Right Use of Energy

Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval. John 6:27

The work spoken of here is Right Livelihood. What work do we do each day? Where do we expend our energy? Not just in our job but in every waking moment? One of the biggest works that we do each day is to think.
Rephrase this text: Do not put your energy into thinking that spoils, but intothinking that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.
So the ‘Son of Man’ will give us thinking, the Christed man will give us thinking that endures. But he won’t be able to do that if our energy goes into food that spoils. Food that spoils would be abstract thinking, negative thinking, isolated thinking and specially truncated thinking – which is when we get lazy and don’t carry our thoughts through to their final conclusion. Any thinking that does not contain the right effort, control and balance is food that spoils.
A Japanese researcher, Mr Emoto, has studied how human energy; thoughts, words, ideas and music, affect the molecularstructure of water. He photographed the crystalline structures formed in water after prayer, after aggression and other human thoughts and emotions. Prayer produces beautiful snowflake shapes and anger produces a murky mess.* If this is true is raises the alarm when we consider that the human body and this planet is mostly water.
Are we working for food that spoils or endures? Mr Emoto’s work seems to prove that we can easily make the choice and easily make a difference. Regardless, nothing is more important than for us to strive to be conscious. The only thing that makes us conscious is our thinking. Our feeling levels are not conscious; they are in a dreamy state. Our willing is unconscious. We can only become conscious in our feeling and willing levels though our I AM. In the meantime, this stage in the evolution of consciousness is a mine-field of half-baked ideas, ideas that are not fully tested or openly discussed. So our work, our thinking, which occupies our day, produces food that spoils, until now.
So we must start with thinking. One way to sharpen our dull thinking is by reminding ourselves that thoughts are real and their effects are a reality in our environment. Theosophists Besant and Leadbeater published a book illustrating various thought-forms that they saw. Thinking daggers was a reality for them.
Buddhists generally speak about Right Livelihood in terms of business transactions. Do not: (a) trade in deadly weapons (b) trade in animals for slaughter (c) trade in slavery (d) trade in intoxicants (e) trade in poisons.
Our thoughts can indeed be deadly, intoxicating, enslaving and poisonous. Our thoughts - that we regard as so private - definitely affect others. Until we become conscious of this we do not work for food that endures. Until we take up our God-given right to accept responsibility for the effects of our thoughts we work for food that spoils.
Buddhism is a way of peace and since Christ peace is a personal, inner practice. It is not imposed on us from outside, by protests, boycotts, kidnapping and the barbaric beheadings of militant middle easterners. Our peace can only be achieved in our thoughts. How quickly can we restore peace when our thoughts rage? How quickly can we invoke the imagination that Christ stands before us speaking his greeting, “Peace be with you”, so that the water molecules in our body can become calm, even in a most angry moment?
On the other hand, peace is not achieved by ‘dumbing-down’ our thoughts and feelings. Peace is active, not externally but by an inner activity. By using our will to control our thinking, so that the feeling of peace radiates from our heart, we achieve Right Livelihood. Then we are free; nothing can touch us. At the same time, we will touch others; they will experience this peace in the waters of their own body. Their water molecules will take on the beautiful shapes that our peace produces. Go in peace. *http://www.wellnessgoods.com/messages.asp