Selfishness and Selflessness - Two Sides of the Same Coin

[Plenum]

Selfishness, that's believing you're more important than others. Selflessness, that's believing others are more important than you.

There's the illusion right there, the "more important" concept.

Which part of Creation is more important than some other part? God doesn't create "more important" parts of the Universe, those who believe that don't understand Oneness or Unconditional Love.

yeah, good stuff Raz.

there is indeed a certain 'equality' achieved once the heart (green ray) centre is fully penetrated.

and yet, that is not the easiest thing to achieve:

"85.16 To the student of the balancing process we may suggest that the most stringent honesty be applied.

As compassion is perceived it is suggested that, in balancing, this perception be analyzed. It may take many, many essays into compassion before true universal love is the product of the attempted opening and crystallization of this all-important springboard energy center.

Thus the student may discover many other components to what may seem to be all-embracing love. Each of these components may be balanced and accepted as part of the self and as transitional material as the entity’s seat of learn/teaching moves ever more fairly into the green ray."

one of the biggest impedients to clearing the green-ray centre, in my view, is the mechanism of approval/disapproval. Ra talked about this particular process as an exercise, although they did not explicitly link it to green-ray, my understanding is that through approval/disapproval we create inequalities in our mind with regards to the assessing of other beings by judging their externalised qualities or characteristics.

People who embody the qualities which we 'approve', we will tend to love and accept more, because, well, we 'approve' of who they are. And likewise, the qualities and things that we disapprove of, the people who represent these things will come to be seen as despised or unworthy of our friendship.

so yes, this approval/disapproval is like the mote in our eye when it comes to accepting or valuing the other as equals; it leads to elevating some people as statues to be admired. and lowering others to be disdained.