May 23: 22 Priests go on Hunger Strike

UCAN: Priests go on hunger strike to protest naval base plan
5/23/2007
UCANews (www.ucanews.com)
SEOUL, South Korea (UCAN) – After the governor of Jeju agreed to accept a controversial naval base on the island province, local priests went on a hunger strike and their bishop wrote an open letter to South Korea's president urging a referendum on the plan.

On May 21, about 40 priests of Cheju Diocese organized a Mass for peace on the island off the Korean peninsula's southern coast. Afterward, 18 of them joined four colleagues on the third day of a hunger strike against the base. Cheju is the former spelling of Jeju. [click link above for full article.]

THE "NARROW GATE" = "SEEING" THE "PEARL" / "TREASURE"

This is a really important post: THE "NARROW GATE" = "PAYING THE PRICE!!!!!!!!!" The point of this just mentioned post is that more than we recognize, we know:

1. What we want - Heaven
2. What to do - Good
3. The Pearl / Treasure - totally dedicating ourselves the least of these

The point of the just mentioned post is that we know what we want, but we will not face the "Price!"

But, why will we not face the price?

1. We are DISTRACTED, DISASSOCIATED, SEPARATED from "the least of these our family," PHYSICALLY, VISUALLY,. SPATIALLY, PSYCHOLOGICALLY, EXPERIENTIALLY, FINANCIALLY....
2. "If you know, and you do not do, you do not know"
3. We are drowning in mis-direction; away from the Kingdom, toward the Hell of non-family, non-brotherly
4. We are drowning in a culture, we are drowning in role models that prize distance from "the lest of these my family."
5. We are devoid of an environment rich in Serving, from the Soul, in Solidarity

THE "NARROW GATE" = "PAYING THE PRICE!!!!!!!!!"

MatthewChapter 7
[FINDING / KNOWING THE PEARL - THE TREAURE - THE EASY PART!] 12 6 "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets. " And, Mark Chapter 12 30 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

[DECIDING TO PAY THE PRICE - THE NARROW GATE - THE HARD PART!] 13 7 8 "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. 14 How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few. "

Oh my goodness. What am imbicile I am. Finding and Living "Life" all comes down to this - PAYING THE PRICE!. I spend most of my time in the mistaken confusion that it comes down to:
* Knowing WHERE the path is...
* What the path LOOKS LIKE...
* How to walk the path...
* Etc...
* Etc...

Well, all of those things matter. But the fundamental problem is, WE DO NOT THINK THAT WE WANT TO "PAY THE PRICE!" We know WHAT to do. We don't have the WISDOM, COURAGE, CONVICTION, KNOWLEGED, TRUTH, LIFE, LOVE... to PAY THE PRICE.

MatthewChapter 13 44 23 "The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field, 24 which a person finds and hides again, and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant searching for fine pearls. 46 When he finds a pearl of great price, he goes and sells all that he has and buys it." I have always thought that the focus of this was FINDING the Pearl or the Treasure. It is helpful for me to realize that it is about the wisdom, courage, FAITH... to "PAY THE PRICE."

IF WE HUMANS ARE ONE BODY, WHAT DOES OUR FATHER SEE?

IF YOU WERE ONE "CELL," WHERE WOULD YOU FOCUS YOUR BODY?

IF YOU WERE ONE "CELL," WHERE WOULD YOU FOCUS YOUR BODY?

This idea of "one body" is all around us from the great souls:

• The body of Christ.
• "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools," Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "All men are brothers," Gandhi.
• "In reality, of course, we are all cells in the body of humanity," Peace Pilgrim
• Etc.

Well, let's not blow them off for a second. Time out.

So if we in the whole world are all one body, and you were one "cell," where would you want the body's attention?

1. Your "family? Probably not. You are a high achiever, wealthy beyond all world standards.
2. Your "neighborhood?" Probably not. Same as above.
3. Darfur? Congo? Palestine? Guatamala? Etc? GOOD CHANCE! Huge death rates. Terrible suffering.
4. The U.S.? GOOD CHANCE! CANCER, MESTASTASIZING AROUND THE WORLD, SPREADING ITSELF - SPREADING FREE MARKET, CONSUMER, CAPITALISM.

