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e possible meanings in a lay sense of the metaphor could be that we should not waste our time and energy on people who rebuff the rules of well mannered behavior and live by the rules of the worst selfishness self aggrandizement and callous disregard of others including the manipulative use of others for one s own ends of course the gospel doesn t say that we have to despise the dogs and swine those who don t recognize something holy for what it is and people who don t show discretion appreciation or discernment of the metaphor and even less that we can treat them like garbage similarly we must be patient and open minded towards other people s feelings and opinions but at the same time we must be firm on principles all emotions are acceptable not all behaviors are not everything is justifiable this means that we have the right and duty to sanction bad conduct when it occurs the above mentioned sanction makes it so that we give the right message while protecting ourselves from an over exposure to other people s bad energy so to speak this is essentially a question of both ecology of mind and justice inextricably intertwined with each other of course there are a lot of other corrective actions but most of them seem to me to be either too extreme or too watered down and far less effective than that above mentioned posted by s r piccoli a 2 06 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette philosophy religion april 3 2018 out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field i ll meet you there when the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about ideas language even the phrase each other doesn t make any sense the breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you don t go back to sleep you must ask for what you really want don t go back to sleep people are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch the door is round and open don t go back to sleep the above quoted verse is from a rumi s poem called a great wagon here in the translation by coleman barks the essential rumi published by harpercollins in 1995 jalāl ad dīn muhammad rūmī more popularly simply known as rumi was a 13th century persian sunni muslim poet jurist islamic scholar theologian and sufi mystic his poems have been the best selling poetry in north america for at least two decades the most popular of them is probably a great wagon which is somehow representative of the image of rumi in the popular imagination of western readers as a mystic beyond the realm of religious dogma actually he wasn t by any means a mainstream muslim in particular he had a deeply transformative life experience his meeting with the dervish shams e tabrizi on november 15 1244 at the age of thirty seven that transformed an accomplished teacher and jurist into an ascetic and changed his traditional muslim worldview to an ecstatically mystical one which provided the main inspiration for his poetry it is certainly not without reason that rumi remains the most popular poet in america today as jawid mojaddedi points out to many who claim to be spiritual but not religious his poems represent direct spiritual connection with a higher power there is a lot of correspondence between the teachings of rumi and the increasing spiritual but not religious trend the popularity of both are undoubtedly related yet he continues there is a huge difference between prioritizing the feeling of peace through individualistic practice and developing spirituality under the training of a master as sufism teaches and rumi was himself a sufi even though neither need be religious in the conventional sense rumi has sometimes been compared to dante with whom he was contemporary even though dante was much younger than him when rumi died in 1273 dante was just eight years old what is certain is that both rumi and dante closed the middle ages because although their works are imbued with medieval thought they introduce new concepts about life love compassion and religion it s also certain that according to both dante and rumi beauty is a fundamental element in the road to truth while love is the only way towards salvation as nour seblini puts it on mystical metamorphosis in christianity and islam dante s divine comedy and rumi s masnavi in comparative perspective a search for absolute morals expressed with intense emotions and a spiritual ardor is a value shared in rumi s masnavi and dante s divine comedy the most influential medieval works of the east and west respectively their inner selves undergo a purifying process from sins and get beautified with traits that permit their union with the divine love transforms the human heart by purifying its mirror and consequently prepares it to attract the divine its personification comes in the figure of shamsoddin of tabriz that reflects the sun of truth for rumi while for dante what is synonymous with such kind of love is the figure of beatrice both poets as it will be demonstrated in more details in this work present love as the divine essence making the beloved a fundamental element in human s search for the eternal in this way love becomes the animating spirit of mysticism which in turn lies at the very heart of dante s and rumi s work in the new life dante s declaration that ladies understand love s every way signals that love is the soul of knowledge dante the poet is seeking wholeness through love a thorough examination of his mystical journey shows that since the beginning the quest was set by his love for a woman beatrice portinari with whom his relationship evolved back on earth in florence who would lead him through a synchronicity of time and eternity to his ultimate transcendence as he attains redemption please note that in the first line of the above quoted verse rumi is talking of ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing not rightdoing and wrongdoing per se which roughly means that what we think to be good or bad is not necessarily what is actually good or bad our ideas though we may believe them to be based on god s word and will are much less important than love love transcends everything omnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori virgil s eclogues 10 69 love conquers all let us too yield to love p s click here to read the full text of the poem posted by s r piccoli a 1 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette literature philosophy religion february 14 2018 ash wednesday and st valentine s day ash wednesday and st valentine s day both occur on the same time this year and that s today of course ash wednesday has precedence says cardinal dolan and the coincidence of st valentine s day would not lift for us the duty of fasting and self denial but a more positive way to look at it he continues is that both days center on the heart the very symbol of st valentine s day is the heart the icon of love especially the romantic love between a man and a woman we ll send greetings and boxes of sweets that are both heart shaped ash wednesday the first of forty days of prayer penance and charity we call lent leading us to holy week and easter is also about the heart a heart called sacred wounded by unreturned love broken by callousness and selfishness the heart of jesus this heart is on fire with love for us but surrounded by a crown of thorns it will be pierced by a spear on that friday weirdly