As Is The Feeling,
So Is The Result.
The Party, who abused the nation, has collapsed into its own muck. Time to rebuild the nation, who has been splashed with muck raised by The Party’s collapse into it.
So much anger, such light-less eyes.
Through S&S’s TDS, one notes there
some richly-deserved movement.
The muck is The Party, not the nation. Clean off the muck and make the nation strong to resist being re-covered by a new Party which must itself go to muck and sully the nation.
But [The Party] isn’t limited to communist countries, really. Around the world in the postwar era, power was taken up by unelected professional and managerial elites. To understand what’s going on with President Donald Trump and his opposition, and in other countries as diverse as France, Hungary, Italy and Brazil, it’s important to realize that the post-World War II institutional arrangements of the Western democracies are being renegotiated, and that those democracies’ professional and managerial elites don’t like that very much, because they have done very well under those arrangements. And, like all elites who are doing very well, they don’t want that to change.
Glenn Reynolds
VDH: the deep state makes argument from authority, a classic fallacy of logic: ipsi dixit, because I say so! At a time when post-WWII institutional arrangements are being renegotiated (Reynolds), beneficiaries of those arrangements assert that their positions of authority inside said institutions justify argument for perpetuity of those institutions. VDH the classicist points out that ineluctable Nemesis awaits its pleasure to strike that incomprehensible Hubris.
Institutions are made for man, not man for institutions. If they are not serving society and the nation, for whatever reason, institutions are scrapped and new ones made to get that job done.
Euro-American post-WWII institutional arrangements are not serving society and the nations. Ergo, they are being scrapped while new and different ones are being created. Arguments from their current prestige or authority by institutional operators against this natural scrapping and creating process are generically invalid and bootless. And, unseen by them, they await the arrival of Nemesis.
Look, therefore, to the big things and overlook the little things. Crime and drugs are little things. Literacy and health are little things. Quiet and cleanliness in the home and respect for parents and elders are big things. Constant remembrance of God and doing one’s duty are big things. Think, plan, and do the big things. The little things will take care of themselves.
Self-respect and reverence for others are big things. Both emerge in the same experience: of the Omnipresence of God and the Oneness of Humanity. You are in all and all is in you. Christ is in all and all is in Christ. You are Christ. Christ is you. And so are he, and he, and she, and she, and they. Creatures are clothes God wears.
Merely thinking or reciting this truth is not the objective. Doing those things will not benefit you. Definite experience of that reality is the objective. It will benefit you. Direct experience of the non-duality of reality is, only is, and is only beneficial to you.
No one can give up their essential holiness in divinity, and no one can alter that essence of theirs. Each one has to answer the call to be that, to be their true self, the divine one, some time or other. Reality is an invitation who cannot be refused. Live in the bliss experience of reality’s divinity confers.
Being saturated in awareness of one’s divinity, soaking in the permanent bliss of that experience, is the biggest thing of all. From that experience flow all good things, big and little, and also all needful accouterments of life.
If you want more food,
White Cloud
move faster Godward.
It is said one cannot move Godward until one has eaten. This is not true. True is that one cannot eat until one is moving Godward. The non-corporeal do not eat. The corporeal eat because they are moving Godward — by virtue of their in-corporation.
Life is a skein of duties that must be well performed. Best effort cannot be deemed a duty well performed. Best effort may be, and usually is, laudable. However, performance of duty that succeeds, that fulfills a duty’s purpose, is the only performance outcome that can be deemed a duty well performed. Well done and well performed mean successful.
There is no substitute for success.
The biggest, most important, most consequential duties are the ones The Party most trivializes. The most important duty of anyone belonging to humankind is the duty to re-cognize and re-connect, in a flash of abyssal experience, God in all as all. The next most important duty — and of each and all humanity — is to honor the mother, the father, and the teacher. After that, help and protection for the spouse and the children, self-less service in the public interest, and preservation of the sacred scripture are the most important duties incumbent upon each one of us.
Duties incumbent upon persons bearing responsibilities of public office, in the public trust, are:
provide for the common defense,
communications, sanitation, and
recreation. Equally for all.
