The Karma of the Bottom Line

Here's to the other side of me. There is nowhere where I show the parts of me that beg revelation. My thoughts, my opinions, strong or otherwise, I don't share so much, just what lessons I get out of them, the life lessons that I teach and blog about. And they are important, but sometimes, so is the process.

Banks. In the old days, banks were institutions which aided and helped people. They charged fees for this and the fees they charged enabled them to be in business. What happened? Greed happened and how sickening it is. I predict the downfall of anythnig and everything that is built to empires based on greed, lust, power struggles and banks are one of them. It is no wonder to me that banks are struggling the way they are. They completely fuck over the people they are meant to serve. Service has been replaced by the bottom line and what they don't seem to understand is that they are not mutually exclusive concepts. In fact, bottom line really only ever goes the miles when it is based on service.

All the industries that are failing, are failing because they are not operating from the place of service, they are operating from the place of mindless, egocentric profit making decisions. The US car industry? They are making cars that are LESS fuel efficient - look at the monsters on the road!! - and spending all their money trying to make you believe that your power, your value and your self-worth are tied up in "larger" and "more". They are spending their money to make you believe that new is the only better and that you are less than if you don't renew (buy a new car every 4 years) with sickening regularity. Why didn't they invest all that money into technologies that SAVE the consumer money? Why are they not investing in the technology they already own? Because they are not service organizations, and they have no real interest in the consumer except for what the consumer can do for them. Their only interest is their own bottom line and saving their own asses. That's called manipulation.

And banks are the same. Today I am sick with anger because of the way they are built and the way they operate. For years they trust you with credit and then their asses are in trouble and they turnaround and DOUBLE your interest - regardless of your spotless track record in paying them their due. That is sick. Their only objective is to suck money out of you. They are not even worthy of my contempt but I am contemptuous because banks are a part of life. I am contemptuous because American banks are self-serving, manipulative institutions that deserve the struggles they have brought upon themselves.

See - we think about karma and we think - of if you hit Jack, you will get hit back and that's karma. Karma is so much more. It works on this incredible micrscopic, cellular level that is almost unfathomable, but the underlying rpinciples touch everything in life. Entire organizations have as much (or more) karma than individuals. There is karma in products that we use, there is karma in words and thoughts, there is karma in the behavior of institutions. History does not alleviate the karma - it comes down to this - either you act out of fear, or you act out of love. Either you serve, or you cover your ass. The karma of service is kindness, enduring profit, legacy, goodness, happiness, joy, love, etc. The karma of fear, as in covering your own sorry ass, is failure, pain, sadness, downfall. There might be some profit, but profit reaped from fear has no value, it is too karmically taxed.

I don't know what these monsters of finance think. Do they believe when they are lying on their deathbed they will magically escape their own conscience? Do they think that the wealth they have amassed is going with them? Do they think they can escape the faces of those who were crushed and covered on the way? Do they really think they can get away with it? As in - their next life is going to be just more of the same, and they'll be born into the same families so they can now spend the fortunes they've amassed? Karma is karma. RAck it up and you have to pay it off. If there's not enough time in this life, there will undoubtedly be plenty in the next.

There there is the health industry which is just as sickening. When the bottom line for providing health care is profit, you have the same problem - lack of service. Service is exchanged for the bottom line. People's lives are exchanged for the bottom line. Do they really think there is no karma tied to this? Do they really think they can lie on their deathbeds free of conscience? Health care as it exists in the States today has to die and I believe it will be a painful death. All those moguls holding on for dear life to that bottom line profit margin and the billions that are meaningless against the face of death, and all because the piles of dollars are more important to them than human life.

Because here's the truth - if all those brains got together to look for human solutions - the world would not need to suffer hunger, many diseases could be wiped out, illiteracy could be obliterated, global warming could be halted in its footsteps, etc etc etc. The moment you seek to serve, you become the healer of the human plight. If all those moguls had any concern about anyone but themselves they have the brain power and the finesse to figure out worthy solutions. They could still charge for their services, just not to the detriment of anyone else.

When service replaces bottom line you have change the karmic outcome of the planet.

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop