Sunday, 22 August 2010
Goodness
We should strive to be influenced by the positive aspect of a person's character. The temptation of our humanity is that we often take goodness for granted and we get influenced more by negative attitudes.Then we are locked in a cycle of ignorance and sin which only ends in nihilism. The practice of virtue consists in being influenced by the good of the other person and excusing his/her ills. it is only in doing this that we discard evil and perpetuate goodness. He who is adept at seeing the bad aspect of the other is he whom Christ says : even what he has would be taken away from him. We build our humanity only by the practice of seeing goodness!
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Hierarchies of Wisdom
We have 4 stages and hierarchies to wisdom: Followers, Leaders, Elders and Ancestors. To progress and live the authenticity of each, we must broaden our hearts and live love.Caritas.This is the great energy that can always make us progress from one level of wisdom to the other. For Followers to progress towards leadership, they must practice what I call 'eucharia', i.e gratitude. This spirit of gratitude which enables the Follower to be humble and obedient is what propels him to move to the 2nd hierarchy. A truly gratuitous mind is humble and is willing to obey and abide by the precepts of the Leader. He stoops to conquer.The more a Follower practices this, the more his advancement to the next stage of Leadership proceeds smoothly.
Leadership is the next stage, it demands more discipline and responsibility. To exercise Leadership effectively one must practice what I call 'letting go'.'Letting go' is poverty. This spirit is contrary to avarice, which basically consists of a desire for an acknowledgement of the goods done . The ideal society would be one in which Followers learn to give thanks and Leaders learn to let go(Leaders must have enough 'absorbers' to take lots of 'shits')then each party can easily move to next stage as required. Albeit, life's experience shows that the bulk of ills in our society arises from frictions between this two groups. But paradoxically, it is such friction , from the lassitude of one party, and the grasping of responsibility from the other party that facilitates advancement to the next stage.For instance , if the leader does not let go and the Follower persists in graciousness, the trial makes him advance towards being a more authentic Leader than the Leader who completely looses touch about the meaning of Leadership. Or otherwise if Followers turn ingrates and the Leader does not take things personal and 'let go', he quickly advances to the next stage which is Eldership.
Now, authentic Followers get inspiration from authentic Leaders, while authentic Leaders get inspiration from authentic Elders, that is the way it works, it is an hierachial stuff, the more one is surrounded by authentic people from the top hierarchies the easier one learns and one progresses authentically to the next stage, if one misses this authenticity, there is a cycle of ignorance, thus falsehood which only ends in nihilism persists. Authenticity of each stage demands responsibility of Love, and these are quite rare.
If the first two stages are rare, the next stage of Eldership is even more rare and vague for modern man. Through much stress and poverty and letting go, a Leader finally arrives at being an Elder. Elders take their cues and energy from the past, they arrive more at mysticism and take their cues from the 'dead'(the dead are actually those that should be called living, because they effect a greater force than we think) An Elder knows that events in the world gets directed from the other world.Authentic Elders are often silent.Elders generally employ the energy of memory because,for them,they know that memory is reality, the past is the only energy for the future. Not all Elders follow after truth and the great temptation in this stage is to apply memory towards falsehood, this demands lesser energy, whereas to think truth in order to effect positivity in life requires much discipline and energy. An authentic Elder knows that falsehood always lead to nihilism, and truth is that which only matters, a lot of Elders miss out -despite all- at this point. The temptation to relax the head and compromise on the demands of memories weighs just too much and they give up. An Elder acts little, speaks little but know much because he derives his wisdom from memory, for authentic elder, memory is not memory, but in fact, reality. He is mute and is inactive , because he sees that much of life's results does not come from human efforts but from memory, from the life beyond, the land of the spirit. What abundant wisdom one can gain from Elders, but if authentic Followers and Leaders are rare , far far rarer are authentic Elders, they struggle, a lot of them give up on truth. Few people are able to be persistently thankful, humble and obedient to become Leaders, and fewer people are able to 'let go' to become Elders, and far fewer Elders can face the stress of holding unto the force of truth through memory without compromising, and if this could be done, that is when one arrives at the last stage which is called Ancestors.
When Elders become committed to memory, they become their thoughts and this becomes what I call legacy. Very very few Elders attain Ancestors alive, but they already know better, that being alive or dead is very irrelevant, authentic Elders even crave for death to be able to work more effectively.They see that the so called dead are truly those alive. It's something else whether they are committed to truth or not. A society is a reflection of the kind of legacy left by its Ancestors. Ancestors are legacy, and it is this Legacy that Elders spend their entire lives remembering, because that is the protagonism of the world , the case of being an Ancestor is that of a life which becomes perpetually eventful proportional to the rate at which it is able to sustain truth, what a wasted life it is, that which is not lived for the truth, yet authentic Ancestors are rare my friend.Ancestors had often entered the easier part to narcissism which only ends in nihilism, thus posterity suffer, and Ancestors suffer so much because of this because they bear no fruit, what is the point of being an Ancestor if one does not leave a good legacy,if one does nothing for posterity, if one does not become fruitful. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and looses the meaning of himself!