DARFURIES & JESUS WONDER: "ARE YOU OUR FAMILY?"

Think of this, DARFURIES & JESUS WONDER: "ARE YOU OUR FAMILY?"

Think of this, not for the "guilt" value [horrible waste - guilt] but for the potential insight and "wake up" value!

Jesus must be wondering, "who is my family?" He said, "As you do unto the least of these MY FAMILY."

WHO IS TAKING CARE OF "JESUS" DARFUR FAMILY? No one? The Jesus TOO has no family?

Jesus follower? WOULD BE LEADER.

Properly understood, the "OUR FATHER..." is a passionate exhortation for us to Lead our brothers and sisters to Heaven:

Lead us all not into temptation

Deliver us all from evil!!!!!

Who is to do the "Leading?" Who is to do the "Deliver"ing? YOU AND ME.

Leading, successfully or not, is what we were created for - it is Heaven.

Leading, WHEN SUCCESSFUL, is the only thing that will "DELIVER US ALL FROM EVIL!"

START: "RECENTLY SELF PITTY, EGO, SELFISHNESS FILLED ME"

After weeks of Spiritual success and bliss, despite an arduous campaign in front of the Sudan Embassy, I plummetted off of the path: "PAY ATTENTION" LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT. Guidance for my young friends, of every age.

Within several days I got approximately back, but it was another week before I was fully back on firm footing, and back in Heaven. In the intervening days, the symptoms and penalty for being off of the path included the Fruits that filled/sickened me included:

SELF PITTY: Why didn't I have more support from people!
EGO: Oh, I was so angry at folks for not joining the campaign, and not being smart enough to follow me!
SELFISHNESS

SELF PITTY, EGO, SELFISHNESS are ONLY FOUND OFF OF THE PATH. Watch for and respond to these warning signs. This entire site is designed to help us back to the Path, but this post in particular can help: TOXIC WASTE TO THE SPIRIT: Selfishness? -or- NOT-BROTHERLY!!!

"CHRISTIAN" MARRIAGE? TOTAL SERVICE.

Oh, I wish as a young person I had seen this. Maybe I could have established a marriage with a similarly enlightened person.

If you are open to considering the Truth of this post title, "CHRISTIAN" MARRIAGE? TOTAL SERVICE, then ponder this and you will see it:

Jesus called us each individually to TOTAL SERVICE to "the least of these my family." 'Pick up your cross and follow me' he told us. Well, if individually this is what we are to do, then except for violating this Solution to Life, in Marriage this is what we must do as TWO instead of ONE.

There is no other "Christian" Marriage. THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE.

Jesus called us to "Love," NOT "Justice." Careless mistake?

JESUS; WE DO EVERYTHING BUT WHAT HE SAID.

Why did Jesus NOT call us to "Justice?!!?" Because our Father's Kingdom, Heaven is in and through the Heart. Justice calls us to our Head, AWAY from our Father's House.

NOT "MY FAMILY" IS THE ROOT OF ALL SIN; ALL SELFISHNESS THE FRUIT

TOXIC WASTE TO THE SPIRIT: Selfishness? -or- NOT-BROTHERLY!!!

THE WORDS THAT COULD SAVE THE WORLD,

JESUS DISCOVERED LIFE. ADAM SMITH - CANCER.

Jesus, according to Tolstoy and your own heart, gave us the Solution to Life: "Do unto others ALL that you would have them do unto you."

Adam Smith gave us Cancer / Death: Do unto others, within Man's law, all that you can BEFORE they can do unto you.

Smith said, it is impossible to effectively look after your brother. Take care of yourself and let the Hand of God worry about the rest. Hmm. Adam Smith overrode Jesus, Son of God. Smith had no malice or mal intent. CANCER WOULD SEEM LIKE A BRILLIANT INVENTION. SERIOUSLY! TRULY!

DIVORCE / NEGLECT / NON-FAMILY: OUR UN-NAMED RELIGION

See TOXIC WASTE TO THE SPIRIT: Selfishness? -or- NOT-BROTHERLY!!! , THE WORDS THAT COULD SAVE THE WORLD, and CANCER WOULD SEEM LIKE A BRILLIANT INVENTION. SERIOUSLY! TRULY!

