Last month I met many people and with each in a different way, we've got to think or talk about many things, including dared to dream like to say to me-as-doubts and convictions, and now, as he approaches a memory important to many peoples and cultures, namely the creation of eco Who left a deep but almost imperceptible, now all I have shared the past month, I will return in mind and celebrate these days: from the premises, promises, wishes, expectations and visions. Retrace some thoughts-while-rebuke become even wishes for this indescribable time we are going to celebrate. A Salamanca, Theology at the Facultad de San Esteban at the conference entitled. "Para coexistence en la Diversidad", a set of ideas, including international law and theology. Where I had to draw some ideas: God in cross-cultural perspective and I retranslated with: the God of cultures (Dios desde el versus the interculturalidad Dios de las Culturas). Approach wing history, to continue walking, a method that is not simply analysis and critique, but also self-criticism. A difficult change of perspective because not only recognize the rights of others, but we are surprised by the obvious and hidden wisdom, life in general and that of others. Not only defend equality, but to recognize the diversity and creativity as different possibilities, not only universities but multifaceted; claim of cultures as claimed identity and not merely as economic demands. Thirst of its origin, namely, thirst for meaning and significance. And again, God, not as property of religions, but the possibility given to anyone, the possibility of life of individuals and human communities. God, whose name, as Raimon Pannikar would say, is simply icon of the mystery and not a proper name and that people starting to learn to discover themselves, looking in their introspective reflections, as well as in their endless nomadism between external climate change , hierophanies and Theophanes. In this sense, then the mystery can not be understood without starting from the dynamism of cultures, and that "death of God" - in the words of Nietzsche is not the rejection of a doctrine, but the refusal of some, exclusion someone and its possibilities. And today this is an ethical challenge, social, as well as being anthropological and theological. Knowing the culture is to know God, that is closer to the mystery. The divine matrix is \u200b\u200bin fact the most human and the cosmos uamano: Amazonian areas, mountains, plains, seas, deserts, cities. The divine matrix are the events involving human beings, a human being who is sapiens before, during and after -sapiens as Edgar Morin would say-and will continue being what we do not yet know, as we do not know the mystery God is Great and small inner journey of individuals and communities who learn to know and recognize ... footprints, droppings of the forest ... smells, flavors, spaces, plants, lightning and thunder of the hurricane, feathers, leaves, pollen ... according to the poetry of Neruda . But all this life without God is merely a statue placed in a place. So, in remembrance of what I thought in November, during a conference: Merry Christmas. But in another place, and with other friends, we tried to understand what it means "inhabiting the planet today" and then and what we thought, now becomes another hope for this new time is looming , between past and present. Two alchemical elements that propel our interest today, our discussions, our concerns, economic, emotional, social. A verb: to live and a place: the planet.
A verb that indicates an ethical concern, a way of being, and a place with all its complexity, its size Frattari, visible and nvisibili. A set of concerns and also a multitude of subjects, because the subjects lugo also indicates, we are in fact many people inhabit the planet.
scompligliando So these two elements to put them upside down, I sense that is above all the constantly changing nature, but also constantly redesigned by human human-to ask for new approaches to life. Not only protect but also to propose, direct, manage ..., and sometimes make a complete change.
The link therefore between the living and the space where we feel it is therefore very close, because the place will take the form of our being.
And then this verb as complex and curious: habe habit, habit, inhabit. Eco HABERE: to have or continue to have. That is consietudine in one place. Live, reside, stay with someone, be ...
The first approach is therefore to live in it that conjures up, the verb that underlies the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing, presence, and ability to establish interpersonal relationships and intrattenenere and much fuller. A way of being so, it can not be reduced to a single model. Living is complex and this complexity derives from the way we or no awareness of what we have around. There have been moments in history that a dualist mentality has enabled easier: everything is dual: good and evil, black and white, equal and opposite, men and women ... all revealed the duality, but rather acts that beautiful text of the book of Proverbs sapienzale : there are three things that are too difficult for me and four do not understand at all, the way of the eagle in the sky, the viadel snake on the rock, the way the ship NALT sea la vida man in a young woman ... (Pro 30.18-19) E this text is placed in a text that will open more restless ocn questions perhaps dualist: Who made the world: God or being human ... who ascended to heaven, or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What's his name? (Pro 30, 4) But you feel: Always two, there are two kinds, both can live or die, everything is always two but no, perhaps we are born by a water molecule which in turn is a coposto, or perhaps born from the fire ... or perhaps something more complex ... a big-bang of something or someone ... Living so not with awareness of what we know, but with that of the unknown ... We are a bit 'tired of these styles of life that already know everything or only accept certain things and denying other possibilities and probabilities and not intervene or let the dreams or the imagination and therefore, no reality with its hidden dimensions as subtle and complex at the same time. At present, we must admit that we are not at the stage of the conclusions, but at the stage of change; a difficult process, in which, perhaps, simply perceive. We're like in the new era of the Neolithic: transition and change, migration and loss ... new ways ... Domestication of plants and animals and ourselves to learn to live in places with their natural resources. A time of learning: we change as we learn to return the responsibility to the world, but how many transformations and not only external metamorphosis, the features and locations, how many internal changes, different, self-worth in other ways ... How many processes of self-esteem, not to be ashamed of itself, but also not to shame the other, how many ideological processes inconclusive, sectarian ... ... Let's talk about dialogue, but perhaps the DIA = FRA ... is seen still in a dualistic and therefore at this time is important but not sufficient.
