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Lao Tzu says:
Harboring a resentment
is sure to leave some resentment behind.
How can that be good?
It cannot.
Therefore, the wise accept all responsibility.
Although those who hold the power
keep blaming and bleeding the people,
the violated Great Integrity blames no one.
Once achieving the Great Integrity,
we will function with a pure heart.
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There has been some bitter exchanges on account of the recent pronouncement by some leaders of Acoli that the reason for the failure of the LRA rebel leader, Joseph Kony, to meet them at Nabanga was the machination by some people that included Acoli in the Diaspora.
Growing up, the idea of owning up to my deeds was probably the single teaching that my old man gave me. Especially, he did not like the phrase, “ I don’t know.” To him it was ducking responsibility.
So, to these leaders; how Kony got his advice not to cooperate is irrelevant in your responsibility to secure his signature. Your responsibility is to use all your faculties to persuade him—even if it means sending emissaries to his “advisors” to help weigh in on him. To blame others for your failure is a testament that you lack ability, and should come out and say it and, if necessary, pass the baton to others.
Lao Tzu says:
Nothing in the world
is softer and weaker than water.
Yet there is nothing better
for subduing all that is harder and stronger.
Everyone observes
how weak overcomes strong,
how gentleness overcomes rigidity.
Yet, this principle is seldom
put into conscious practice.
Though some may say it is useless,
to accept responsibility
for the calamities and toxicity of the world,
taking such responsibility
might put us on the road
to the Great Integrity.
Just remember the truth
often masquerades as falsity,
And falsity as truth.
Harboring a resentment
is sure to leave some resentment behind.
How can that be good?
It cannot.
Therefore, the wise accept all responsibility.
Although those who hold the power
keep blaming and bleeding the people,
the violated Great Integrity blames no one.
Once achieving the Great Integrity,
we will function with a pure heart.
--------------------
There has been some bitter exchanges on account of the recent pronouncement by some leaders of Acoli that the reason for the failure of the LRA rebel leader, Joseph Kony, to meet them at Nabanga was the machination by some people that included Acoli in the Diaspora.
Growing up, the idea of owning up to my deeds was probably the single teaching that my old man gave me. Especially, he did not like the phrase, “ I don’t know.” To him it was ducking responsibility.
So, to these leaders; how Kony got his advice not to cooperate is irrelevant in your responsibility to secure his signature. Your responsibility is to use all your faculties to persuade him—even if it means sending emissaries to his “advisors” to help weigh in on him. To blame others for your failure is a testament that you lack ability, and should come out and say it and, if necessary, pass the baton to others.
Lao Tzu says:
Nothing in the world
is softer and weaker than water.
Yet there is nothing better
for subduing all that is harder and stronger.
Everyone observes
how weak overcomes strong,
how gentleness overcomes rigidity.
Yet, this principle is seldom
put into conscious practice.
Though some may say it is useless,
to accept responsibility
for the calamities and toxicity of the world,
taking such responsibility
might put us on the road
to the Great Integrity.
Just remember the truth
often masquerades as falsity,
And falsity as truth.
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