Our western culture is based on our ability to divorce ourselves from concern for others under the guise of rugged independence, free market capitalism, and "family" values.

WE SHOULD EXPECT TO SEE, as an early and immediate indicator of the "body's" death from this cancer, a skyrocketing "Marriage Divorce" rate. Divorce from others is what we train our children in from the earliest age.

CANCER WOULD SEEM LIKE A BRILLIANT INVENTION. SERIOUSLY! TRULY!

It would seem like the ultimate free lunch. Listen cells, the other cells can take care of themselves. It will build character; survival of the fittest.

Quit thinking about them, and look out for yourself, and for "your family."

My gosh, without the "burden" [Life, Love, Truth - the Almighty] of thinking about others, wow, just think of the growth, the wealth of resources available to you! Why, you could do as well for yourself as you were willing to sacrifice and work for!

But then the body would die.

Thank you Adam Smith. Thank you wester, free market, consumer capitalism. The body, the masses, are rapidly dying. And the Almighty is not to be found among the Cancer Cells. They are already all but Dead.

TOXIC WASTE TO THE SPIRIT: Selfishness? -or- NOT-BROTHERLY!!!

TOXIC WASTE OF THE SPIRIT: Selfishness? -or- NOT-BROTHERLY-TO-THE-LEAST-OF-THESE?

For much of the last six weeks or so I've felt much more enlightened with the new insight that all Error, all Sin is Selfishness. Much has been written of this; THE WORDS THAT COULD SAVE THE WORLD, and see partial list below.

But now I think that Selfishness is the fruit of something deeper: the root of all evil - detachment / separation / distance / "divorce" from anyone; that is to say, the root of all evil is ANY VACUUM IN YOUR HEART, any space that is non-family, non-brotherhood-t0-ALL-of-the-least-of-these-MY-FAMILY. Is not this insight in line with Timothy 6:10 (King James Version): "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith [universal brotherliness], and pierced themselves through with many sorrows?" Yes. The love of money [Stuff, Superiority, Systems/Institutions] is the displacement of the LOVE OF "THE LEAST OF THESE MY FAMILY."

EVIL IS ANY MOMENTS OF ABSENCE OF LOVE OF EVERYONE - UNIVERSAL BROTHERLINESS / OTHERISHNESS / "FAMILY." SELFISHNESS IS THE RESULT / FRUIT. "GOOD" IS THE PREDOMINATION OF UNIVERSAL BROTHERLINESS... IN THE HEART.

The importance of this distinction? A FOCUS ON SELFISHNESS WILL ALLOW THE ROOT TO TAKE HOLD - NATURE ABHORS A VACUUM - A HEART JUST PARTLY FILLED WITH BROTHERLINESS WILL BECOME FILLED BY SELFISHNESS.

THE KINGDOM DEPENDS ON OUR VIGILANCE IN KEEPING CONNECTED TO ALL OTHERS / keeping from being diverted ["diversion" being worshiped in our western free market capitalist society.]

This puts Jesus focus on the "least of these my family" in new perspective for me.

This puts Gandhi's statement in a new perspective for me: "I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

Caution! Mother Teresa's kind of LOVE - "Love [that] cannot remain inactive in the face of suffering." [paraphrase]

THE BOTTOM LINE!!! THE MOST TOXIC WASTE TO THE SPIRIT, THE GREATEST DANGER IS BEING NOT-ENTIRELY-BROTHERLY-TO-ALL-THE-LEAST-OF-THESE.

WHAT TO DO!?!?!?

1. PRAY. "OUR FATHER..." PRAY. SELF-MONITOR. BE ACCUTELY AWARE OF WHAT IS ON YOUR HEART, AND IF IT IS NOT THE-LEAST-OF-THESE-MY-FAMILY, PRAY DELIBERATELY AND PRACTICALLY TO BRING THE-LEAST-OF-THESE-YOUR-FAMILY TO FILL, FILL, FILL YOUR HEART.
2. BE VIGILANT, WATCHFUL FOR THE AVALANCHE OF "DIVERSIONS" AND DISTRACTIONS THAT OUR CULTURE THROWS AT YOU EVERY MINUTE.
3. REMEMBER, YOU CANNOT ESCAPE LEADING THOSE DEAREST TO YOU WHERE YOU GO. LIFE OR PULSE? HEAVEN OR HELL? THE "GREAT" OR THE "GOOD?"

