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　　”Compassionate intelligence permits the kind of understanding and sharing of ”otherness” that we call ”identification”. To generalize this ability as a skill in learning would lead to an use of the humanities seldom encountered today. When generalizing about the possibility of applying methods of identification and compassionate insight to the understanding of motivation in mankind as a whole, we must recognize the destructiveness in ourselves as well as in others ( which is essentially implied by the Socratic axiom ”Know thyself”). At the same time, this knowledge needs to be matched by an awareness that at some time every human being experiences a profound longing to be good. This level of insight or truly compassionate intelligence requires an attitude of humility about knowledge as the first step. To ”become as a child” is a far more subtle idea than is generally assumed”.

Edith Cobb

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 Since the 3.11’s natural and man-made disasters happened, almost eight months passed.

Now I could write a letter of appreciation, apology and entreaty to you.

 My special silent prayers for who were sacrificed by other natural disasters and man-made disasters during past eight months.

  Since the “ 3.11” happened, it seems to verify about Japan’s history about what I heard from my parents and I learned from various references on the War.

  I  came to the point that if Japanese citizens accept this 3.11’s precious message humbly, we could be forgiven the past sin and fault, and we could transcend our limitations for a sustainable future.

 

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  After" the 3.11",2011 , I have developed following three activities concepts for the 3.11 2012, the first year anniversary. Mothers, women, girls, younger people, and creative & imaginative men of various ages have awakened, stood up and taken actions in various ways. I could have certain confidence a kind of profound “value shift” is going on. 

  1) Japan  Report  <“The 3.11 Revelation “:Requiem, Purification（transcendence）, Hope (vision) for A Sustainable Future >- published for the“3.11 Anniversary” ,every year.

 A whole picture of Japanese‘s transformation efforts and various practical examples as forerunners would be compiled as a report in Japanese, English and Chinese. 

2)  “An Independent Safety Committee for Child, Living Creature, Ecosystem”

  This organization could be operated in cooperation with an international Board and

 would be based on this philosophy:

  • The 4.6 billion years’ earth and 3.8 billion years’ life-stream has evolved a common sense, “to nourish, protect and love infants” in all living creatures.
  • The Homo sapiens was born in and from above the earth and life-stream history.Our human beings could be considered as “ bio-cultural species”, rooted to the animals’, life’s, Earth’s and cosmos history.
  • In order to live, every individual of us, human beings, have to eat ( take ) other living creatures whom evolved us. The every individual of human beings carries this “life-debt” on his/her back. Each individual has to consider how to return own ”life-debt” to the earth or living creatures in order to be fair to the univ ersal cord. 

3) < Action-“Return to the Earth for Free-Life・Debt!” >

 In order to act the meaning of human transcendence practically, each individual returns own ”life-debt” to the earth or living creatures in order to be fair to the universal cord. A kind of guide book and examples would be produced.

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" ,,, we might say, borrowing Keats's tender and compassionate line,"Many are poets that do not think it",that many are ecologists who do not think it and do not recognize it now. Nore are these two statements, one poetic and the other ecological, unrelated, for both have been true of man as a "thinking reed" in search of true metaphor through the millennia. Farmer or fisherman, hunter or natural scientist, poet or explorer, all have to read nature's behaviour ecologically, at different levels of organization and from a poetic viewpoint,in order to achieve a linguistic transformation of perception, an expression of mind's metaphorical relations with nature. That ecology requires a combination of aethetic perception and disciplined thinking- a characteristic of true poetry as well-"

“　The recognition of the value of true metaphor would seem to be the key to the journey, leading as it does to the ultimate meaning of human transcendence and to the understanding of our most precious tool, compassionate intelligence.”

Edith Cobb,” The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood”, 1977