GANDHI'S FAITH: MILITANT KINDNESS CAN'T LOSE IN THE END

Gandhi saw that Kindness (nonviolence, or militant kindness by whatever name), will unavoidably succeed in the long term. It cannot fail.

The Almighty ,
kindness cannot fail.
This is PHYSICS,

not metaphysics.

!!!!! "FAITH" !!!!!

Oh my. How Divine. I'm spending days with Oscar Romero's book, "The Violence of Love." !!! IT IS FREE ONLINE !!!!!

And so far the 10 hours or so is just massaging it technically so I can listen when next week I take up the vigil again here in DC.

But I've just noticed a passage that leaves me breathless with its profound encompassing of practically all that I'm learning and valuing:

"Faith is what a child has
when its father puts out his hands
and says, “Jump!”
and the child leaps into space
with the assurance that its fathers hands
won’t let it fall.
This is faith.
It’s what Christ says,
“Those who believe in me
will not be condemned.
Those who surrender,
those who don’t distrust,
who even in the hardest times
believe and hope,
will not be condemned.
But those who don’t believe,
those who won’t leap into Christ’s arms
because they are more anchored
to their earthly things,
those who don’t believe,
those who don’t trust In God,
those who don’t believe
God goes with our history
and is going to save us
are already condemned.

Their life is already a hell..."

Oscar Romero

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...As Hell is the life of
the neglected members
of their 'family.'

Start Loving

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A "RIGHT" = THAT WHICH IS "RIGHT"

Oh my. This is a big breakthu for me.

I've most of my life been unhappy with what I have understood by the word "right," as in - it is your right, or, it is her right....

Profoundly hollow this strikes me. Profoundly disempowering. Loveless. Lifeless this notion of "Right."

Well, something with huge Life, Love and Joy crossed my mind:

A "RIGHT" = THAT WHICH IS "RIGHT"

• It is right that children have food
• It is right that everyone has love
• It is right that everything be shared

A "WRONG" = THAT WHICH IS "WRONG"

• Superfluities are wrong when children starve
• Private ownership of a world God gave us is wrong
• Showering blessings on a few "family" while most "family" has nothing is wrong

According to whom? :-) According to Conscience / the Almighty within us.

PRACTICE AND SPECTATING ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE

I'm thinking of the abomination called "Church."

PRACTICE AND SPECTATING

ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

ONE ANNIHILATES THE OTHER.

CONSTRUCTIVE LEADERSHIP IS THE FOCUSING OF ENERGY

CONSTRUCTIVE LEADERSHIP IS

QUANTUM LIBERATION AND

FOCUSING OF ENERGY

I've known this and profited from the knowledge for decades.

We all, WE ALL focus the energy of others.

Where are you focusing others?

PEACEMAKING: AS MUCH WORK AS GROWING A CHILD

Who in the so called "Peace" movement lives this?

1 in 10,000.

Paraphrasing Dr. King, 'People cry "peace," but they do not do what is required for peace.'

!!!!!!! NO DOUBLE STANDARDS !!!!!!!

If there is one single key to Truth / Life / Love / Nirvana / Heaven / World Family, I think this is it:

NO DOUBLE STANDARDS

NO DOUBLE STANDARDS

NO DOUBLE STANDARDS

NO DOUBLE STANDARDS

As you love yourself,
love others

As you love your dearest,

love everyone

As you house yourself,

house everyone

As you secure dearest,

secure everyone

TO SERVE IS TO BECOME

Think of your:

• Heart
• Liver
• Lungs
• Brain
• Eyes
• Ears
• Skin cells...

When you were in the womb, early on they did NOT serve you. But then THEY BECAME.

TO SERVE IS TO BECOME

WE MUST BECOME.
EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON IT.

BE THE ALMIGHTY INCARNATE

I'm getting brief flashes of this.

When does a glass stop being a glass? When it is full of water.

When does a person stop being a person, when they are full of Love / Life / Truth.

It makes no sense. But we've all sensed it, if only through a haze.

BE THE ALMIGHTY INCARNATE

Sounds grandiose.

It is the height of humility -
surrender, complete surrender
to the Almighty -
Love / Life / Truth.

There is no greater power
that one can be the servant of,

the vessel of.

