When you sit down and think about life and your life, you have to one day look at Ghandi. Most people will look at his sayings and his actions rather than see him as a man. A man who decided to be who he was, not a man who was just born that way. Because it is our decsion, we are our commanders. I believe that is the main point to see out of this great man's life.
Some comments on Ghandi Life....
-playful father
-he could taalk to an entire crowd and you could swear he was talking to you
-he accepted the bullet that killed him - the man needed to do that, and the man allowed him to become the martyr that he needed to be. He also accepted and forgave him as the trigger was being pulled.
-his autobiography - my story of my experiments with truth
- he was part of an arranged marriage, initially he was a jealous and mean and upset husband.
- he deserted his father on his death bed to go have sex. That's when his father died. That was the basis of his dutiful beginning, and he became the son of society.
- became a lawyer....1st case, can't speak and is mortified.
- at 24 he became working on the freedom of the south african black and various other races.
- tried to change the laws. - but laws aren't the truth. Every law he changed, they created another law to beat him.
- he created a commune where everyone could live together as one group of people. Everyone was treeated as equal. Even his family was treated as equal people, just as everyone else.
- He told all women to go against all the new laws in south africa that said that indian women could not be married to an indian man, and all marriages were null and void. He gets all the women walkout and start doing things in the city. Start taking up jobs, and see what they do then. Suddenly, he single handedly emancipated all women. hundredds 100, 000's walked off their job, as a protest to what is going on.
- Ghandi refused to let people say that the english were bad people. He said there are no bad people. The english need to be liberated as muc as we need to be liberated.
-Christ gave me the message, Ghandi gave me the method. - MLK
- quotes by ghandi:
- A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
-Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
- An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
- An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
In the end we are of everything , and we are all together.
"I am he, as you are we,
and we are altogether" - beatles
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Ghandi Death - Good or Bad part II
Part II
Gandhiji, or what has become spelled as Ghandi, was a lawyer who decided there was something that needed to be done in the miuddle of the violence that was ghoing on in his country. In the process, Gandhiji( Ghandi) has taught us how to think, view the world , and believe in the fact that one person can change the world. In his Thoreau based nonviolence, praying, and speaking protest towards the things that he saw were wrong. Many say it was his opinion he was forcing on others: This is a valid argument, but Gandhiji only stated that he thought we should treat ourselves better.
Here are a few of Gandhiji (ghandi) quotes as an example of his teachings (so you can decide):
"Be the change you hope to see in the world"
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. "
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. "
"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. " - Ghandi's view of himself. As if this was merely what he knew he was suppose to do, and he knew he would end just as he did. And that was ok!
The man who killed Ghandi walked up to him in the street. He bowed to him as if seeking advice, and shot him three times. What a full act of Betrayl many have yelled. He was and is nationally mourned. Many have been appalled of this - but I say
Gandhiji, or what has become spelled as Ghandi, was a lawyer who decided there was something that needed to be done in the miuddle of the violence that was ghoing on in his country. In the process, Gandhiji( Ghandi) has taught us how to think, view the world , and believe in the fact that one person can change the world. In his Thoreau based nonviolence, praying, and speaking protest towards the things that he saw were wrong. Many say it was his opinion he was forcing on others: This is a valid argument, but Gandhiji only stated that he thought we should treat ourselves better.
Here are a few of Gandhiji (ghandi) quotes as an example of his teachings (so you can decide):
"Be the change you hope to see in the world"
"A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. "
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. "
"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. " - Ghandi's view of himself. As if this was merely what he knew he was suppose to do, and he knew he would end just as he did. And that was ok!
The man who killed Ghandi walked up to him in the street. He bowed to him as if seeking advice, and shot him three times. What a full act of Betrayl many have yelled. He was and is nationally mourned. Many have been appalled of this - but I say
It wasn't a bad thing!
This man bowed to him in respect. Ghandi saw this and very well might have seen the gun as well, but the man was put in front of Ghandi for the one purpose he was on this planet for. He released the most powerful force and tool that Ghandi had left in his arsenal. Per Ghandi's belief, Ghandi's advanced and evolved soul was finally allowed to grow and add itself into the vast currents that connect us all. By his passing, it has awakened many many lines of energy to turn toward the positive. Since his death, his vision, his dreams, his thoughts, and his way of life has become a model of peace and humanity. Ghandi's soul and energy still guide us into a future filled and signified by goodness and acceptance.
What do you think? Am I completely off base?
What do you think? Am I completely off base?
Gandhiji's death - Good or Bad part I (interconnected)
Gandhiji helped get the Sikhs and the Muslims to sign a peace pact; since they were both refugees in India. After a 7 day long fast at 78 years old, constant public prayer meetings, and constantly asking for the fighting to stop; the two groups came toa n agreement.
Many saw Gandhiji as a Muslim sympathizer. They tried to kill him a number of times. Gandhiji's comment toward a bomb that was thrown into the prayer tent, and out the other side, was that "Death is our true friend. It is ignorance that makes us suffer." He had also previously stated that "Death very well might allow us to live again." Death to Gandhiji was not the sad time that we westerners make it out to be. Death is a time to allow the spirit out of its mortal cage. Gandhiji stated that the spirit is connected to the energy that connects us all. In addition he was a believer in Transcendetalism.
Transcendetalism is the 19th century belief othat through Nature we get closer to God. Ralph Waldo Emmerson, the first person to write about Transcendetalism Under Emerson's tutelidghe, Henry David Thoreau wrote the so-called "Bible" of Transcendetalism named WALDEN. The other aspect of the belief that Gandhiji understood and enjoyed, was the mere belief that every living creature was innerconnected. Gandhiji demonstrated, modeled, and showed the world that we should care about everyone equally. Additionally, there is the view that we are all connected by am energy that emits and connects all living things.
Many saw Gandhiji as a Muslim sympathizer. They tried to kill him a number of times. Gandhiji's comment toward a bomb that was thrown into the prayer tent, and out the other side, was that "Death is our true friend. It is ignorance that makes us suffer." He had also previously stated that "Death very well might allow us to live again." Death to Gandhiji was not the sad time that we westerners make it out to be. Death is a time to allow the spirit out of its mortal cage. Gandhiji stated that the spirit is connected to the energy that connects us all. In addition he was a believer in Transcendetalism.
Transcendetalism is the 19th century belief othat through Nature we get closer to God. Ralph Waldo Emmerson, the first person to write about Transcendetalism Under Emerson's tutelidghe, Henry David Thoreau wrote the so-called "Bible" of Transcendetalism named WALDEN. The other aspect of the belief that Gandhiji understood and enjoyed, was the mere belief that every living creature was innerconnected. Gandhiji demonstrated, modeled, and showed the world that we should care about everyone equally. Additionally, there is the view that we are all connected by am energy that emits and connects all living things.
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