WHERE IS THE SELFISHNESS / SIN IN MY LIFE?
!!!!!!!!!! DEFINITION: "SAVED" !!!!!!!!!!
Exploitative U.S. "Family Values" will be its demise...
The Anti-Christ: American Capitalism and its Export
DEFINITION OF VIOLENCE - "Enemy," Non-Brotherly, Selfish, Not-as-you-would-have-them-do behavior
Take away Selfishness and Western Culture Vanishes
WE ARE IMMORTAL. THE ONLY DEATH IS SELFISHNESS
And many more posts. Search the blog with the tool a the top left of the site.

TOXIC WASTE OF THE SPIRIT: Selfishness? -or- NOT-BROTHERLY!!!

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TOXIC WASTE TO THE SPIRIT: Selfishness? -or- NOT-BROTHERLY!!!

HEART: DOES NOT KNOW ITS OWN PAIN, SACRIFICE

This is a really important factor in our "wiring" to be aware of:

WHEN YOUR HEART IS IN CHARGE THE FEEDBACK LOOP OF YOUR FLESH IS EXTREMELY ATTENUATED. (You are racing to the hospital with your child in your arms. How much are you "feeling" the pain in your body?")

This is why those who follow Jesus, serve the Almighty "LOOK LIKE" they are in misery, but actually "THEIR JOY IS COMPLETE."

No?

"Heart in the right place"

A long and wonderful conversation with my friend caused us to arrive at the thought that it is of monumental importance to have one's "heart in the right place." This is of monumental importance. THIS MAY BE THE ENTIRETY OF WHAT IS IMPORTANT.

Why do I feel however that this concept is incomplete? IT IS A MATTER OF DEGREE, I see now!!!

But as Dr. King showed us, HOW MUCH SPIRIT MATTERS!!!! (See Dr. King's idea: JESUS TAUGHT US: SPIRIT IS EVERYTHING.)

Let's say your mistaken idea was to value material riches (you don't do you?). If you valued this, and pursued it a little you might say your "heart is in the right place." But it does not stop there. HOW MUCH IS YOUR "HEART IN THE RIGHT PLACE!" HOW GREEDY ARE YOU!!!

It is really important to:

1. Have your "heart in the right place."
2. Be extremely greedy!

Why?

1. Why Jesus came: Abundant Life; Complete Joy. PERIOD.
2. We build the Kingdom, or it does not get built. Most of your family is in torment. "HURRY," the still, small voice within says.

Why Jesus came: Abundant Life; Complete Joy. PERIOD.

Hmmm. How much longer will we continue to doubt what He told us - substituting instead our own thoughts or the thoughts of preachers, etc?

Was Jesus the most perfect of men, a genius by whatever name... or was he an imbecile in whose mouth we need to put words?

Jn 15:9-11 “I have told you this so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be complete.”

John Chapter 10 I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

Guilt: Almost always a Sin / Error

Hmm. Picture it: you are up in the waiting room of the Pearly Gates. Jesus comes in to interview you. You tell him all that you did to try to follow him. One of the ones you speak of is guilt. "Wow, Jesus, I spent so much time in guilt." You are hopeful He is pleased at this.

"Did I suggest for you to be guilty? NO. I told you many things, but I did not tell you that. Why did you ignore what I told you:

• As you do unto the least of these my family...
• There is not greater love than to...
• Love God (the Almighty - Truth, Love, Life) with your whole...
• Love your brother...
• Love your enemies...
• Love your neighbor...

Do we think Jesus was careless in what He said?

JESUS; WE DO EVERYTHING BUT WHAT HE SAID

I know, DUH!

But wait a second. I've "known" this for all of my life. But reflect on this Eastern saying:

IF YOU KNOW, BUT YOU DO NOT DO, YOU DO NOT KNOW.

Only now am I starting to do. I DID NOT KNOW.

START, YOU HAVE SO MANY ABSOLUTES!!!!

An elephant absolutely has a rope-like tail!
An elephant absolutely has sheet-like ears!
An elepahnt absolutely has tree-trunk-like legs!
Etc.
Etc.

