Everybody Lies

I've thought about what Dr. House is really saying here... I think it's a practical truth. 



We live in a real world. In this world, what is real is always fleeting.

Lies are like shadows. They deny or expose our thinking to truths either fully concealed or only partially concealed to our naked understanding.

For good or ill, what determines how our minds are exposed to the truth is not light but darkness. And our hearts (our love) react accordingly.

(Remember, the First Night is the Sky of Illumination.)

Those with bright intentions and those with dark intentions both use shadow to awaken the seeker in the self... Think about it.

And so Dr. Gregory House says,

"Everybody lies."

I do not think he's saying one should make it a practice to deceive, mind you. But to brace ourselves because in this world, "everybody lies".

THEREFORE, to thy own self be true.

"No one changes."

So seeker be true.

Seek your permanent self.

And just be.

Be the change to master change.

Or you may never live.

Be in love. Be alive.

Be yourself.

Be brave.

Live.

Do no harm.

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I simply love the House MD series! Kudos to the brilliance of the entire cast and crew.

Truth hurts. After all, we begin life in this world not fully accustomed to it: Afterwards realizing... then growing bright. (By the grace of God, in my view.)

The Haze

Hazing is all about the "haze".

There has been a lot of public controversy about hazing. Most of it is well founded.

This matter mostly concerns our youth.

Because most of those who speak out against hazing are grieving parents who have lost a son or a daughter to it - respected fathers and beloved mothers in the Nation.

For many are the names heard who perished from the ineptitude and utter recklessness of those who haze who understanding nothing about the "haze". And it is always one life too many, and it is always one of our hopeful and aspiring, spirited, young starshines.

Those who themselves did not conquer the haze now use their blindness to mindlessly destroy young lives and young dreams. They do not haze, they simply abuse. Some of them so wantonly and so recklessly that perhaps they have come to feel they have a special license to secretly propagate their violence in the minds and hearts of our children in the Nation.

They have no such right.

Those traditions who transmit violence for violence's own sake are evil and empty and also blind. It mires the spirit of our youth permanently in a state of inward confusion and afflicts them in their formative ages until they themselves resolve to regard violence as a point of clarity and resolution. Until they themselves become inwardly drawn to violence as a mode and an answer to interior conflicts.

It is a betrayal.



Those who did not physically perish - have themselves perished - from the thought - that lived within the formative longing in them - for those self-same spirit ideals of civic trust and human solidarity integral to the formation of a crucial sense of a uniquely personal sense of identity - distinctive - yet identifiable with and within a greater, common belonging - a civic identity, a citizenship.

- selah -

The issue at hand as regards the controversy on hazing, I am convinced, is not really about hazing but about those who have corrupted its spirit and living tradition. It is really about criminal abuse, spiritual corruption, and the betrayal of the common trust of our generations.

Hazing is an act of passing on. One does not endure it or merely survive it, one must conquer it and from it prevail in passing from a past life into another one.

It afflicts in an inductee, a deliberate sense of confusion and this state is - the haze.

How this is done may be physical or mental or both. And though it shall and - it must - always involve a level of pain, it must never be done to excess. Because it is intended to be a spiritual rigor. Those who pass it on must be careful in passing it on - because the act itself always contains something...

One emerges from the haze, into the fullness of the clarity of its intended evolution. It is always part of a program of initiation and indoctrination. And it is always an act of spiritual connection, sacred as well as intimate. It proves trust and blesses it. A paradox to those who do not experience it from within.

The haze is what it produces. Because a lie is a lie is a lie - but - it is not self-deception unless one believes that a lie is not a lie - inasmuch as to knowingly tell a lie and to knowingly impugn the Truth is not the same action.

It has something to do with character building - and - it has everything to do with leadership formation in a peerage Institution.

Because self-deception is the enemy of every Code that institutionalize leadership professionally in the formal and in the national, civil as well as military. And it shows no prejudice to rank just as much as the Code shows no yield to the equality of its application.

Because ultimately, it is only a question of one or the other.

The Code answers to a question, and it is a question of honor, and it is a question too - that no man nor woman may know the answer to - unless he or she becomes - and is made answerable to - the question itself.

And is not a question of violence - or how violent.

The haze is what it produces: It makes for a vigilant spirit and an upright heart. It produces focus and clarity of intention. And it is always an integral part of a greater spirit of a living tradition of leadership formation and academic excellence. It prepares leaders to serve among leaders.

But if it only passes on an empty spirit and a dead tradition - in this controversy on hazing, we may also see - the blind can never lead the blind.
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Life itself will haze us, you know. Individuals and Nations too. And in the world outside, if one loses sight of one's own true self - or what is true - it will be permanent, and it will be for real.

