of course I can't resist the hint of a question about my frog family.
so about faith...
I think that when I was about 21 or so, even though I had then discovered how interesting buddhism was, we had a dinner conversation with my dad, my brother and I. My dad was a very, very brilliant and (!) rigorously honest economist in france. He had been arrested by the gestapo in 1942 because he was giving fake economy numbers to the Nazis. He was taken to Buchenwald which was an extermination camp but after three months was transferred to a small place in Austria by a lake, frozen three months a year, and this was a camp of people considered as hostages. So supposed to be deleted one after the other in revenge if something happened in france. He was freed by the Americans and because the captain of the camp had let his office opened at night from D Day so a small trio of prisoners could come and listen to the bbc, two other prisoners and my dad tried for two hours with the american general to save the life of the German captain who was supposed to be executed immediately by the US general, as this was the military rule when a concentration camp was liberated for the top person in charge of it. So that was in vain. My dad came back to france looking thin as a ghost but alive.
So at that dinner for the first time we asked our dad if he knew which frenchman had denounced him to the gestapo, and he said he knew. We asked him if he had done anything against that man, and he said no and we asked him why, and he said because in those times of war/occupation you never knew why someone would denounce you, perhaps he was saving his own family in exchange. Then we asked him if he had any revenge feeling against the germans, and he said Germany after the peace of 1918 was under such economic sanctions that the country literally was famished for years, and it gave way to the crazy growing dialectic of Hitler but if you had been a young german then, this was like someone out to save your country. At the end of the dinner, I remember my brother and I were together and we talked about this, and we knew by then that our dad had definitely, even never talking about it, some deep dark memories from that past, and we thought, you know its like he will have faith in men or life as long as he lives, whatever happens.
So you know I have a feeling that that kind of faith is very close to unconditional love, and it is faith because our dad was always, always an optimist and he used to tease us saying, you are not going to be a pessimist, it is such an easy way !!!
yeah, pretty nice as I think of it
so about faith...
I think that when I was about 21 or so, even though I had then discovered how interesting buddhism was, we had a dinner conversation with my dad, my brother and I. My dad was a very, very brilliant and (!) rigorously honest economist in france. He had been arrested by the gestapo in 1942 because he was giving fake economy numbers to the Nazis. He was taken to Buchenwald which was an extermination camp but after three months was transferred to a small place in Austria by a lake, frozen three months a year, and this was a camp of people considered as hostages. So supposed to be deleted one after the other in revenge if something happened in france. He was freed by the Americans and because the captain of the camp had let his office opened at night from D Day so a small trio of prisoners could come and listen to the bbc, two other prisoners and my dad tried for two hours with the american general to save the life of the German captain who was supposed to be executed immediately by the US general, as this was the military rule when a concentration camp was liberated for the top person in charge of it. So that was in vain. My dad came back to france looking thin as a ghost but alive.
So at that dinner for the first time we asked our dad if he knew which frenchman had denounced him to the gestapo, and he said he knew. We asked him if he had done anything against that man, and he said no and we asked him why, and he said because in those times of war/occupation you never knew why someone would denounce you, perhaps he was saving his own family in exchange. Then we asked him if he had any revenge feeling against the germans, and he said Germany after the peace of 1918 was under such economic sanctions that the country literally was famished for years, and it gave way to the crazy growing dialectic of Hitler but if you had been a young german then, this was like someone out to save your country. At the end of the dinner, I remember my brother and I were together and we talked about this, and we knew by then that our dad had definitely, even never talking about it, some deep dark memories from that past, and we thought, you know its like he will have faith in men or life as long as he lives, whatever happens.
So you know I have a feeling that that kind of faith is very close to unconditional love, and it is faith because our dad was always, always an optimist and he used to tease us saying, you are not going to be a pessimist, it is such an easy way !!!
yeah, pretty nice as I think of it
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