Is It Helpful?

One of the four questions often asked in Buddhist litergy is this.  Is it helpful?  Is what you are saying helpful?

I have always added to my list this question:
Does this does it bring people closer together?
Does it invite new members?
Does it rise up the human condition?

Or it is from a place of ego? Or shifting responsibility.

Of course, we cannot always do all of this.  I think it is important to consider one's behavior.  Do it better next time.

So often when I see a Facebook poster I often want to leave Fb forever.  Like the poster depicting black warriors asking if this is how you see African men?  I am tired of the downtrodden whining among people.  It isn't my job to lift you up.  I will do what I can.  The job is ultimately yours.  I say that as 51% of a disenfranchised population.  Women.  If these warrior types don't like how they are represented, then don't work as actors in these movies.  This is hardly my issue.

I want to see things that raise the human condition.  People being kind to one another, mentoring, pretty flowers.  Cleaning up a creek.  Standing up for something that truly matters.

Is this helpful?