Fear only what is certain.

Then KCCO.

Salutation #95

All truth leads to freedom

only because our freedom is constantly

being perfected by the freedom of the LORD.

Freedom that is authentic to our humanity

is always relevant to our human need to be happy.

It is not the false image

of that presumptuous freedom

that shuns the accountability

that is an inherent responsibility

of an authentic human freedom.

Therefore,

freedom is not free

that binds us to the Evil in all evil things -

freedom is free which binds us to the truth

of God and of each other in common humanity.

(Truthfulness)

To be truthful,

seek first the Source of all truth

for as God is, we are.

Truth is

the mother tongue of heaven:

In the truth we are able to understand

and through it we are able to be understood.

Truth is

the common medium of all virtue:

By the truth good is recognized and applauded

and because of it evil is revealed and punished.

Therefore,

love the LORD

in everything and with everything.

This is the path of all true things.

- selah -

Strive to be aware of this

and in thy own understanding

strive in all things to speak the truth,

mean what you speak, speak what you mean,

and own up to what you mean

- doing all things in love and out of love -

for God and for thy fellow citizens upon the earth.

Exercise truthfulness

with a compassionate regard

for the humanity of other people -

so be gentle when you should speak.

For the habitual grace of truthfulness

does not bind us to the truth - rather -

it binds the truth - through us -

into the active service of charity

so that truth is made available,

by the demands of prudence

and command of charity,

most especially when it counts.

The object of this virtue is truth itself,

that which fills with substance all things whole

and endow it with force and meaning

which is more than its words.

The act of this virtue

is the honorable expression of truth

and this honorable expression - being -

the explicit recognition

amidst our human need for absolute truth

that the truth that lives in other people's lives

(the particular reality of the individual good)

- must also be recognized -

as an integral part

of this particular virtue's

expression of right action.

For the truth must be

- by its own virtue -

is wielded for no other reason

than to make men free.

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Truthfulness is an expression of the cardinal virtue, Justice.

The individual exercise of truthfulness is therefore, simultaneously both a personal as well as a civic virtue.

The ancient Filipinos possessed this virtue to a high degree.

On Being Strong

Love the LORD, thy God, in everything and with everything. This is the truth.

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Our precious Starshine -

STRIVE.

Strength is primarily expressed in the masculine.

Strength is fidelity to the truth; a measure of its brightness.

It is the noble glow of its own conviction;

the ascendant magnitude of our every embrace

- of all those living and everliving things -

that belong to the timelessness in our souls.

Strength is secure in its patience

being sure of the reality of itself;

born of the light that understands

the exactness of its own truth.

It is not harsh and uncertain of its own reality;

born not of the lie that in the darkness understands not itself.

Strength is certain in its meekness.

It is a temper of the will that neither rises nor falls

but is even and steadfast against the assault of false things.

It is not a hardness that hides its unfamiliarity to its own virtue;

being established not by ignorance of the value of the beautiful things

it exists to serve and to keep.

It is not coldness. It is not distance. It is not decrease.

It is warmth. It is presence. It is increase.
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20110805

Man is a creature of possibilities. Therefore, know your limits. But do not allow yourself to be defined by them.

Salutation #45

(The Gift)

You know in your heart, dear Starshine,

you belong to something greater than thee!

Now there is a dream that lives in thy every spirit

and this truth in thee gives thy soul its powers of flight.

It is present in all thy reaching out to both heaven and earth

for thy dream is an irreplaceable fragment of a greater dreaming.

You are a person called to the labor of the earth;

a citizen purposed by God for the peace of thy nations;

a promise born into the great dreaming of the exile children of Mankind;

thy soul summoned by Our Creator from the nothingness of the void;

a unique fragment of what once was now reside as a mystery in thy own self.

In thy every heart,

you long for thy own place in time,

in so many ways of expressions unique to each of thee

yet each equally true according to thy reaching out

for that same timeless seeking for answers

to the one question that lay at the very beginning of thy being

beckoning thee unto a memory exceedingly sublime

- neither past, present, nor future -

when the Heavens above thee were one,

and the Earth was at one with its own native Sky.

When the portals of Eternity were open and attentive to thy humanity

and the Throne of the LORD burst forth with a golden radiance

embracing all things everywhere with the splendor of the glory of God.

When the Presence of the LORD was upon the face of the Earth,

ministering freely to all thy worlds, within and without,

calling forth all creatures to God, and fruition, and constant felicity;

blessing all the realms of creation with every abundance and in all truth.

When the Light of the LORD filled thy Earth and Sky,

uniting all living beings, seen and unseen,

into the glorious Peace of the one great belonging of God.

