Most of us have probably seen this viral video, ironically posted as a commercial for a Thai communications company.
It's an extremely moving and powerful piece about the value of giving. If it doesn't make you feel powerful emotion, you're probably missing something!
Let's explore the intuitive information most of us tend to ignore on a daily basis. The video starts off with a young boy being accused of stealing by a female shopkeeper. A neighboring shopkeeper notices it is medicine and asks the boy about it. After saying it is for his sick mama, the food shopkeeper pays for the medicine and also gives the boy some chicken soup from his own shop.
The conditioned parts of us (rational, stuck in the "real world" mentality) first pick up on the idea that it is not "right" to steal. It is not acceptable to take things that don't belong to you or that you haven't personally worked for. Then we begin to look at the thinking that comes from heart, like the food shopkeeper did. He understood the boy had a need for medicine but had no money to pay. The man's compassion overcame his indignity and he gave what he had freely. Helping was his only thought.
We jump to the future, where the same food shopkeeper has maintained his giving, compassionate heart. When he suffers some sort of brain aneurysm or stroke, his sweet daughter is obliged to sell their shop and home in order to pay for her father's massive medical bills. It's definitely an overwhelming sort of situation to be in--very hopeless.
However, the operating surgeon also happens to be the same little boy the shopkeeper saved so many years ago when he was caught shoplifting medicine for his mother. Remembering the kindness, the now grown man forgives the shopkeeper's hospital debt, saying the debt was paid years ago with free medicine and chicken soup.
Why does this play so powerfully with our emotions? Because it touches our hearts, and our hearts are where our connection to the divine live. Even though we usually choose to live by the rules and laws society dictates to us, our unconscious selves know there is a higher law, a higher order. It is this higher order functioning our emotions respond to.
Day-to-day, we function through our brain-based society, believing more laws and more rules will help us build a better world. Yet for all the laws and rules we set down, lawlessness remains. We heap on more and more rules and guidelines, yet we see no improvement. Many people have already decided the problems in society are just too bad and all we can to do is maintain.
I say that's BS!!! There is a higher law, but it doesn't function in the way most of us have come to rely on. It does not rely on a set of rules and laws we apply to all situations. It relies on compassion. It relies on love. It relies on the connection we have to all things through our hearts. The message of this video is powerful because the emotions it brings out rely on the heart's higher law.
Don't you think it is time to tap in to the divine by tapping into your heart's connection to it? If everyone did that, we could change the world for the better in an instant.
BE the change you wish to see in the world. Think with your heart!!!
~CSE
Let's explore the intuitive information most of us tend to ignore on a daily basis. The video starts off with a young boy being accused of stealing by a female shopkeeper. A neighboring shopkeeper notices it is medicine and asks the boy about it. After saying it is for his sick mama, the food shopkeeper pays for the medicine and also gives the boy some chicken soup from his own shop.
The conditioned parts of us (rational, stuck in the "real world" mentality) first pick up on the idea that it is not "right" to steal. It is not acceptable to take things that don't belong to you or that you haven't personally worked for. Then we begin to look at the thinking that comes from heart, like the food shopkeeper did. He understood the boy had a need for medicine but had no money to pay. The man's compassion overcame his indignity and he gave what he had freely. Helping was his only thought.
We jump to the future, where the same food shopkeeper has maintained his giving, compassionate heart. When he suffers some sort of brain aneurysm or stroke, his sweet daughter is obliged to sell their shop and home in order to pay for her father's massive medical bills. It's definitely an overwhelming sort of situation to be in--very hopeless.
However, the operating surgeon also happens to be the same little boy the shopkeeper saved so many years ago when he was caught shoplifting medicine for his mother. Remembering the kindness, the now grown man forgives the shopkeeper's hospital debt, saying the debt was paid years ago with free medicine and chicken soup.
Why does this play so powerfully with our emotions? Because it touches our hearts, and our hearts are where our connection to the divine live. Even though we usually choose to live by the rules and laws society dictates to us, our unconscious selves know there is a higher law, a higher order. It is this higher order functioning our emotions respond to.
Day-to-day, we function through our brain-based society, believing more laws and more rules will help us build a better world. Yet for all the laws and rules we set down, lawlessness remains. We heap on more and more rules and guidelines, yet we see no improvement. Many people have already decided the problems in society are just too bad and all we can to do is maintain.
I say that's BS!!! There is a higher law, but it doesn't function in the way most of us have come to rely on. It does not rely on a set of rules and laws we apply to all situations. It relies on compassion. It relies on love. It relies on the connection we have to all things through our hearts. The message of this video is powerful because the emotions it brings out rely on the heart's higher law.
Don't you think it is time to tap in to the divine by tapping into your heart's connection to it? If everyone did that, we could change the world for the better in an instant.
BE the change you wish to see in the world. Think with your heart!!!
~CSE
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