If you get the Almighty / God (Life, Love, Truth) you get a whole bunch of things together - aways. It is important to understand each element. But you cannot get just the element.

Maslow wrote of this phenomena, admitting that he couldn't further explain it. In his study of self-actualizing humans he found that in highly self-actualized people, one in millions, if you get one of the following, you get them all in abundance:

Truth, goodness, beauty, wholeness dichotomy-transcendence, aliveness, uniqueness, perfection, completion, justice, simplicity, richness, effortlessness, playfulness, self-sufficiency - THE ALMIGHTY / UNITY / SINGULARITY... LIFE - The "Bread" of Life.

The movie "Rudy." SPIRIT IS THE ONLY SUCCESS.

More and more I glimpse what never before I could - Jesus teaching that what man (not the Almighty) makes is so futile / trivial / wasteful / meaningless. Napoleon: "Do you know, Fontanes, what astonishes me most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit."

So, what role is left for us? To be the dwelling place of the Almighty - Truth, Life, Love. This was RUDY. And look at how he was an instrument to build the Kindom.

King, Jesus, Teresa, Gandhi... all were ademant that EVERYONE can be great. "Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve," ML King.

There is no other service than than done by Rudy. "They Kingdom comes as thy will is done."

God calls us to be faithful, not successful.

BE FAMILY / BROTHER / SISTER FOR THE JOY OF IT

For the joy of it - no other reason.

Jesus came "to give... life more abundantly," and "to make joy... complete.

Jesus gave us the SOLUTION TO LIFE:

• Do unto others all that you would have them do unto you.
• Love your brother as yourself.
• The Good Samaritan
• As you do unto the least of these MY FAMILY you do unto me.
• A man can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.

99% OF MY LIFE HAS BEEN ERROR. YAHOO!

99% of my life has been organized around the society of western free market capitalism - SELFISHNESS. This was the best I knew.

Yahoo?!?!?!?
1. Shall I feel guilty for doing the best I knew?
2. Can feeling guilty or bad help me reclaim those decades?
3. Now that I recognize the error / the missing Joy, YAHOO I CAN AVOID THOSE ERRORS BETTER!

How much cancer is good for your body?

How much toxic waste for your mind / Soul per day?

How much toxic waste for your mind / Soul per day?

Every waking moment that is not attached / connected to / organized around / directed toward "the least of these my family" is Toxic Waste for the Soul / Selfishness / Sin.

How much toxic waste for your soul each day?

Start, what is all this Revelation, etc crap?

Revelation, Divine Inspiration, Epiphany, Vision.... This "religious" language, believed classically to be from some external being, remains the best language available to identify certain phenomenon. It comes from beyond our control and we in that important sense can take no credit for it.

Pitirim Sorokin's notion of Supra Intelligence best captures what I experience and believe on the subject. Essentially Sorokin views that the terms I not above come from that portion of our brain that by far is the most powerful, but that is not directly accessible to us through conscious manipulation.

Maybe what Sorokin and E.O. Wilson in his book "Consillience" and I sense is some sort of portal to an external "God." I don't know. I don't care. It is AWESOME. IT IS ALMIGHTY.

CANCER: ADAM SMITH'S DISCOVERY - CAPITALISM

Neither cruel of cynical. How could he know. But he unleashed the opposite of life - he released Cancer. It grows phenomenally! It works for the cancer cells! But, it eventually kills the body.

Jesus gave us the solution to Life: "Do unto others ALL that you would have them do unto you."

Smith gave us Cancer: Do unto others before they can do unto you. Forget the Golden Rule. Leave that to God. Hmmmmm; God left that to us.

Other posts here on the Revealed metaphor of CANCER:
Exploitative U.S. "Family Values" will be its demise...
CANCER IS ONE OF THE TWO POSSIBLE STATES OF ORGANIC STUFF
The most feared killer - cancer. Neglect by another name.

FROM A CANCER'S PERSPECTIVE, WHAT DOES HEALTH LOOK LIKE?

Please think this through. It is very interesting and important.

Cancer would "cure" the body of:

• Dying
• Seeing Cancer as other than the ideal to be supported
• Any attitudes other than delighted service and support
• Any and all unwillingness to be fully exploited
• Etc.
• Etc.