Your happiness is a freedom to search for the answers

to that one longing that lives in thy every heart -

a longing that the LORD has for thee lovingly invested

born of a promise thy Creator has laid at the seat of thy own soul;

a freedom to give shape thy every life's purpose

and a hope to whet thy faith for the things of heaven

to stir thy heart unto a remembrance of God

and in God a remembrance of all things in each thy behalf.

For thy common salutation is Peace

so mean it well for this Peace is of a truth;

a good that is beyond all understanding.

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Mabuhay po tayong lahat! Peace. Salaam. Shalom. God bless all His nations of the one family of the nations of Mankind.

Everybody have a great weekend!

Heartsong

I AM the unsung song
that lives within a dream;
the seed within a soul.

Every infinite universe
embraced from within
the heart of God.

I am the road
not the destiny,
I am the journey
not the destination,
I am the dreaming
not the dream,
I am the becoming,
not the being,
I am the singing,
not the song,
I am the climb
not the peak,
I am what soars!

I begin with a praise -
I breathe the air,
and cry out loud:
Alleluia to the LORD!

I end with a praise -
I lift my head,
and bow my heart:
Alleluia to the LORD!

I am heartsong.

Virtue of Truthfulness

Now please, here is our challenge for this month - 201108

Salutation #24

Cor ad Cor Loquitur

Have you observed now, dear starshine, how some of our written human languages are read from left to right, some from right to left, and there are yet even some that are read from top to bottom?

Of all of these, Beloved of God, the most useful ones to you are those that can be understood by all human hearts - those that are written in the language of the truth.

Heart speaketh unto heart, starshine,

so let the language of the truth

- in all its forms -

being the tongue of Peace and of all of heaven,

let this be thy official tongue -

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(A Salutation to the Youth of all Nations - On Peace, Human Citizenship and the Longest Night)

PEACE be upon you,

Our beloved Starshine -

kindred youth from all nations.

You of the generations of life -

all you children of the light,

kindred spirits, one to another,

called to that Promise of old

made by He Who Is to our Father Abraham -

all you numberless stars of the skies above thy souls

allied to the peace of all the children of good will

drawn from the sacred remembrances

of all the nations of the earth

through whom the LORD God has deigned

to bless all our national communities

in this present time, under this season of Peace,

citizens of all creation,

I salute you.

Let the awakening of these present times

be a certain comfort to you, Beloved of God,

and be glad for the coming of the new Day, alleluia.

For this long night

is a necessary passage

- as you shall see -

gather thy selves therefore, in this twilight,

and turn thy hearts away

from the waning of the dark

that you may come to discern

what lies ahead.

Before us, beloved starshine, are new horizons -

and you are the strength

with which it becomes possible

to reach out toward all these brighter tomorrows.

Speak thy truth, therefore -

ask of thy LORD and God, "what do I love, O God of All?",

that you may understand

with an understanding that leads to Peace

and the Peace which shall be your common right

- one with another -

established in thy faith in God and thy humanity.

Before us, beloved starshine, are new horizons -

speak thy truth, therefore -

ask of thy self, "what do I love, O heart?",

that you may lay claim

to that Morning which is thy own

- together this time -

a future that is fully human, Beloved of God;

a work of heaven and the earth.

Love the LORD, therefore -

our most precious starshine,

not with a love of division in thy heart

for your prayers shall never ascend to the unity of God

if War is in thy heart.

The strength of all our human communities

spread across the sheltering wings of all our nations

is the product of your own personal commitment

to the labor of completing your humanity.

Everything is given to establish you upon the grounds of this truth -

that you are a human being, a creature before your one Creator,

you are a work of Peace - a living work -

established in the life of thy nations

and entrusted to the wisdom

of all thy lineages of honorable religion,

above all to the three great Abrahamic faiths

(Judaism, Christianity, and Islam)

to whom it is especially entrusted by God,

the labor of the Peace of these present times,

and so it is through thy own humanity, starshine,

that you multiply

- through thy constant faith and humility -

the excellence of your citizenship, one with another,

before the LORD and the assembly of the nations in Eternity.

Remember this always

and love the other as yourself.

Be patient, starshine,

and do this without being bitter -

believe constantly in all good things

without despairing of self or of others like thy self

for the darkness is but the darkness

that does not lead to the light.

Give praise and thanks to the LORD,

for God alone provides

and His grace alone is sufficient.

Say to thy heart,

"everything is changing around me, alleluia."

And after the long night,

Beloved of God,

the Day is sure to come -

for thee.

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Mabuhay ang puso ng ating mga kabataan! God bless the youth of all our nations.

Virtue of Truthfulness

The Longest Night