termed good on a hill called calvary a heart beating in the broken body of a man on a cross it is the love of this heart from which all true love flows it is this sacred heart we trust this wednesday it is this heart we turn to through our repentance and acts of sacrifice and atonement this wednesday st valentine willingly bows to this sacred heart for which even he lovingly gave his life eighteen centuries ago now then my dear fellow catholics have a blessed ash wednesday and a happy st valentine s day posted by s r piccoli a 9 30 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest etichette religion january 27 2018 the european r word the whole matter has developed into a national scandal to the point that even italian bishops conference cei president cardinal gualtiero bassetti felt it necessary to weigh in on this we thought talk of the white race had been buried for good he said after league lombardy governor candidate attilio fontana recently said migrants threatened the white race to be precise fontana said we have to decide if our ethnicity if our white race if our society continues to exist or if it will be wiped out subsequently he said that it had been a slip of the tongue and made it clear that it s not about being xenophobic or racist it s just about being logical or rational while some on the center right agreed there was a real risk to italian society in the numbers of migrants arriving here the mainstream media and parties condemned the comments european leaders in turn expressed concerns about what they consider an increasingly xenophobic tone of the campaign for the march 4 general election even ex prime minister silvio berlusconi whose center right forza italia party is the league s coalition partner for the elections said fontana s comment had been unfortunate but he also said that it would be a serious mistake to focus too much attention on one wrong word and not on the risk that europe loses its identity on the same wavelength but even more strongly league head matteo salvini said italy was under attack our culture our society our traditions and our way of life are threatened an invasion is under way he said however even matteo salvini failed to pronounce the word race why because in europe unlike in the u s the word race has been banned italy is obviously no exception even though the constitution itself expressly talks of different races in fact article 3 of the constitution of the italian republic reads as follows all citizens have equal social dignity and are equal before the law without distinction of sex race language religion political opinion personal and social conditions in other words according to the fundamental law of the country different races do exist but nonetheless you cannot pronounce the word in question one of political correctness s many mysteries now we all know there is a social science bias towards the belief that the differences between the different races are so minimal that they don t qualify as a strong enough reason to think that there are actually separate races accordingly there is actually only one human race and that is homo sapiens and by consequence the correct term to use is ethnicity yet even though the differences are minor they are real and they do define a person s race or ethnicity ethnic background or whatever you like to call it therefore if the exclusion of race as a term means denying the genetic differences between groups of people there is something deeply wrong with the whole concept ask a physician about this and he she will tell you that he she sees the differences between races in how they are affected differently by infectious diseases genetic diseases and cancer to be precise from a physician s point of view asking a person s ethnicity is basically a cultural question asking their race is asking something else the terms are not interchangeable as bruce t lahn and lanny ebenstein wrote in an opinion piece in nature let s celebrate human genetic diversity october 8 2009 a growing body of data is revealing the nature of human genetic diversity at increasingly finer resolution it is now recognized that despite the high degree of genetic similarities that bind humanity together as a species considerable diversity exists at both individual and group levels the biological significance of these variations remains to be explored fully but enough evidence has come to the fore to warrant the question what if scientific data ultimately demonstrate that genetically based biological variation exists at non trivial levels not only among individuals but also among groups in our view the scientific community and society at large are ill prepared for such a possibility we need a moral response to this question that is robust irrespective of what research uncovers about human diversity here we argue for the moral position that genetic diversity from within or among groups should be embraced and celebrated as one of humanity s chief assets the current moral position is a sort of biological egalitarianism this dominant position emerged in recent decades largely to correct grave historical injustices including genocide that were committed with the support of pseudoscientific understandings of group diversity the racial hygiene theory promoted by german geneticists fritz lenz eugene fischer and others during the nazi era is one notorious example of such pseudoscience biological egalitarianism is the view that no or almost no meaningful genetically based biological differences exist among human groups with the exception of a few superficial traits such as skin colour proponents of this view seem to hope that by promoting biological sameness discrimination against groups or individuals will become groundless we believe that this position although well intentioned is illogical and even dangerous as it implies that if significant group diversity were established discrimination might thereby be justified we reject this position equality of opportunity and respect for human dignity should be humankind s common aspirations notwithstanding human differences no matter how big or small we also think that biological egalitarianism may not remain viable in light of the growing body of empirical data somewhere in the web i also read that the mantra that race does not exist is roughly similar to claiming that teeth do not exist or perhaps hills do not exist with the latter being an especially good parallel it is perfectly correct that the notion of hill is ill defined and vague what precise height distinguishes a pile of dirt from a hill and a hill from a mountain but nevertheless denying the reality or usefulness of such a concept would be an absurdity similarly the notion of distinct human races genetic clusters across a wide variety of scales and degrees of fuzziness is an obviously useful and correct organizing principle generally speaking common sense should lead us to think that mentioning and being aware of racial differences is not the same thing as racism in fact racism is assuming those differences have an innate value scale attached one is better than another it s a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race merriam webster s dictionary but as voltaire once said common sense is not so common posted by s r piccoli a 5 48 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share 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