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‘But before you do it, I would like to know one thing. ‘I suppose you will kill me now,’ said the man who had come out of the tank. There was a man with a gun standing outside. The day came when the tank rusted and finally fell to pieces. He would forget himself in observing these things. Would gaze out through one hole or another, and watch the people passing, the children flying kites, the lovers making love, the clouds in the sky, the wind in the trees, and the birds that came to feed on heads of grass. But the police, when he appealed to them, were unhelpful, and there was little he could do about it on his own.īy degrees he began to use the bullet holes for a positive purpose. Nevertheless, he did at times sustain wounds, and the iron walls were pierced with many holes that let in the wind and the daylight, and some water when the weather was bad. He learnt to lie on the floor to avoid being shot. Morning and evening, without fail, volleys of bullets would rip through the walls of his tank. There he lived a blameless life without interruption from the world.
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Instead be bought a large corrugated iron tank, and furnished it simply with the necessities of life – a bed to sleep on, books to read, food to eat, electric light and heating, and even a large crucifix hung on the wall to remind him of God and help him to pray. But wounds are necessary.Ī certain man decided that life was too hard for him to bear. In this daybook I offer only a bundle of anecdotes, intuitions and conjectures – points where the shell of my own egocentricity has been broken through by the occasions of communal life. But since he teaches us by love far more than by explicit knowledge, I doubt if we can usurp his function, and instruct others in the science of loving, except indeed by loving them as he has loved us. When we discover the communal Christ, he does become our teacher.
#Keep koasher or hahi free#
Here too each member of a community must be free to move gently and learn by mistakes.Ī theology of the Holy Spirit is what we need. Otherwise there is a constant danger that Eros the horse will buck off the rider Agape. One’s own need for love should never have first place. Rather solemnly, some echo of St Paul comes to my mind, telling me that the freedom of the Spirit should not be made the cloak of licence. One has to be clear about one’s own motivation. Yet here too, detachment has to be learnt. Undoubtedly it is our experience that the physical expression of love within a group, by touching, by embracing, by the sharing of kai or drink or cigarettes, promotes peace and trust, diminishes the sexual tensions that rise from loneliness, and can on occasion heal the mentally disturbed. It is the same with regard to the physical expression of group love. The one essential thing is to accept the principle of sharing and so avoid all property quarrels. Let each one choose under God in what degree that person can practise poverty. We have to let ourselves be eaten by our neighbours.’ Yet to demand a total visible poverty would be unjust. I remember thinking, as I saw the Host raised in the early morning in the Cistercian monastery chapel at Kopua – ‘Yes, we have to become the Bread and the Wine. The core of it lies somewhere in the Eucharist. Communities cannot be founded without a spirit of poverty, that is, a spirit of detachment that expresses itself in the sharing of material and mental possessions. The practice of visible poverty is the same When Nebuchadnezzar grew talons and ate grass with the beasts of the field, it was an affliction and a portent. It is another thing to change one’s style of life. Yet I doubt if I am the man to make explicit the science of loving well that is implicit as possibility in even the most fragmentary and haphazard community. At the time you were trying to cope with the problem of explaining to people in the Visible Church, or to others who saw no reason to change from a non-communal style of living, just why change might be necessary, if not for them, then for their children. You said we needed a theology of communality.