Learning: faith

[Heidi and Dan Chay]

dear dan,
let me think about faith.
thank you florian.
with you I think on your thoughts,
thinking, learning,
in sharing, connecting,
neither simply yours, nor mine

another whole in the expanding
universe of wholeness.

faith is a noun
faith is not a verb
a being, yes?  not a becoming.
"leap of faith" would be a one-to-many mapping,
verb, becoming.

faith is the now
without past, without future
"faith in" has both past and future
another one-to-many mapping
faith has siblings
and ancestors and progeny
that give it meaning
what, why, where, when, how, who

faith is real
without any lingual mood
yes, they may be "expressions of faith"
that reveal mood*


faith is
faith is not to do
yet, for many of my friends I think
their faith is an expression of commitment
to increasingly love, learn, and create.


faith for a terrorist, perhaps,
means control by sowing fear
in a religion of death
and destruction

faith in a host universe
of fragmentation
rote learning,
stove-pipe thinking,
busy-ness,
unquestioning obedience,
and apathy.


faith don´t has a direction
neither coming from
nor going to
neither given from
nor related to
faith don´t has an intention
yes, I think I understand,
if we consider faith and not its siblings
nor offspring,
it may be so

faith is vertical position
for standing and understanding
loyal, true, constant,
steadfast, staunch?

i am within faith
faith is within me
who is without what faith?

perhaps
faith is like the shore of a lake
or the coast of an island
or forks in paths

florian
thank you
dan

florian fischer
begleitung im wandel
münchener 6
10779 berlin
fon 0049.30. 2116752
fax 0049.30. 2115943
florianfischer at ff-wey.com

dan chay
kenai alaska
http://www.learning-communities.com

*  See these interviews with bin Laden:

Talks with Osama bin Laden
by Robert Fisk
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=archive&s=fisk_wtc_19980921
>From the September 21, 1998 issue of The Nation.

ABC Interview with Bin Laden
'World's Most Wanted Terrorist'
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/transcript_binladen1_981228.h
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