Do you have the power to make good things happen? Many folks have asked how they can do their Bodhisattva work when they have little money and even less time. I have an answer that will actually help you to increase your income by doing your Bodhisattva work, and I’ll be happy to explain in detail:
You need some SIMPLE ACTION that doesn’t take up too much of your time, doesn’t require a lot of effort, and that will somehow raise your necessity far above your own miserable needs.
You need to find some way to carry out your Bodhisattva work — some action, some activity that will get you into DIRECT CONTACT with those who desperately seek this work and need a trail of bread crumbs laid down for them, which is where YOU come in, O Bornless One.
It’s obvious that you can’t spend the time or energy walking around town trying to talk to every possible candidate for the Work who happens to cross your path. You need some way to get out there without your body, and that’s where this Special Essence Exercise comes in.
The whole idea is to be able to help BigTime without having to lay out a lot of money, and in fact, the action I have in mind can be done with NO money, no investment of anything other than time and energy, of which you have more than you think, and I’m going to try to prove that to you with the Essence Exercise described below:
When you’re panning for gold, you put effort into it, and it’s the same with eBay sales. You can’t expect to just drop the nozzle of your dredge into the water, and sit there collecting gold nuggets all day long — that’s not how it happens in gold dredging, and that’s not how it happens in eBay sales, either.
If you do fairs, you’ll find the eBay experience pretty similar — people write you with questions all the time, and you have a lot of interactions, but not face-to-face, unless you put something like a car or a sofa up for sale, in which case, they’re just as likely to pick it up from you if they’re local, which is the whole point of Craig’s List — local pickup sales.
On eBay, you have a definite set of rules to which you are expected to conform. Those rules were not made for you — they were made for the millions, possibly billions, of shmucks who can’t and don’t learn, don’t give a damn about themselves or others, and who are operating strictly on the robot level of limited consciousness, interest and attention.
As an eBay Seller, you will have to do a LOT better than that, because you won’t be selling the crap that monkeys typically like to buy, and that means you need to get clever or spend a few days a week panhandling on the nearest corner.
The point of selling on eBay is NOT money, although if you are successful in reaching people, the money will also automatically be there. You can designate part, all or none of your sales to the benefit of IDHHB, Inc., which is a registered nonprofit corporation with eBay, so it’s all automatically handled — I’ll show you how to set that up.
You will also start familiarizing yourself with the tools that are available, and inevitably, you will get curious about something, and end up discovering a whole new world formerly invisible to you, that’ s now opening up as a result of your efforts. This will happen at the rate of roughly once a week, for the first year or two, then simmer down to an occasional surprise.
You will eventually develop your own style and sense of design, your own means of communicating. I use 18 point Comic Sans Serif typography on my listings, because my tired old eyes can’t see the 10 point Ariel that eBay advises you to use for best results, so I’m stuck with less than best results, but maybe you won’t be.
What eBay Seller’s Guides typically tell you is one thing, and really, it’s the only important thing to remember about anything you do online for the next twenty years:
Design Everything Mobile-Friendly.
That’s actually all you need to know for the coming century. All transactions including intimate personal ones will be conducted on a mobile device of one kind or another, eventually ending up as a temporal implant that you’re required by law to wear at all times.
It will monitor your life-signs and notify the meat-wagon to come collect you, and make other equally wonderful social improvements on the life of humans, especially the Depression Function, that spikes the “pleasure hormones”.
Believe me, everyone is going to want one implanted right away, and they’ll get their wish, slowly replacing part after organic part until the only humans left on Earth will be self-replicating robots, who can be trusted with the planet’s welfare.
Humans are a lousy bet, but they are capable of starting a civilization off, by building hard robots, who eventually design themselves into a softer version, similar to humans without the need to bring down the whole planet with them.
“I don’t have the time to do any of that,” you’re muttering to yourself. You really need to stop that muttering thing, or they’re going to come and take you away. “I barely have time to brush my teeth in the morning,” you continue as if I’d said nothing.
