Is the Self an Other-Self?

[Diana]

the way your question is posed seems to suggest that there is a scarce allocation of resources (time, money, attention), and that we have to make a choice as to where these go.

I make those choices every day regarding time. Not that I hold with the idea of scarcity, but practically, my time is managed closely. I have a business almost 2 years into R&D. I have another business involving writing. I spend most of my time on these things.

My businesses are both services to the world in general, a "universal" service. I would categorize attending to an aging mother as "personal service."

however, if we look at this quote here:

7.15 However, service to others results in service to self, thus preserving and further harmonizing the distortions of those entities seeking intelligent infinity through these disciplines.

Good quote. I agree. It's the fine line of where to put one's attention. It seems to be a balancing act.

There seems to be a gap between creating and being.

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Your responsibility to your self is to ensure its continued functioning and maintenance, keeping it physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually healthy. Your responsibility to other-selves is determined by how you are most comfortable interacting with other-selves.

That's the way I live. But the criteria of one's "comfort level" could mean many different things.

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While we are on the subject of service. Is there any one else here who feels that the concept of money is completely obsolete? IMHO, much of our current distortions comes from our use of the concept of money.

Money is not obsolete--yet. It is still our medium of exchange even if it is shaky. However, a vision of a better way is how we evolve. It is really our attitudes and beliefs that cause problems, such as greed and elitism, not the money itself.

When we get to the point of a mechanized society with robotic labor, perhaps we can do away with a system of exchange. Everyone would have basic needs met.