOUGHT, always keep in mind: YOU ARE THE THINKER.
Learn this and soon you will find out who you really are, and all by itself you will see that the thought is nothing but a thought, it is not you. Next I will tell you how the thought observation process leads to Truth.
And why do you think, is this never told to you in school or in church or anywhere else?? Because when you know this you cannot be mentally enslaved, and you will become free. Which is very much against the interest of church and state. To be continued.
It is unbelievable that the media are still full of programs that shows the most primitive part of our human race’s activities, war. In all its forms and ways, the idea to solve a conflict with violence is the most primitive. For thousands of years nothing has changed. The earliest known history records tell us how wars have been causing misery, pain and suffering .
I wonder how it is possible that people in the highest places of the governments of great nations still cling to the most primitive ways of behavior. When will they come up with the new approach? When will their brains grow up and will they become real human beings? And when will they apply the teachings of Jesus whom they proclaim to follow ???
Maybe not in my lifetime. Still it is my duty as messenger to tell about the new way. Hopeless as it may sound, a future without war is worked on. A large group of people pray and think constantly about ways to stop the production of weapons, to counteract the ancient sentiments of revenge, violent actions and all other things that cause suffering. The people who do these prayers, know how others suffer. On TV we witness the suffering in war zones far away , which is nothing compared to being there.
If only Bush could be in the next house that is blown apart by an Israeli tank shell . If Osama Bin Laden could walk next to one of his bombs going off. If Sharon could live some time in one of the Palestinian refugee camps. If Central Intelligence Agency officer What’s your name could get the electrodes attached to his own genitals, and if my neighbour himself could get a very hard punch in the face from his wife when he smells of strange perfume. Then maybe we should get a little less violence tomorrow.
It takes a while to brake old habits. How long did women not speak up after being abused? In Switzerland women could vote only recently. Changes come slow, but if you help, they come sooner.
Pray with us. Pray silent, pray loud, pray singing, while you work, while you eat or walk or sex, pray at all times for peace, if that is the only thing you can do. Think as if every day it is Christmas again. Study peace, because war is so primitive, is for undeveloped nitwits. Soldiers are men and boys that have never learned to love, compassion, forgiveness and togetherness. They are encouraged to develop the basest instincts of ancient behavior, the predator, the destroyer, the killer. Not even animals make war on their own sort. Pray that the soldier will learn to make something, to create, to think , to write and read in stead of destroy. Pray to help your violent neighbour, that he may calm down and become a real person. That the next man in uniform will not abuse his position and harass someone.
And try to use less paper to preserve the forests, use a smaller car to emit less greenhouse gasses, use non-ozone-depleting coolant in your airco, do not double bag a small thing from the shop, try to preserve our earth actively, not with prayer alone. Believe it or not, we are all together on this one and only home, our Earth. Hurting your Earth is ultimately hurting yourself.
Black history month is fine, yellow history is fine, all history is fine, but it does not make a difference today. Whatever teaching from historic figures has survived the times and can still today be applied is worthwhile, but otherwise, history is past and doesn't come back. Useless is the time spent on history, as useless as the time spent on future. All we have is here and now. And me, as a light skin member of the human race enjoyed last night a fantastic evening with members that are fitted out with dark skins. So what? What in Gods Name has the outside to do with anything? It was our souls that met in a surrounding of colorless music, dance and merry laughter. It was our souls that celebrated life together, and nothing could come in between our happiness.
How sorry are we for those that have no inner eyes that see joy and love more clear than skin and race and all that superficial layers of color and where are you from and what language do you speak... When love is present, nothing can upset the feeling, and all this talk of black history is dust in the wind, it has no substance at all. Who can feel pride for what someone else has accomplished is a thief of the others doings. Be proud of who you are, not of anybody else. I am proud of the intense bliss that I felt with the friends of different skins and countries of origin and language, what do I care, the feeling of togetherness and warmth is all that counts. Bless all people of love, as love knows no color, no gender, no restrictions whatsoever. Love is timeless.
Sleazy is in my dictionary explained as common, base, cheap. Balls are spheres, globes but also parties, hop ups, dances, proms. Fed up with base balls or common dance parties, or cheap proms?
Are you jealous to see young girls going with men your own age because you missed your chance to have an older man love you when you was young? Don’t you know that men, no matter how old, always will be boys?
That aside, you ask my definition of love. Well, love is life, is God, is devotion, compassion, concern, affection, fondness, warmth, adoring, worshiping, admiring, even idolizing, and respecting. All of the above is how I define love. And more, love is where you put your attention.
Indeed, as you state, her hormones are running wild and if I was half a man I would correct her with mature love. Well, I am not only half a man, I am a whole man, total, undivided, with all of the mature love already described. I do not have to put her in her place, she is already there and she greatly respects me.
Using the old Jewish (Old Testament) proverb of “Guarding fleas is easier than a girl in love”, does not make me a dog, or are you anti Jewish as well as fed up with base balls/cheap parties?
She is for sure looking out for men like me, who are easily aroused; she is not at all interested in others.
Then, I do not abuse her in the least, I’ll ask her one of these days to write to you how she enjoyed our togetherness. We are not married and do not intent to marry, so your quote of the Bible does not impress us much. Especially as many people who live by your outdated Bible are at present on trial for sexually abusing 11 year old boys and other very young children, in the USA. Do you ever read the rest of the newspaper?
And lastly, about my ego: that cannot be checked, it is gone, true love is egoless, ego and love do not go together.
Please come again, at your loving service any time.
Giving in to that girl in love.
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