Missing The Woods

For the many leaves we have missed the woods. So many religions and so many ways. Some ways are through penance and
self-loathing. What truth can a bed of nails express? Isn’t it a reminder to the fact one has a body that can feel the pain? Such a truth cannot find the joys of a life firmly fixed on Truth. Jesus could on the strength of it break Sabbath if there were reasons for doing so. (St. Lk: 14:1-6)
God for some seems most peculiar. They need to secure the holiness by their own brute majority in numbers. Any perceived insult to His Glorious name in their misguided notions, so they think, they must avenge by bloodshed. Cannot their God avenge such insults by Himself?
Religion for many has ceased to be significant: Of what worth their religion is if their God has to be invoked for sparing their investments or wealth from ruin? In their calculations God can be broken down in dollars and cents.
Show me a religion that can stand by itself. It has Truth in such measure that accepts all life forms equally where lamb may dwell safely by the lion and a babe may play on the hole of the asp (Isaiah11: 6-9). Mark of Truth is peace and joy of an overflowing kind. It connects with everything else and grows more abundantly unto something good for all concerned. The kid shall replenish a leopard and a wolf shall not lead the lamb astray.
Love, can it stand itself? No! It connects every time. So would our love for God. Only we express in our patience, kindness, peace with others. Since we know Truth in patches it is our safest bet.
benny

The Moral Imperative

Pragmatism as I stated in the previous post is a compromise to succeed. Any one who wants to succeed at whatever cost it is a seductive proposition. The classic example of it is the keystone of Bolshevik ideology: the end justifies the means. From the fate of Soviet bloc we know that even such a method cannot guarantee success for long. Let us turn our attention from movements on a large scale to the individual. If I cannot succeed without turning opportunities to my advantage what use is my moral sense?
Am I not justified to let adrift my moral imperatives to succeed in a cutthroat world?
Alas, I have no such luxury to escape Truth no matter what value I may attach to it for all intents and purpose.
Truth is the bulwark that keeps all life forms secure for all time to come. It is the only touchstone for my life to separate my identity or soul from those of others. Truth of nature, of experience and that of action are building blocks for all time.
I may fail here and now as St. Thomas in the apocryphal story. But I can always vindicate my life in supplying some other in another time and place. So do I take the easy way out and lose my soul or strive to save it from every contamination of this world?
There is no time out from my soul imperative: my character
benny