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Showing posts with label Gandhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gandhi. Show all posts
8.15.2021
4.08.2020
1.07.2020
Nonviolent political action, Ultimate Death Trap? The attempt to establish directly a more just world micro or macro. What?
tragically this seems like a funny analogy. Herding cats is not a thing. It is anything but funny. It is the ultimate in tragedy. It could be the tombStone on civilization.
The tragic flaw for Martin Luther King Jr, Mandela, and Gandhi until the end when he woke up.
What? Herding cats is not a thing.
Groups of people are not a biological, real, thing. Don't be confused by their interrelatedness and mutual influence.
There is no one thing that a hospital can impose on each of the patients and cause help for any one of them. They are individuals. They can be made individually healthy or allowed to be unhealthy.
Although no one wants to face this the War on Drugs is another such situation . Hundreds of billions of dollars countless lives have been sacrificed on this. as long as people want those substances they will find a way to get them and people will find a way to supply them.
Jesus, the man, this mistake never made. Neither in word nor deed. It is the only hopeful thing which could ever result in Collective Justice. He works to heal the individual soul, the individual mammalian brain, the Supra conscious as Sorokin so brilliantly enumerates.
Everything else including well intended so called nonviolent political action is energy away from this only thing that could ever produce a Humanity that wanted peace over War, loving over hate.
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The tragic flaw for Martin Luther King Jr, Mandela, and Gandhi until the end when he woke up.
What? Herding cats is not a thing.
Groups of people are not a biological, real, thing. Don't be confused by their interrelatedness and mutual influence.
There is no one thing that a hospital can impose on each of the patients and cause help for any one of them. They are individuals. They can be made individually healthy or allowed to be unhealthy.
Although no one wants to face this the War on Drugs is another such situation . Hundreds of billions of dollars countless lives have been sacrificed on this. as long as people want those substances they will find a way to get them and people will find a way to supply them.
Jesus, the man, this mistake never made. Neither in word nor deed. It is the only hopeful thing which could ever result in Collective Justice. He works to heal the individual soul, the individual mammalian brain, the Supra conscious as Sorokin so brilliantly enumerates.
Everything else including well intended so called nonviolent political action is energy away from this only thing that could ever produce a Humanity that wanted peace over War, loving over hate.
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1.03.2020
1.02.2020
12.26.2019
My best current guess is that Tolstoy and Jesus were entirely and profoundly correct. And that therefore king and Gandhi were horribly mis directed bless their souls. Man is incapable of living joyfully with in the violence sustained state.
Even a week or so ago these words spoken just now by James would have struck James as ridiculous Li idealistic, dogmatic, cerebral.
But when in history has the state been the servant of the masses? It has been the servant of the handful elite.
James thinks it only cowardice within himself to speculate that maybe hes incorrect in this . And it
12.24.2019
12.19.2019
Update. If I said nothing else to you.... The complete, law of Love, law of violence. L Tolstoy.
I do know that about Tolstoy. No life and writings of Tolstoy, then, no Gandhi (Tolstoy's, the kingdom of God is within you) and quite possibly no Martin Luther King jr. ( the law of love and the law of violence L Tolstoy)
Important correction, update. Where's the document now in front of me visually everything from chapter 12 or 13 on word has a very high percentage of correctness. The entire book is worth reading. And also the appendix is extremely helpful.
12.17.2019
12.15.2019
Different approach. How would Tolstoy be correct? On what basis? That constructing the world of loving, soul in charge, is the most joyful pursuit no matter what.
If Tolstoy says this at any point James has not yet found it or recognized it. But this is a lens through which James needs to consider Tolstoy now.
12.14.2019
central truth of his indictment of the present system, which is to understand and act upon the irresistible power of the soul over the body, of love, which is an attribute of the soul, over the brute or body force generated by the stirring up in us of evil passions.
central truth of his indictment of the present system, which is to understand and act upon the irresistible power of the soul over the body, of love, which is an attribute of the soul, over the brute or body force generated by the stirring up in us of evil passions.
Tolstoy self redeemed. From letters to Gandhi. Loving....
The more I live—and specially now that I am approaching death, the more I feel inclined to express to others the feelings which so strongly move my being, and which, according to my opinion, are of great importance. That is, what one calls nonresistance, is in reality nothing else but the discipline of love undeformed by false interpretation. Love is the aspiration for communion and solidarity with other souls, and that aspiration always liberates the source of noble activities. That love is the supreme and unique law of human life which everyone feels in the depth of one's soul. We find it manifested most clearly in the soul of the infants. Man feels it so long as he is not blinded by the false doctrines of the world.
Leo Tolstoy. Maybe found the truth in the last 20 years. From the book, Gandhi Tolstoy letters.
The Law of Violence and the Law of Love, and in his essay, “The only Commandment,” written a few years before his death, Tolstoy discusses the reasons why educated people, and even those who claim to be religious, ignore this eternal, all embracing law of love. Tolstoy asserts that love purifies the individual and is the essence of life. The fruit of love is happiness. Happiness comes not because man loves his fellowmen but because he loves the source of all, namely God. God dwells in all of us and therefore man recognizes God in himself through love and extends this love to all men. Man needs to let love in and squeeze out hatred, guile and vengeance from his being.
12.07.2019
12.05.2019
Gigantic aha, Reading Tolstoy's Kingdom of God is within you. Created Gandhi. Nonviolence is about personal joy. Who the f*** knew? Do, be, radically good. That's all.
This is new and therefore tentative but seems like an extraordinary useful insight for James.
James experience is to constantly sense that a realm has been pinnacled only to find out that simply it provided a better vantage point to see the
6.09.2019
TOLSTOY. FOUR GOSPELS TRANSLATED, HARMONIZED.
This book created the three greatest souls of the last 150 years, Tolstoy, MLK Jr, Gandhi, and fed Walter Rauschenbush, and countless others, directly and indirectly.
THINK. WHAT DO WE NEED MORE THAN SUCH SOULS AS THESE?
THEREFORE, WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MASTERING THIS AND THE OFFSHOOT WORKS OF TOLSTOY IN THESE LAST 40 YEARS OF HIS LIFE?
IF NOT YOU, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
THIS FOLDER HAS THE NOW COMPLETE AND CLEAN WORKS. ADDITIONAL FORMATS WILL BE ADDED. The word documents in particular can be cleanly READ TO YOU while you are otherwise occupied with mindless tasks with @voice (smartphone) or similar apps.
I find error in this work, if that is the correct word. And I think it is not error, but strategic calculation on the part of Tolstoy. I'm quite sure, strategic decision.
What is that? It is entirely Jesus teaching's centric. But as clarified in the final 2 chapters of his The Kingdom of God is Within You, the book that created Gandhi, he was deeply aware of how many millions, now billions, knew of Jesus, and thereby the potential of shocking out of the dogma into Jesus human teachings.
Point being, I do not believe that Tolstoy preferred the truths of Jesus vs the truths of Confucious, Buddha, Hillel, Amos, Muhammad... where they overlap with those of Jesus. Truth is Truth, Math is Math.
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