Who do you consider to be your true friend?
Someone who sees you as you are,
or as you would like to be seen ?
We saw a documentary film on Canvas TV
on 25 July 2010, about the training of young Jews from around the World in Israel to support the racistic war against Arabs and Palestinians over a land they have taken from them by military force.
How does a philosophical mind relate to the Israeli -Palestinian question, for example?
(Definition of PHILOSOPHIC in Google search:
"phil·o·soph·i·cal also phil·o·soph·ic, adj.)
1. Of, relating to, or based on a system of philosophy.
2. Characteristic of a philosopher,
as in equanimity, enlightenment, and wisdom.)
Background of the philosophic community project:
If an enlightened being exists, is because clarity exists.
Can a non-enlightened being be clear?
For me, the answer is positive. We must depart from that which is in itself evident and clear to us and to the other, and proceed from there to the more complex, the more difficult.
This project of a Philosophic community initiated out of the love for truth where the self love
must be based in humility and sincerity, and not in wanting to fool others, or in arrogance.
And we can call this project spiritual only when it so be.And we can call this a project of meditation, spiritual self awareness, relational therapy, or even of a fair trial, only when it so be.
Humanity must learn to solve its own conflicts, not in a stupid, unjust and violent way but in a fair, friendly, intelligent way.
To face the reality we humanly create is inevitable: The world of competition in the place of that of collaboration.The world of false appearances in the place of a world of justice.
The world of subjugation to material interests above social justice, liberty, equality, brotherhood.
This project of a philosophical community project, bases itself in an open dialogue or discussion where,
if we are honest, the cause of the most desperate and hopeless relational conflicts reveal themselves to our consciousness and are healed.
In a philosophical open discussion, as in a close relationship, no more is asked more than sincerity and good will.
In the truly spiritual, truly religious sense, where 'God is love' and 'love is God', the only 'sin' is dishonesty in love: (to place the image, usually the personal image, above the essence, clarity and truth.
The passive illusion, which is in fact the active deceit of the ego, places oneself, or one's own interests, above justice and love, in the relationship with someone else.
Where people contradict themselves and do not want to straighten up, out of pride, shyness or shame, which in the end is the same thing, where there is no good will or sincerity, no true relationship, no philosophical community is possible.
van Chapman