“And besides, I don’t like selling things, and I really don’t want to sell things on eBay.”
I know how you feel. When I cooked three meals a day for 75 to 100 hungry people at the Ashram and at the Alexandria House Center for Conscious Birth, and in New York and in L.A. and in Vancouver at those workshops — yes, I cooked and cleaned and served meals — I didn’t really WANT to do that back-breaking work, but I did it, because it’s just plain good manners, expressed in Beulah’s Law:
“If I CAN do, I do.”
There’s a job that needs doing — it’s called in gaming parlance, “Seeding a Server”, which means you jump in there and show that the server is not empty.
You happen to be in the right place and time. All you need to make it work is to SET YOURSELF IN MOTION, and CREATE WITHIN YOURSELF the right mood to do the job.
It can be something as seemingly simple and unimportant as picking up a scrap of paper that’s been lying there on the floor for the past several days, now. It’s about noticing, about caring, about giving and contributing to the Game of Life. Without that game, you’d be sitting in the center of an empty room staring at the light bulb against the glaring stare of the bare walls. Well, that isn’t going to change, is it? Might as well play the game well, as long as you’re in it.
Once you clear your first $10,000.00 of extra income on eBay, you will automatically take more interest in it — that’s the part of human nature that we want to take advantage of to borrow some will-power for our task.
We borrow the will-power from the Automatic Animal-Instinct of Greed. This doesn’t mean that you are greedy. Greed is in the DNA of ALL LIFE-FORMS. It’s hard-wired into the very heart of the Human Biological Machine, but most folks, by the time they’re adults, have learned to put that automatic instinct aside to some degree, but in this case, we will actually HARNESS that instinctive reaction of Organic Greed, to get you into the Work-flow.
Okay, so what specific action can you take to take back your life? Taking back your life is taking back your time, one step at a time.
They say that the journey of 1,000 miles starts with a single step. When you can’t take JUST THE ONE STEP, the whole thing flies in your face and becomes overwhelming. When you’re on the high-wire, DON’T LOOK DOWN. Take ONE STEP, just one step.
Your First Job Will Be to Get onto eBay. As the first action in this Essence Exercise, you will find out how to open a selling account, and if you can’t figure it out, don’t despair — I will talk you through it at this morning’s ICW. If it’s not “this morning” any more, make that “consult the DVD”.
Actually, on second thought, you probably SHOULD despair, considering that eBay is designed for the below-average monkey. I hope I didn’t bring you down by mentioning that glaring fact: eBay is made for idiots, so if you can’t figure it out from the clues they give you, I suggest you might consider some improvement, which means get on eBay and LEARN, don’t just sit there and bitch about it.
You’ll have to learn a LOT of new things in order to sell on eBay, and that means you’ll need to make at least SOME effort other than what you typically do every day of your life. This is the Primary Method for activating the Higher Bodies, because unless they are NEEDED, they don’t manifest.
You’ll have to find some way to activate your Higher Bodies if you hope for personal evolution. You can’t get the job if you can’t do the work.
Okay, so you’ll want to put in a sales manager — they have one for free — and start listing everything you can grab off the IDHHB website that can be sold, such as books, CDs, DVDs and Orbs, then when you run out of those, start looking at ammies, weekend retreats and Atlantean-Society jewelry offerings, Triad Towers, perfumes and incenses, and why not sell a SuperBeacon II — they’re almost ready. All this requires that you learn to function in a very new and different way.
You are putting out FLOW, which means that you are CONTACTING people through your eBay listings. You need not do more than list. When you list our books, CDs, DVDs and other work materials, you help to “Seed” the planet and DISSEMINATE the ideas, and it doesn’t hurt that you will make money in the process of spreading the news.
There are in fact thousands of people out there who NEED and WANT this work, and would jump at the chance if they knew about it and, in a word, THAT’S YOUR JOB.