When people are disciplined enough to move from authentic Follower-ship, to authentic Leadership, to authentic Elder-ship to authentic Ancestor-ship.Their is visible progress in the society. It takes discipline, but a discipline helped only by faith. A single authentic person can effect goodness which overcomes and covers the evils of a many. Charity covers a multitude of sins!One with God is a majority. And I want to say, let us remember the dead, the grave sin of this age is the neglect of our dead.We neglect the dead because Elders -good or bad-are lacking. Mediocrity looms. Let us be committed to our ancestors and use their goodness, it helps them and us.
So what shall we do then? it is a long hazardous road, and those truly wise know that the only path worth coveting is the Follower-ship path,authentic Follower ship is that which I can advice that we hustle for, the path of gratitude, obedience and humility, the Lord will bring us to the other stages if we only work at Follower ship.
Leadership is the next stage, it demands more discipline and responsibility. To exercise Leadership effectively one must practice what I call 'letting go'.'Letting go' is poverty. This spirit is contrary to avarice, which basically consists of a desire for an acknowledgement of the goods done . The ideal society would be one in which Followers learn to give thanks and Leaders learn to let go(Leaders must have enough 'absorbers' to take lots of 'shits')then each party can easily move to next stage as required. Albeit, life's experience shows that the bulk of ills in our society arises from frictions between this two groups. But paradoxically, it is such friction , from the lassitude of one party, and the grasping of responsibility from the other party that facilitates advancement to the next stage.For instance , if the leader does not let go and the Follower persists in graciousness, the trial makes him advance towards being a more authentic Leader than the Leader who completely looses touch about the meaning of Leadership. Or otherwise if Followers turn ingrates and the Leader does not take things personal and 'let go', he quickly advances to the next stage which is Eldership.
Now, authentic Followers get inspiration from authentic Leaders, while authentic Leaders get inspiration from authentic Elders, that is the way it works, it is an hierachial stuff, the more one is surrounded by authentic people from the top hierarchies the easier one learns and one progresses authentically to the next stage, if one misses this authenticity, there is a cycle of ignorance, thus falsehood which only ends in nihilism persists. Authenticity of each stage demands responsibility of Love, and these are quite rare.
If the first two stages are rare, the next stage of Eldership is even more rare and vague for modern man. Through much stress and poverty and letting go, a Leader finally arrives at being an Elder. Elders take their cues and energy from the past, they arrive more at mysticism and take their cues from the 'dead'(the dead are actually those that should be called living, because they effect a greater force than we think) An Elder knows that events in the world gets directed from the other world.Authentic Elders are often silent.Elders generally employ the energy of memory because,for them,they know that memory is reality, the past is the only energy for the future. Not all Elders follow after truth and the great temptation in this stage is to apply memory towards falsehood, this demands lesser energy, whereas to think truth in order to effect positivity in life requires much discipline and energy. An authentic Elder knows that falsehood always lead to nihilism, and truth is that which only matters, a lot of Elders miss out -despite all- at this point. The temptation to relax the head and compromise on the demands of memories weighs just too much and they give up. An Elder acts little, speaks little but know much because he derives his wisdom from memory, for authentic elder, memory is not memory, but in fact, reality. He is mute and is inactive , because he sees that much of life's results does not come from human efforts but from memory, from the life beyond, the land of the spirit. What abundant wisdom one can gain from Elders, but if authentic Followers and Leaders are rare , far far rarer are authentic Elders, they struggle, a lot of them give up on truth. Few people are able to be persistently thankful, humble and obedient to become Leaders, and fewer people are able to 'let go' to become Elders, and far fewer Elders can face the stress of holding unto the force of truth through memory without compromising, and if this could be done, that is when one arrives at the last stage which is called Ancestors.
When Elders become committed to memory, they become their thoughts and this becomes what I call legacy. Very very few Elders attain Ancestors alive, but they already know better, that being alive or dead is very irrelevant, authentic Elders even crave for death to be able to work more effectively.They see that the so called dead are truly those alive. It's something else whether they are committed to truth or not. A society is a reflection of the kind of legacy left by its Ancestors. Ancestors are legacy, and it is this Legacy that Elders spend their entire lives remembering, because that is the protagonism of the world , the case of being an Ancestor is that of a life which becomes perpetually eventful proportional to the rate at which it is able to sustain truth, what a wasted life it is, that which is not lived for the truth, yet authentic Ancestors are rare my friend.Ancestors had often entered the easier part to narcissism which only ends in nihilism, thus posterity suffer, and Ancestors suffer so much because of this because they bear no fruit, what is the point of being an Ancestor if one does not leave a good legacy,if one does nothing for posterity, if one does not become fruitful. What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and looses the meaning of himself!
