a little James Broughton . . .

When I gave up trying to understand, said the

Camel's Eye to the Needle, than I began to

get the point.

 

You always think I'm

greener elsewhere,

said the Grass.

Well, sometimes I am.

who is Dee Hock?

Dee Hock is the author of Birth of the Chaordic Age. I found it immensely meaningful for

the needs of mankind and the needs of the earth as well as interesting stuff about himself.

He was the one who started and implemented the credit card system. Remember when

there were no credit cards?  He wrote the book after he retired to a life close to the earth.  

a little Dee Hock . . .

"Activity is not productivity"

"Beware the four beasts that devour their keeper:
ego, envy, avarice, and ambition"

"Substance is enduring, form ephemeral. preserve substance;
modify form; know the difference."

"Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is
paper and procedures. Hell is rules and regulations."

"Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick."

"You can learn much from what people say, but more is
revealed by what they do not say. Listen as carefully to the
silence as to the sound."

Mandela continued . . . .

He was a man of faith. He grew up in a small village where his father was very important, but his father's ego

became overinflated and he ended up losing everything he had and Nelson was then raised by a relative in

another town who also was a leader. 

a few answer on Mandela

Mandela was raised to be a leader who would help to resolve problems by treating people with

love and respect, even his enemies. He saw it as his responsibility to change the practices of

an enemy ( like Gandhi). He was big on forgiveness too., but that still doesn't explain, so more later.

He must have had the capacity to not-get-hooked when guards threw out their nets of hatred.

 

Ram Dass used to talk about people always throwing out their nets of who they are , who you are,

etc, etc, and would say, "if you get caught, that's your problem". Most of us get caught on rejection

instead of seeing that the one who is doing the rejection is the one with the problem. We are

loveable and when a person is rejecting, it says more about them then the one they reject.

The process also mean that when we are unloving or rejecting the trouble is in us.

just 27 years of abuse . . . .

Nelson Mandela was a lawyer who did what I would want a good lawyer to do...fight for freedom 

and equality. For this he was sent to prison where he was abused emotionally and physically for

27 years, and he did draw from his soul all the poison accumulated by that unjust punishment.

Political transformation in S. Africa was enabled by his personal capacity to purge any poison

of hatred or revenge from his soul, to rise above bitterness, and cause reconciliation between

opposing forces and achieve freedom and equality for so many.How did he do that?

 

Seamus Heaney wrote . . 

 

"Human beings suffer.

They torture one another.

They get hurt and get hard.

No poem or play or song

Can fully right a wrong

Inflicted and endured.

 

History say, Don't hope

On this side of the grave,

But then, once in a lifetime

The longed-for tidal wave

Of justice can rise up

And hope an history rhyme.

 

So hope for a great sea-change

On the far side fo revenge.

Believe that a farther shore

Is reachable from here.

Believe in miracles

And cures and healing wells.

 

If there's fire on the mountain

And lightning and storm

And a god speaks from the sky

That means someone is hearing

The outcry and the birth-cry

Of new life at its term.

 

It means once in a lifetime

That justice can rise up

And hope and history rhyme."

 

some good news and bad....

Just saw the headlines that sales of SUVs have tanked.

 

One year ago in Sept. in Hong Kong, one-half (1/2) of  its

legislative body was elected by the "non-human vote''

The government in Hong Kong allows corporations to cast

votes. They and other special interest groups place their 

own reps in the legislative body, filling half the seats, last

year.  I'm sure the corps think that is such a good idea that

we should have it here too..

what God wants . . .

Thats the title of Neale Walsch's book.He tells how to get what you want

in a slightly different way...same story. "And the fastest way to call anything forth

is to give it to another. You cannot give to another something that you do not have, yet

it is the giving of it that produces the having of it." So if you want abundance, give money

to someone who has less. If you want love , give love and it will come. If you want friendships

then be a friend to others. "This teaching can be summed up in three words, BE THE SOURCE.

That which you wish to experience, cause another to experience."

I want support. Anyone need support?

Looking Out and Looking In

LOOKING OUT

Some people invite me to live
Some invite me to die.

Some invite me to live their way
Or invite me to die.

Some invite me to live my way
But invite me to die when I do.

Some invite me to live my way
But someplace else.

A few invite me to live my way
And are joyous when I do.

LOOKING IN

I invite some people to live
And invite some people to die.

I invite some to live my way
And invite them to die when they don't.

I invite some to live their way
And invite them to die when they do.

I invite some to live their way
But someplace else.

I invite a few people to live theior way
And I am joyous when they do.

EPILOG

If I invite people to live their way
When it's harmful to them or to me,
Do I invite us to die?
And when I judge what is harmful.
I wonder what is not harmful.

yours truly