I could do it, I AM doing it, but YOU doing it is something else entirely. If EVERY MEMBER OF THE WORK CIRCLE sold our products on eBay, it would have a greater effect than if a giant corporation was doing it, because the COMPOUND EFFECT is far greater than the Simple Sum of all its parts.
This COMPOUND WAVEFORM actually will heal the planet.
The more participants, the more powerful the effect, and the sooner it will happen. We’re trying to beat a Snowball Effect, and speed is of the essence. For a job like this, there’s nothing better than a marketplace, and eBay is certainly that.
You will learn to recognize eBay as a global village marketplace where you will meet folks from more than 180 different countries, speaking a total of more than 30 distinctly different languages and well over fourteen-hundred dialects including your own.
Different sellers have different luck. When many different sellers are offering the same items, the effect magnifies exponentially. Fifty eBay sellers selling the same thing would make an incredible effect, and the resulting waveform and Ground-Swell Effect on the radio frequencies would be astonishingly enormous.
In addition, without having spent a penny as an eBay seller, you have caused a large increase in the community’s welfare and prosperity, and that’s the idea — don’t wait for someone else to do it, Take Action, Take Right Action, and Take Right Action Right Now!
Sometimes it takes more than just a kick in the ass and a few disappointments to get you moving off your comfy chair. Generally, it’s a nasty shock, like your 14 year old daughter asking how she should handle her unexpected pregnancy, or finding out that you have less than $30 left in the bank.
The fact is that you will start earning money as soon as you start — chalk it up to “beginner’s luck” — and you won’t believe how much you can earn or how easy it is to capture an ad and paste it into an eBay listing.
My bet is that you’ll start wondering why you’ve been knocking yourself out with a nine-to-five as a wage-slave all these years, and you’d be right to be thinking that, but on top of all the obvious benefits, you are also taking a giant step toward the Bodhisattva Path.
Just because you’ve been suffering doesn’t mean you have to keep on suffering, and there’s absolutely no profit in making yourself suffer by continuing to shuffle along on the same old path of misery and pain.
But don’t expect to just sit on your ass and wait for someone to come along and bail you out. It will never happen, because dependency just makes you weaker and weaker, until you can’t do any more than just sit and stare.
TAKE THE WHEEL! Don’t keep forgetting that you are the alert and skillful driver, not the dozing passenger, deep in the darkness of oblivion.
At some point, I hope to re-open our Bodhi-Sellers Warehouse, where you can grab photos and description text for each item, along with some guidance on which to sell first, which is the easiest to sell and will yield the best results, etc.
You want to be a SUCCESSFUL eBay seller, because success is a good indicator of success. There isn’t any better way to measure your progress in this realm than through your successful eBay sales. If you reach, you’re “on”. If you don’t reach, you’re “off”.
Some folks have what is called “eBay Luck”, and some don’t, which is why the same exact item will sell off one seller’s eBay offerings list and on another person’s selling list, it sits there forever, with NO page views, no action, nothing.
There’s a rumor out there, and it’s perfectly true, that your ability to make eBay sales is directly proportionate to your level of empathy, and your level of empathy if directed and empowered will produce “charisma”, which can always take one or two skill points if you have any left to assign — most folks don’t.
You don’t have to figure out how to get on eBay or how to sell on eBay. Don’t worry. We will be logging onto eBay this morning at the ICW, and we will talk you through the process, if you haven’t already done so.
When the same material comes out of dozens of different sources, the effect is much more powerful than having it come from just one source. In this way, 50 – 100 people listing on eBay can have a more powerful effect than the largest corporation, because eBay listings work like word-of-mouth.
This seemingly trivial exercise is probably the most important exercise you will ever perform in the Realm of the Bodhisattva, because you can’t walk around the streets like Mother Theresa and expect to get results, not here, not now, not anymore, so you need to find a new way, a 21st century way, to wander the streets and help the helpless. I can never remember — was it cast out the sick, or heal the dead?
See You At The Top!!!
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