BRING THE ALMIGHTY TO BEAR

Ok, so what is it you want to see achieved?

If what you have in mind is otherish then learn to:

BE THE ALMIGHTY INCARNATE

FEAR, SELFISHNESS DISPLACE, "KILL" THE ALMIGHTY

Fear and selfishness drive out the Almighty from us.

Fear and selfishness are Sin / Error.

Fear and selfishenss destroy Life / Love / Truth.

GOD IS KINDNESS. PERIOD. YES?

I know I've described God / the Almighty differently in many other posts.

GOD IS KINDNESS.
PERIOD. YES?

!!!!! SUFFERING FOR JOY !!!!!!

Well,

that's how it is. Staring me right in the face but only now do the words come together:

!!!!!! SUFFERING FOR JOY !!!!!!

Suffering for Joy is why we:

• Bear children
• Raise children
• Nurse loved ones through trial and sickness....

JOY'S THE REWARD FOR SUFFERING FOR LOVE!

JOY'S THE REWARD FOR SUFFERING FOR LOVE

Think being Kind.

Think great parenting.

Think responding to a neighbor's emergency.

How do you know "good art?"

You do of course. And scholarly studies indicate that this is a trans human, trans global phenomenon.

How? You are wired for it. You are wired for it just as you are wired to see, hear, taste, walk....

How do you know what is right and wrong?

HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS
THE WILL OF THE ALMIGHTY?

HEROES ARE THE ONLY HEALTHY AMONG US

Picture an American Indian tribe of the 1500's. An emergency befalls the tribe. How many would NOT behave heroically? None?

Why? Because, unlike we, had not lost their connection to the "others."

There are groups now, and always have been where the simplest, most normal people are HEROES.

Think "Forrest Gump."

BEING LESS THAN A HERO IS ILLNESS

Think American Children; being less than robust is illness - an unnatural state for the species Human:





Think Darfurie Children:

HARVESTING IS EASY. GROWING IS HARD.

Hmmm. I'll need your help, much imagination on this post because real clear examples are not coming to my mind.

I'd rather be a Steve Beko than an Nelson Mandella.

I'd rather be the soldiers of "Glory" than Martin Luther King.

I'd rather be young Gandhi in South Africa than old Gandhi in India.

Dr. King said, and I paraphrase, 'Well, don't think I am instrumental to the advances in rights that we are seeing. The time is right for them. I just happen to be here."

The time is right because of the efforts of unknown, unnamed, unheralded "growers" 5, 10, 50 years earlier.

King, an incredible Saint, was there to harvest their decades and centuries of "growing."

I want to be a "grower."

HYPOCRITE: "ACTOR;" "PLAYING A PART"

Hypocrite, and this definition from the Greek ("actor," "playing a part") are central to Tolstoy's brilliant works and analysis of the Hell of things.

Christ calls us to be true to the Almighty within us - Conscience, the still small voice within.

SOCIETY, the STATE call us to be SUPREMELY obedient to Government, Law, Convention, Norms.

These are the two choices - the polar opposites of existence.

Jesus was most
horrified by the Hypocrites.

ORGANIZED RELIGION? ORGANIZED LOVE? ORGANIZED PARENTING?...

Hmmm.

We have "organized religion."

Let's have "organized parenting."

Let's have "organized marriage."

OXYMORON:
YOU CANNOT HAVE
"ORGANIZED RELIGION."
IT STOPS BEING "RELIGION"
WHEN IT BECOMES "ORGANIZED"

"CHRIST" MEANS "CONSCIOUSNESS"

From Gnostic Christianity.

The goal of Gnostic Christianity then is to raise consciousness by elevating the rational element of consciousness to the same level as the logos, again meaning the logic or reasoning of God. This goal is achieved when we understand a new theory of human nature that Jesus revealed because that theory justifies nonjudgmental rules of logic that empower us to reason in ways that are comparable to that of the logos of God. With that godlike potential for reasoning, we will expand the context in which we think and become conscious in a nonjudgmental and loving, godlike way. This is what Paul means by "we [meaning Gnostic Christians] are those who have the mind of Christ." (1Co 2:16 jbv)

King, Jesus, Gandhi... CRAZY!x?!* KNOW WHAT THEY WANT?!?!?!?

They suggest we discard all selfish thoughts and turn ourselves over totally to serving all of humanity!!!!!!

