The Buddha taught, “As with her life a mother cares for her own, her only child, so in your hearts and minds let there be boundless love for all creatures great and small.”4 That was the faith that the Buddha spent forty-five years of his life trekking the length and breadth of India to share with all he met.
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10.29.2018
Vaillant.... The Buddha taught, “As with her life a mother cares for her own, her only child, so in your hearts and minds let there be boundless love for all creatures great and small.”4 That was the faith that the Buddha spent forty-five years of his life trekking the length and breadth of India to share with all he met.
4.24.2015
4.18.2015
***** SPDF Day 47: STOP. WATCH THIS. vid. 5 min. Omer Goldman, daughter of the former deputy head of Mossad, and who is still considered as one of the most powerful men in the Israeli security system, refuses to serve in the IDF. Omer visited a Palestinian town in the West Bank without her father's permission, where she, along with other Palestinians (her supposed enemies), were fired upon by Israeli soldiers (her supposed allies).
4.14.2015
4.06.2015
4.04.2015
SPDF vlog Day 33: My dearest loved ones, you were right. We never belonged together.
We are not emotionally together now, we're emotionally separated now, and we were never spiritually joined. True spiritual joining is so rare in this sick culture of ours, practically never happens, one in a million.
As I think of those of you who have been in proximity to my life no discredit to me, no discredit to you, we were never spiritually together except for maybe a moment here or a moment there in just one maybe three of the cases I can think of (with the exception of my Dad with whom I was intimately, and only, Spiritually United)..
It's not your fault. It's not my fault.
I worship, I revere, I adore the truth no matter how painful it might be in the same way any drowning person reveres firm land coming under their feet. That firm land makes Life possible, without it, only drowning is possible. We are taught to tolerate and even find pleasure in drowning. I never learned that lesson. When I'm not standing on, when I don't understand, when I'm not grasped by the truth, I experience myself as drowning and in entire misery.
This Stop Palestines Death Fast campaign I am on has produced a final separation with maybe all of you. One in particular, the person who I have loved above all, has finally manifest her separation from me totally, frigidly, sharply, finally, absolutely, Truly. I view this with a sense of relief, gratitude, Joy... all of these separations, simply because the manifest the underlying truth that I think we all must have realized was there. All of you to whom I am referring, to some degree we wanted to be spiritually together, to some degree we wanted to be in relationship, and to some degree you and certainly I realized that spiritual unity was not the Truth for us.
Several days ago I vlogged, wrote that for the first time I am recalling that I had extremely sharp eyes for spotting people that belonged on extreme performance teams that I needed to establish, and to spot those who did not belong on those teams. And that as expert I was at that I admitted that I have been that much of a failure at spotting other relationships that should be or not the in my life, that could or, in the vast or total majority, could not work.
That same insight of just several days ago applies to what I am sharing here. All of you who have been in some proximity to me, I can see now, using the eyes that I now know to select, I concede now that we had a mutual desire and affection, but that it never could have been; I see that totally, so clearly, now. We are not destined to be on the same teams, on the same missions, devoted to the same goals. I am a profoundly different species of human, sort of. You are the profoundly different species from me. You are the near total majority. I the near entire outsider, foreigner, alien. You are of society. I am devoted to heal it.
No discredit to me. No discredit to you. No credit to me. No credit to you.
I find this comforting, comforting with respect to my future, comforting with respect to feeling less clueless, less of a failure but that's not a problem with me. But less of a failure in that I see that what I wanted so much, spiritual unity, was not a failure of my efforts, but a failure of my initial and ongoing perception, vision of what was possible, which is now being radically corrected. And surely I don't see it as a failure on your part anymore than on mine. Round pegs don't fit square holes, and versa visa.
My loving of you all is unconditional. It is neither increased nor diminished by these insights of recent days. My Loving of you is infinite.
What separates us exactly is the capacity for a life of unconditional loving.
Whatever life I have left will be devoted to being unconditional loving for the possibility of thereby, and only in the way, spreading unconditional loving by example to you and others.
Yes. Of course. The odds are that I will continue to totally, profoundly, absolutely, pitifully fail. But I'll not fail to try, with my every breath.