The world is not made in a balance of opposites, but also a creative chaotic diversity of parts of different worlds. If we read the story, how often changed because someone exceeded the limit of dualism. Someone decided to find out-for example-beyond gender, or to follow his ideals and dreams disobey the general rate (I can think about a little book that gave me: Dressed as the Santa Marina, Marina Minghelli. 1996) . And the story continues in this creative, daring approach and make contact with the invisible and visible, in other ways. But to do this is to walk the thin wires of survival. The story changed to other areas ....
We also realize that there are different ways of living, different ways of being. There is only Cartesian cogito ergo sum, but also: I love therefore I am; design; factory invented, I drink therefore I am, I sell and buy, write, weave, sculpt, drives, disagree, lego, melt, I flow; way; I sit down, cry, laugh ... I feel, I feel, I see I do not see, I'm hungry, I eat, not eat, I have to defend or not defend myself or maybe one breath, or maybe do all this together. There is a time for everything, sings the adage bibbliche of Ecclesiastes. There are some people in the world generations who were born in war and continue to live in war, others who have known only quiet times of peace and development, hunger and other abundance and then again by famine. ... All of this happens and it would be too good and easy to think that living means removing anything, reject or accept. It is not as simple as we would like, but is also much more beautiful and passionate about what we think. Even nature, its spontaneity, its ibris, expression that at times verges on the excessive, violent expression genetics, we are reminded.
Then talk about how to inhabit the planet and not evoke something holistic, that is something that remembers everything and nothing. Planets are small and large spaces are different geographies and territories, and houses are not homes, not the planet today is a poetic term, not only evokes trees, clean water, plants, animals and people in harmony. Planet is a complex term in which this same complexity instead of evoking the distance between the various elements, indicates more and more complicated and possible synergies. Indicates similarities with spiders and magnolias about our cells, much more than we think. How to find out then this complicity rather than this distance? How to find out so that we are more different, but that is why it is increasingly urgent to learn to trade, instead of thinking that we are far away ...
A complex world that we do not want to distract us from ourselves, as we Climate change and its causes, but actually invites us to deeper and deeper process of self-criticism. A planet that confronts us not only to the pure elements, but those who throughout history have fused together, perhaps even badly together, as some say-do-a strange menu: powders by killing the rivers of steel industries, ash combustion mineral oil, paint waste, sludges from water treatment chemical. And then, waste ink, acid sludge, animal faeces, urine of all kinds, poisonous and toxic sludge, ash, slag of aluminum, chromium, copper, zinc, cadmium in industrial quantities, tons of leachate, the liquid that the waste issue over time with decomposition. "Not even a Nobel prize for chemistry would be able to put together a cocktail so lethal." Except that this cocktail is thrown up by the Camorra of Campania in the belly, right where it is grown and farmed much of the food that ends up in half-Italian dishes. A system that pollutes the environment, is injurious to health, distorts the market power exploitation ... (He writes in an article published in the October International, John Mauro says that the complaint Peppe Ruggiero, author of the documentary Biùtiful cauntri and the essay "The Last Supper) and I I say: this is the planet, and is the planet in these processes slow or fast change in the earth, air. And 'the planet with its own entropy, but also with the human who sometimes upsets, as is mentioned in the article. This too is changing planet, which survives, that rebels, indeed, perhaps the slowest to change, we ourselves, humans, or rather, perhaps we are the slowest to admit that our mood swings have the power to change the planet.
Or rather, as the Scriptures say, maybe this is the right time, because today we are still restless on this planet. For some are inquitudini of economic survival, for others it concerns the ideological, institutional, or perhaps existential, emotional, etc.. but concerns and still want to live and, if possible, to let other people dress, because to live the planet need not be perfect, but imperfect. So, for this reason: Merry Christmas. And I leave you with three pictures:
The first collection while I was in the chorus of a community of my congregation: the convent of San Niccolò in Prato. The floor tiles, all wavy, marked by the footsteps
time someone, almost hollow, a material which has been hard on the shape of the daily life of each. A royal procession of life, and personal stories on Community, and how many stories in the footsteps of people!
The second tiferisce to be a lot of people to the market, I think the Latin American markets; daily mounting the place where to stay for the banquet or sell, this is an image and economic survival. A way of being that transforms life and space.
The third picture I take, but by an Arabic proverb, very nice: the air of heaven is that which blows between the ears of a horse ... a small space that evokes' unspeakable, but that perhaps evokes who is on the horse with an attitude, as it passes through the air and breaks the atmosphere and in complicity with the horse bends down between his ears and perceive, much more.
Three ways of being, along with those that everyone can add according to the familiarity he has with his life and, then, for this, again, Merry Christmas.