These are the big things. Do them well — successfully — and all the little things come running to one to help one do even better and more with the big things. This is just the way life happens when the big things are on their way to success as one’s topmost priority.
So, do not fret about the price of a bushel of corn in Chicago or a gold bar in Zurich. Those are very little things, of which always present are enough when the big things are underway of achievement.
Today, we hear a great deal about ‘duty’ and the responsibility to perform the duties concerning each group. This is all to the good. But, the connotation of the words is not properly understood. The students think that their ‘duty’ is only to be punctual when one attends college or school, and to be attentive during the lectures and other academic exercises. The teachers too consider their duty done, when they attend during prescribed hours and perform the assignments allotted to them. This misconception has to be given up. Education has to be welcomed as a Sadhana for the establishment of peace in the individual heart as well as in society. Education is a spiritual endeavour, over which Goddess Saraswati presides. Saraswati is the Shakti of Brahma, the First Member of the Trinity, and She is the source and sustenance of all creative activity. Gayatri, the vital Vedic mantra, which prays to the ‘Source of Light’, to illumine the intellect of the aspirant is also a facet of that Shakti. Gayatri mantra is a universal eternal call from the heart of man to the Embodiment of Love and Light. It is the very basis of the educational effort in all lands and at all times.
The Ten Commandments, lo and behold, list each one’s duties pretty much in priority order, first to last. Commands should be accepted as empowerments, not impositions. Commands cannot compel. God elicits inherent but latent powers of accomplishment. God does not impose burdens. Laws articulate ideal behaviors. Like traffic signs, laws cannot compel behavior. This is why obedience to laws cannot get you into heaven, meaning, earn God’s approbation.
Divinize human nature.
Sathya Sai Baba
Humanity is a generator. For this reason, the Book of Genesis (Generations) fronts The Bible. Generation is a dialectic occurring right at the center of life and history, which is to say, directly inside the Heart of God.
The Heart of God — that is a metaphor — is like a womb that accepts the staff of God and from conjunction of its ground (egg) and in-coming seed (sperm) gestates existence (latency) then makes it happen (patentcy). What emerges from the womb, so to speak, is of the womb and the staff the womb received as given, which is to say, imago dei. All creation is that.
Self-generation / self-regeneration is the primal and primary functionality of creation and her creatures. God is the only male principle.
If you look for God, you find creation.
If you look for creation, you find God.
If you look for both, you find one.
If you look for neither, you find both.
God makes you an invitation you can’t refuse.
For this reason, West Point Cadet Thomas Jonathan Jackson famously wrote in his diary: Duty is ours, consequences are God’s.
Traditional Christian Wedding Ceremony
When in public and I pass by a woman with child, especially more than one, and the context appeals to me as relaxed and natural, I thank her and her husband profusely, and the more children she has with her, the more profusely I thank them by way of her. I have been doing this for years now. I have never been rebuffed in that situation. When my wife and I were rearing ours, we enjoyed being in public with her breasts inside a sheer bra and/or blouse. It was a sermon on what life is: generation, which is why The Bible fronts a book named Genesis. Imago dei. This is a big thing, so do that.
During Navaratri there is a form of worship called Anga-arpana Puja (dedicating various limbs and organs to God). In the performance of this Puja, there is a form of self-deception. When a devotee says, “Netram Samarpayami” (I offer my eyes to the Lord) and offers only a flower to the Lord, one is indulging in deception. The proper thing would be to say that one is offering a flower. Mantras like “Netram Samarpayami” are intended to indicate that one is using one’s eyes only to see God. The real significance of the Mantra is that you think of the Divine in whatever you see or do. Therefore, true Anga-arpana Puja is to declare that you offer all your limbs in the service of the Lord. This means that whatever work you do should be done as an offering to God. Navaratri festival should be used as an occasion to examine one’s own nature whether it is human, animal or demonic, and strive to transform animal nature to human, and finally divinise human nature.
- Sathya Sai Baba – Divine Discourse, October 06, 1992 / Daily Email, Sai Inspires: Subscription
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