When people are disciplined enough to move from authentic Follower-ship, to authentic Leadership, to authentic Elder-ship to authentic Ancestor-ship.Their is visible progress in the society. It takes discipline, but a discipline helped only by faith. A single authentic person can effect goodness which overcomes and covers the evils of a many. Charity covers a multitude of sins!One with God is a majority. And I want to say, let us remember the dead, the grave sin of this age is the neglect of our dead.We neglect the dead because Elders -good or bad-are lacking. Mediocrity looms. Let us be committed to our ancestors and use their goodness, it helps them and us.
So what shall we do then? it is a long hazardous road, and those truly wise know that the only path worth coveting is the Follower-ship path,authentic Follower ship is that which I can advice that we hustle for, the path of gratitude, obedience and humility, the Lord will bring us to the other stages if we only work at Follower ship.
Saturday, 7 August 2010
Impact Your World!
Have you got an idea that you feel could greatly impact your society? This is not enough. Learn, with it, the art of making money, the science of human networking and the believe in a higher power. You would then have built sufficient capacity to greatly impact your world!
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Freedom!
When we love, we are passionate about issues of justice, with justice comes peace, and peace brings freedom. The ultimate is this liberation called freedom! The starting point is love, this energy of Eros, filial and agape!
Faith!
Faith transcends awareness. It is also, and more about the trust and abandonment to God,of our prosperity and the positivity of things as it relates to us, even when we don't understand, even when we don't see. This sort of faith is what wins the Lord over and that which allows Him to effect much on souls. This is the true poverty; this is why the protagonist of history is the beggar! Blessed is he who has not seen but yet believes!
Monday, 12 July 2010
Life as a triduum
His hour is what matters, if we can muster all our energies towards the hour of the great work, especially the contumasum est, when he cried: 'it is finished!' the hour -as it is called- of great mercy.This is the ultimate moment when He brought everything back to perfection (and when I am lifted up on high, I'll draw everything to Myself) I call it 'parii'se'.
He repaired all the faults of Adam. If we can find a way to bring this hour into the present and halt it, so that time becomes a manifestation only of this great moment, then there shall be heaven on earth. The great energy we would employ is memory. Memory is in fact reality, especially in the Eucharist, which is in fact a thanksgiving( that through which only we can please God), and thanksgiving is a gift of self(finding a perfect fulfilment on the cross who does that in our place) 'How can I repay the Lord...I will raise the cup of salvation...-and again-'you do not ask for sacrifice or gift... instead here I am...' .That is why Christ said' do this in memory of me', that command is solely and exclusively for our own good.
Because God's ways are infinite, it doesn't change, the work of creation still finished on the 6th day, and on the 7th day He actually rested, He rested , on that Saturday, in the grave. and again, the point is that, for the new era of the new covenant, which is infinite, the priority of the days has changed, until the final retreat of eternity, His work produces a new creation, and He keeps on working, Emmanuel, always with us, taking the responsibility. The command of Christ divinises work, 'Go ye...'. The holy day is this new day, when everything is made new, God is love,love is work, God is work!The first day, which is the new holy day, when God created heaven and earth, thus becomes blessed, it is not Saturday when things becomes laggard, it is a perpetual newness , creativity and innovation. 'send Forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created...' this is it!If we succumb to Saturday, we die,Sunday is the true day of resurrection and newness!
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
For the love of Eros!
The world should be loved. It is one whole bunch of eros. Beautiful, sexy,etheral. We are meant to be attracted by this loveliness of the world. That is the starting point to freedom. Yet, it is a great deception, the world, as we see it, is false, zero,literarily nothing, what paradox! The world is the great deception. Eros is never bad, it should be desired but it is as risky as death! Remember it is love, eros is love! This is our mistake: rather than starting from God so as to bring eros to unity we start from ourselves who are also principaly eros! eros + eros = 0 ( nihilism), God(agape) + eros = 1 ( unity). Because we dare approach eros through our efforts, we get severed and it turns us narcists, and the great lie is perpetrated, and we blame eros for everything. If eros is bad, why would God come down to be eros(man)? He , being eros, as a consequence has attracted everything eros and makes them divine, thus food , meat , wine, sex, money, pleasures are divine attributes. but first by an absolute submission of eros to agape can this pleasures be genuinely realised , and we experience the great transformation of eros through filial into agape!
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