Monday, June 20, 2011
One Meal Advocacy in Iloilo empowers filipino youth
Workshop Courage facilitated by Nicanor Perlas & MISSION in Iloilo June 25/26
Nicanor Perlas will facilitate Workshop Courage in Gamot Cogon, Zarraga, Iloilo on June 25 and 26 from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. The workshop is free. Pls. bring your own lunch, snacks and beverages. For more information about the venue, directions to the venue and to confirm attendance pls. text or call Jim Scharman of Mission Iloilo at 09279711460 or Cecille of Mission Manila at 09178997603. Check out the description of the workshop for your reference.
WORKSHOP COURAGE
Mastering Ourselves and Rebuilding Societies
Facilitated by MISSION
(Movement of Imaginals for Sustainable Societies
Thru Initiatives, Organizing, and Networking)
CAUTION: This workshop can change your life forever.
Take it only if you are ready for a new You that will, together with others,
create a new World. Are you ready?
Despite the life and death challenges that humanity faces today, many do not want to have anything to do with positive social change. While they care about their future and the fate of humans and the planet, they feel they are too small, too insignificant to do anything about the massive problems that are overwhelming nations around the world.
Yet history offers a different picture. Throughout the centuries, all over the world, individuals, acting together, with courage, against impossible odds, have succeeded in shaping their societies and have altered the course of history. And scholars have now articulated how these seemingly ordinary individuals achieved their inspiring deeds.
Now we can do the same. Now we can begin the process of profound inner and outer change by embarking on an exciting and unique learning journey.
Welcome to MISSION’S Workshop Courage:
Mastering Ourselves and Rebuilding Societies.
Workshop Courage is a unique, proven, and potent integration of science, spirituality, social theory, psychology, and other disciplines – all in the service of profound inner and outer transformation. MISSION has successfully conducted this workshop in key areas of the country as well as in the United States of America and Europe.
Workshop Courage aims to awaken the creative “imaginal” in us, the Infinity within, our Real Self - our massive, unstoppable force for truth, enthusiasm, compassion, courage, good, transformation, and initiative. In addition, the workshop aims to introduce participants to MISSION’s framework of societal transformation that creative individuals (imaginals) can realize by coming and acting together.
Whether or not you ultimately join efforts with MISSION to create a better society, you will benefit from getting a glimpse of your Real Self, the Real You, that can connect to the Source of all that is, in order to shape worlds and to change destinies forever. You will learn to achieve success by harnessing the very forces at work in and in partnership with the center of the world creative process itself.
MISSION is a cultural, spiritual, scientific movement of individuals from civil society, government, and business. MISSION was founded in 2010 and aims to create a better country, a better world, on the basis of profound inner transformation. MISSION has active network nodes in Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, and Baguio as well emergent nodes and beginning work in other provinces. For more information, especially on the meaning of the word, “imaginal”, kindly visit www.imaginalmission.net.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Happy 150th Birthday Pepe Rizal
Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed,
Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost,
With gladness I give you my Life, sad and repressed;
And were it more brilliant, more fresh and at its best,
I would still give it to you for your welfare at most.
On the fields of battle, in the fury of fight,
Others give you their lives without pain or hesitancy,
The place does not matter: cypress laurel, lily white,
Scaffold, open field, conflict or martyrdom's site,
It is the same if asked by home and Country.
I die as I see tints on the sky b'gin to show
And at last announce the day, after a gloomy night;
If you need a hue to dye your matutinal glow,
Pour my blood and at the right moment spread it so,
And gild it with a reflection of your nascent light!
My dreams, when scarcely a lad adolescent,
My dreams when already a youth, full of vigor to attain,
Were to see you, gem of the sea of the Orient,
Your dark eyes dry, smooth brow held to a high plane
Without frown, without wrinkles and of shame without stain.
My life's fancy, my ardent, passionate desire,
Hail! Cries out the soul to you, that will soon part from thee;
Hail! How sweet 'tis to fall that fullness you may acquire;
To die to give you life, 'neath your skies to expire,
And in your mystic land to sleep through eternity !
If over my tomb some day, you would see blow,
A simple humble flow'r amidst thick grasses,
Bring it up to your lips and kiss my soul so,
And under the cold tomb, I may feel on my brow,
Let the moon with soft, gentle light me descry,
Let the dawn send forth its fleeting, brilliant light,
In murmurs grave allow the wind to sigh,
And should a bird descend on my cross and alight,
Let the bird intone a song of peace o'er my site.
Let the burning sun the raindrops vaporize
And with my clamor behind return pure to the sky;
Let a friend shed tears over my early demise;
And on quiet afternoons when one prays for me on high,
Pray too, oh, my Motherland, that in God may rest I.
Pray thee for all the hapless who have died,
For all those who unequalled torments have undergone;
For our poor mothers who in bitterness have cried;
For orphans, widows and captives to tortures were shied,
And pray too that you may see you own redemption.
And when the dark night wraps the cemet'ry
And only the dead to vigil there are left alone,
Don't disturb their repose, don't disturb the mystery:
If you hear the sounds of cithern or psaltery,
It is I, dear Country, who, a song t'you intone.
And when my grave by all is no more remembered,
With neither cross nor stone to mark its place,
Let it be plowed by man, with spade let it be scattered
And my ashes ere to nothingness are restored,
Let them turn to dust to cover your earthly space.
Then it doesn't matter that you should forget me:
Your atmosphere, your skies, your vales I'll sweep;
Vibrant and clear note to your ears I shall be:
Aroma, light, hues, murmur, song, moanings deep,
Constantly repeating the essence of the faith I keep.
Dear Philippines, to my last goodbye, oh, harken
There I leave all: my parents, loves of mine,
I'll go where there are no slaves, tyrants or hangmen
Where faith does not kill and where God alone does reign.
Farewell, parents, brothers, beloved by me,
Friends of my childhood, in the home distressed;
Give thanks that now I rest from the wearisome day;
Farewell, sweet stranger, my friend, who brightened my way;
Farewell, to all I love. To die is to rest.
His original writing was said to have no title, the title Mi Ultimo Adios was given by Mariano Ponce.