4.01.2015
SPDF Day 30 vlog: On Sanity, and Insanity
I consider the desire to control the lives of others is insane, pathological, and that sanity is the willingness to pay joyfully with one's life if necessary that others can be free of the control of any one beside themselves.
I consider it insane to choose a life of pleasure over a life of service, and that sanity is exactly choosing the life of service over a life of pleasure.
I deem that our American culture is profoundly insane.
It seems to me that the only sane cultures that I see today are the indigenous Palestinians, although I can't yet reconcile how they keep having children in such a hellish environment, seems cruel and selfish; some of the indigenous of America and Canada that are putting their lives in the way of the destruction of their/ our world.
Among so called activists I see only the International Solidarity Movement as probably very sane; along with, possibly, Sea Shepherds. The rest I see as wallowing in a self-gratifying lifestyle choice of doing what is safe and convenient, or even more so, but by not being willing and eager to pay the ultimate price for our fellow humans, as I said at the top, insane.
3.27.2015
SPDF Day 25: nd. 'A person that would not die for ...
SPDF Day 25: 'A person that would not die for a cause, or for another, is not alive,' MLK Jr paraphrase.
3.26.2015
Big-Hearted Chef Serves Up 1 Millionth Free Meal in California
Big-Hearted Chef Serves Up 1 Millionth Free Meal in California
http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/making-a-difference/big-hearted-chef-serves-1-millionth-free-meal-california-n330926
3.08.2015
2.02.2015
***** FB friend: "James, Good to see someone so devoted." My reply: "I appreciate the kind and encouraging words. I tried self-centeredness for, oh, 45 years or so. It sucks. So since then I've tried other-centeredness, and it is a Joy. That's it. Those are the choices. The only hope for the world's future is, and has ever been, that one by one, we start a mass flip from self-centeredness (me and mine) to other-centeredness (lived solidarity with the global neediest). That's really the only choice each of us has to make of any consequence whatsoever. All of the rest is a consequence of that. In that we choose to be cancer, or healthy tissue."
I appreciate the kind and encouraging words. I tried self-centeredness
for, oh, 45 years or so. It sucks. So since then I've tried
other-centeredness, and it is a Joy. That's it. Those are the
choices. The only hope for the world's future is, and has ever been,
that one by one, we start a mass flip from self-centeredness (me and
mine) to other-centeredness (lived solidarity with the global
neediest). That's really the only choice each of us has to make of any
consequence whatsoever. All of the rest is a consequence of that. In
that we choose to be cancer, or healthy tissue.
1.13.2015
***** Francis... ' ‘You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich.’ These were St. Ambrose’s words, which Pope Paul VI used to state, in Populorum Progressio, that private property does not constitute an absolute and unconditional right for anyone, and that no one is allowed to keep for their exclusive use things superfluous to their needs, when others lack basic necessities
12.23.2013
11.24.2013
***** “If you don’t experience earth as the living Hell we’ve made it... You’re already Dead... as our culture makes us... as I’ve been. As Jesus saw. It’s almost too late to save.” Loving
“If you don’t experience earth as
the living Hell we’ve made it...
You’re already Dead...
as our culture makes us...
as I’ve been.
As Jesus saw.
It’s almost too late to save.”
Loving
11.18.2013
***** pic. True Non-violence (non-Evil): To be a Totally Commited Soldier to changing the Heart of Human Kind in favor of Brotherhood, Humanity, Loving, Solidarity; to be absolutely at personal unviolent war to this end. Historically this is Obvious.
True Non-violence (non-Evil):
To be a Totally Committed Soldier Warring to change the Heart of Human Kind in favor of Brotherhood, Humanity, Loving, Solidarity; to be absolutely at personal
unviolent war to this end.
Historically this is Obvious.
11.17.2013
***** pic. Fellow asks Jesus, 'So, why do you allow things like famine, war, suffering, disease, crime, homelessness, despair, etc, exist in our world?' Jesus - 'I was about to ask you the same thing.'
***** pic. Fellow asks Jesus, 'So, why do you allow things like famine, war, suffering, disease, crime, homelessness, despair, etc, exist in our world?' Jesus - 'I was about to ask you the same thing.'
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