@lukeburgis Yes, and a conversion that doesn't take context into account is no conversion at all. Jesus didn't come to gussy up a half-way house, rather, to announce the advent of an entirely new social reality. Eckhart: “There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half."
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Copy of tweet here: Echoing Gandhi's substrative take, there: "The sphere of spirit and politics is one." Someone in my notes (Heschel? Scholem?), similarly: "It is in concrete reality that redemptive time is actualized. Messianic time therefore constitutes a messianic reality of political change."
@krumbbumm As such, the interdependent attitude of the Bodhisattva or Jesus enduring the Cross is the most realistic, locating the meaning of life in whole-hearted, personal identification with the perfection, in this world, of human and earthly solidarity, liberation, salvation and peace.
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The bodhisattva, the saint, and the wise one suffer not so much by reason of what does them harm individually, but perhaps even more for humankind, for all sensible beings, for the cosmos. That is the experience of buddhakaya, of karman, of the Mystical Body of Christ, of the universal fraternity—to give quite different examples of this experience of universal solidarity. The reason that makes those who are “fulfilled” more open to this participation in reality is simple. The mahatma (the magnanimous one, the great soul), the jivanmukta (liberated soul), the insan kamil (perfect one), the shen jen (the holy one), the saint (hagios, sanctus, kadosh, etc.), the edel Mensch (the noble soul, according to Eckhart, commenting on Lk 19:12), to cite a great diversity of traditions—in a word, those who have reached human plenitude have broken the barriers of individualism and entered into communion with the entire cosmos. The wise person is the one who captures the hearts... - Raimon Panikkar