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9.09.2004
Friday, September 10, 2004
The stage on which George Bush and John Kerry play is not the stage that will matter in the coming age. The stage that will matter is inner. The movement will be one of human consciousness - human awakening - to our prejudices, to hardened herd-mentality cliche masquerading as individual thought, to our own fears and anxieties and worries, and to the great degree that they run our lives, our communities, and our countries. It will not be a political movement. Anyone watching the campaigns - the poll-driven speeches, the promise-whatever-will-get-me-elected mentality, the win-at-any-cost context, can see the utter lack of sophistication at work. When you look at the cutting edge of science and see the miraculous things being done with genetic therapies and miniaturization and inter-galactic distant object viewing, you realize how far away from the cutting edge of societal development politics is. It is not where the deep exploration is going on. The deep exploration is going on in the mind of the meditator, who works day after painstaking day to discover how to overcome her automaticity. It is going on in the writings of people like James Hillman, who are journeying into new enlightened ways of understanding the nature of war. It is going on the Buddhist temples and the Trappist monasteries. It is going on in the hearts of all those of us who are willing to live in uncertainty as we explore another way. Politics is a circus now. There is no real thinking going on there. No real inquiry. Any institution that is full of answers instead of questions cannot possibly lead us to a new world.
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Thursday, September 9, 2004
Sent in today by one of our cool visitors:
"When I was young I admired clever people; now that I am old I admire people who are kind." Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
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9.07.2004
Wednesday, September 8, 2004
I was watching Bill Maher the other night. I had to turn it off, even though his politics are closer to what mine have traditionally been than the Republicans. I just can't tolerate the animosity anymore - people yelling over other people to get their point across. People trying to prove that they are smarter than other people. The incivility of it. The hatred and the vitriol. Whoever can be the biggest smart-ass wins, as if quick wit were akin to sainthood. The Democrats are no better than the Republicans. There are no answers to be found in these fora, and it seems as if no one wants any answers. Everyone just wants to be right. It is absolutley adolescent. There is no tenderness. Tenderness is a liability. Go onto the O'Reilley Factor or Bill Maher with tenderness and you will be ripped to shreds. Yet wasn't Gandhi a tender man? Wasn't Jesus? Wasn't Mother Theresa's tenderness her strength?
How short-sighted are we, to think that this public humiliation of one another will lead the world to some kind of better place.
We are led to believe that this is where it's really happening - on these shows - that this is where the action is, and you'd better tune in if you don't want your opinion to be relegated to irrelevance. "Crossfire," "Hardball," "Hannity and Combs." This may well be where the action is. But it is certainly not where any of the the answers are.
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Tuesday, September 7, 2004
1,000 soldiers killed in Iraq in the last year and a half. Over 10,000 Americans murdered by other Americans, right here on American soil, in the last year. Who is the real enemy? Iraqi insurgents, or an insurgence of hatred in our very own souls?
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9.06.2004
Monday, September 6, 2004
Labor Day. How grateful we should be to the men and women who built and continue to build all the things we use every day - our computers, our cars, our clothes, our homes, our office buildings, our museums, our airports. These people toil long hours, often beginning early in the morning, sometimes working outdoors, often in the harsh cold of winter or the punishing heat of summer, rain or shine, grading blacktop, welding joints, pouring concrete, holding on to jack hammers, or, perhaps even more difficult, sitting at a factory bench doing the same thing over and over and over again as each product comes through the assembly line.
Thank you God for the people who make the things that allow me to think and to write and to reflect and to live the comfortable life which has been given me.
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Sunday, September 5, 2004
A day of rest. No thinking today.
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Saturday, September 4, 2004
"At the outset we need to make clear that today's main paradigm for understanding a human life, the interplay of genetics and environment, omits something essential - the particularity you feel to be you. By accepting the idea that I am the effect of a subtle buffeting between heredity and societal forces, I reduce myself to a result. The more my life is accounted for by what already occured in my chromosones, by what my parents did or didn't do, and by my early years now long past, the more my biography is the story of a victim. I am a living plot written by my genetic code, ancestral heredity, traumatic occasions, parental unconsciousness, societal accidents....More deeply, however we are victims of academic, scientistic, and even therapeutic psychology, whose paradigms do not sufficiently account for or engage with, and therefore ignore, the sense of calling, that essential mystery at the heart of each human life."
James Hillman, "The Soul's Code - In Search of Character and Calling"
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