(The high altar boy of the right is me with 12 years ... How things change! )
finished my previous post, titled "This week", saying "not so heavy to leave for my next post the continuation of this story or reflection." Admittedly, I sometimes go by the hills of Ubeda (indeed, beautiful city of Ubeda). What at first intended to be a day combining reading the book, Holy Week, ended in public confession and reflection on that week and what woke me. Anyway I have been asked to hang some pictures of the trip and will leave a slide with a selection of them.
And now as I was saying. The symbolism of the rose, the book and the cross of the passion they have some difficulty with the same philosophy incardinated of life. So, on 23 looked for a way to combine the beautiful (the rose) with the literature (the book) and the popular sentiment (Easter) and finished getting squarely in the arrow of Machado, who as you know, says well:
Who
lend me a ladder to climb the tree, to remove the nails
Jesus of Nazareth?
(Saeta Popular)
Oh, bolt, singing
the Christ of the Gypsies,
always with blood on their hands, always
unlock!
Song of the Andalusian people that walk every spring asking
stairs to climb to the Cross! Song
land mine, which casts flowers
the Jesus of the Agony,
and is the faith of my ancestors!
Oh, you are not my song!
I can not sing, or want,
this Jesus from the cross,
but that he walked in the sea!
For me, Antonio Machado, in this poem, makes a call to rebellion, rejection this Jesus from the cross, which symbolizes martyrdom, pain, freedom from sin through the suffering, the flowers take Jesus agony. This philosophy leads to the cult of suffering as an atonement. The message is that suffering is good, dignified and the pain turned to God to save him original sin. Two questions off the bat: one is that we will be thankful that make us suffer, because we open the path to salvation, if we offer this suffering for others (it was not anything like what we say?) And it hurts ... another would lead to submission to those that cause us suffering, we sink into poverty and misery, who have classes and take over the wealth ... we come to suffer in this world ... good! That Jesus from the cross, which refers Machado, reminds us each year, lest we forget. What are you complaining? Your misery and suffering is nothing compared to what happened that Jesus ... Take doses of humility and acceptance of suffering ... you're ready to handle what you throw, both in the farm and social injustice whatsoever. Suffering brings you closer to God ... thank God for having created us to suffer and who use them to pave the way to eternal salvation, those men in power "by the grace of God." Cult of suffering ... Take a visual on the names of the various guilds and see the incredible, complex and quirky titles.
But the life of Jesus, the crucified Jesus has other readings, at least from what we have come to us, which was heavily manipulated and redefined throughout history. Machado said he preferred that walked on the sea. I, not less, with all my respect for the teacher Machado, I propose three different scenes: He who walked on the sea, which distributed the bread and fish to those attending his sermon and that drove the merchants from the temple. Here's why:
The first is a sign of self-esteem, safety, problem solving, faith in their potential, the domain of the circumstances, why not say, of Utopia, to make possible what is impossible . Is what gives the subject of a strong personality, strong, assertive, self confidence, able to cope with the problems of life, although either alone, with a guarantee of success.
The second is solidarity and sharing with others what little you have, when others have even less. Implies an attitude of social justice, distributive, which increases the humanism of the person. It's a touch of this lopsided world where some have much and others none. Where one comes to the table of the poor that falls from the rich, after having taken this its own resources. It's a way to claim that distributive justice: This is what you get, and for all ...
The third is strength, rejecting speculation, marketing and deceit. The merchants, moneychangers, are driven from the temple he had been referring to become a den of thieves. This is now palpable outrage. The crisis has caused these merchants, moneychangers these speculators that we ruin them filling their pockets with money, making the system a den of thieves. Unfortunately we have no guts to take the whip, to shake them and throw them in our lives. Our politicians do not fall short of the circumstances and are driven by their interests instead of the people they represent, yielding to the blackmail of the money, leave them in the temple handle everything.
I'm not a believer, but go through a seminar, or perhaps for that reason, I reiterate that rejection of suffering as a way of life and praise the approach that leads to happiness from freedom, from personal development of each, creating and plotting ways of interaction, so that everything is summation and clarification in the evolutionary process of society and human beings in the first instance, therefore I am much closer to the three cases I mentioned that the ritual paraphernalia and trapping in the sufferings that are offered in religions. Therefore, I decide for one, prefer that walked on the sea, which fed and who drove the merchants from the temple. Which sought the betterment and happiness of its people ... maybe that's why they crucified him, and crucify him now, or continue to crucify on a daily basis ... if we do not look around us and we will see the Pharisees, the Romans and Judas ... I think it goes without being identified, but it sounds like a religion, power and banking ...
merchants in the temple, I remember Paul Casimir Cardinal Marcinkus and his dalliances with the finances of the Vatican, the Mafia and foreign businesses that ended with the bankruptcy of Banco Ambrosiano and its CEO, Roberto Calvi, hanging under a bridge in London (see http://es.wikipedia .org / wiki / Banco_Ambrosiano ). In all this there is a certain and large dose of cynicism, talking about helping the poor while playing in the evil world of finance and state. Then what better for them to put us in the club and masochistic sufferers, leading to the submission and conformity.
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