:-) :-) :-) :-)

Overwhelmed. In the hands of the Almighty.

I don't know how else to describe how I feel right now. It is Awesome. Heaven.

It is no one thing, but a product of things as I sit here today:

• A morning of listening to the Divine "This I Believe" by Leo Tolstoy
• An hour listening to quotes from the Divine Dr. ML King
• Chronic pain on my feet from all the marching for Darfur
• Chronic pain we in Darfur feel
• Beginning to "get it," what Jesus died to teach us.
• Agonizing over the UN / World / Bashir haggling over Darfur.
• Hopeful: UK, France modify UN text on new Darfur force
  Mon 30 Jul 2007, 16:05 GMT [-] Text [+] By Evelyn Leopold

Oh God. It is Divine to be near Your will. Bliss. Agony.

LOVING. THE ONE, TRUE RELIGION

OK.
What was Jesus' religion?

What was Jesus "religious" about?

And Gandhi?

And Dr. King?

And Assisi?

Eleanor Roosevelt?

LOVING
The one true Religion
of all the human "greats."

THE LESS I'M "A" CHRISTIAN THE MORE CHRISTIAN I BECOME

Yes, yes I've been yammering on this topic for a long time. But I'm trying to really grasp the truth of what gnaws at me.

"A" Christian and Christian
are direct opposites.

THE CHOICE: MAN AS "COG"
OR MAN AS "SON OF GOD"

Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel Quotes

• “In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves”
• “A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”
• “Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy”
• “When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.”
• “Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.”
• “Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”
• “To be is to stand for.”
• “A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.”
• “The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance.”
• “Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”

IGNORE THIS SITE AND READ TOLSTOY

As I march at the Sudan Embassy with an MP3 Player I can study. This week it was Tolstoy.

IGNORE THIS SITE AND READ TOLSTOY

• What I Believe, by Leo Tolstoy et al.


• The Kingdom of God Is Within You by graf Leo Tolstoy - Project ...

DO IT. NOW.

WHEN IS IT HUMANE TO NOT DO "GOOD?"

WHEN IS IT HUMANE TO NOT DO "GOOD?"

• When I don't feel like it?
• When I want to just think of my "family?"
• When it is unclear that I am "really" not doing good?
• When it is hard to tell?
• When everyone else is doing no "good?"
• When it is "normal?"
• When it is OK according to the "church?"
• When it is the same as what everyone else does?
• When it will cost my life?
• When it will cost my comfort?
• When it might cost my "family?"
• When it might cost arrest and Prison?
• When it might get me shot?
• When it might confuse or upset others?
• When I have not support or accomplices?
• When no one agrees with my actions?
• When my actions break the law?
• When property is damaged?

WHEN IS JUST A TINY, HIDDEN MURDER OK?

Murder:

1. I point a gun and fire.
2. I walk away from an extreme risk, extreme cost opportunity to Save(Darfur when my action might spur others to stop a Genocide - BY COVERING WITH BLOOD THE CHINESE OR SUDAN EMBASSIES, FOR EXAMPLE. Sudan officially rejects revised UN text on Darfur force)

When is it ok?

• I've been really good.
• I've served Darfur heroically.
• When I don't feel like it?
• When I want to just think of my "family?"
• When it is unclear that I am "really" not doing good?
• When it is hard to tell?
• When everyone else is doing no "good?"
• When it is "normal?"
• When it is OK according to the "church?"
• When it is the same as what everyone else does?
• When it will cost my life?
• When it will cost my comfort?
• When it might cost my "family?"
• When it might cost arrest and Prison?
• When it might get me shot?
• When it might confuse or upset others?
• When I have not support or accomplices?
• When no one agrees with my actions?
• When my actions break the law?
• When property is damaged?

MURDER IS NEVER OK.

IT IS NEVER OK TO VIOLATE: "Do unto others ALL that you would have them do unto you."

WHEN'S IT OK TO IGNORE THE ALMIGHTY?

WHEN'S IT OK TO IGNORE THE ALMIGHTY?

• 1 minute per day?
• 2 minutes per day?
• 364 days per year?

When's it OK? IT DEPENDS:

• What kind of life do you want?
• What kind of world to you want?
• What kind of world and life do you want for others?