Home or Heaven
(Accueil ou Heaven)
If you have the wife and children, they connect you to this material world; thus you cannot achieve enlightenment the Buddha achieved.
If you have a house, it connects you to this material world; thus you cannot achieve enlightenment the Buddha achieved.
If you have earnings, they connect you to this material world; thus you cannot achieve enlightenment the Buddha achieved.
Truly, Jesus Christ said that a happy man does not need God.
Without doubt, such a happy man must become a homeless in Heaven even if so admitted as more than deserved.
SECTION I: Japan’s Former Premier and Homeless
It is former Prime Minister Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi that has been enjoying the most popularity in the Japanese society as a politician.
But he is also the most attacked and abhorred conservative politician by liberals as well as other conservatives who have had a strong tie with North Korea (and China) due to big money ethnic North Korean residents in Japan could provide for them.
Recently Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi addressed an assembly of supporters for one of LDP lawmakers, referring to a law that is intended to help self-help of homeless people in Japan, the number of whom is estimated to be roughly 20,000.
It is Mr. Koizumi’s administration that this homeless-helping law was passed several years ago in the Japanese Parliament, which however has been criticized by some liberals as a bad law restricting freedom of homeless by putting them in a shelter with too many rules and treating them with a manner harming their dignity.
Yet, the former Prime Minister pointed at the law in his address as an example that the Government is not simply neglecting the poor, though liberal critics often cast a blame for an increasing gap between the rich and the poor on Mr. Koizumi’ s policy introducing the law of jungles of the American market into the Japanese economy.
“When homeless people tired of living on the street begin to think that it was time for them to live under a roof, eat meals three times a day, and soak in a bath, our Government can offer suitable facilities to them at any prefecture in Japan.
Also, people released from a prison should be taken care of until they can help-support themselves. I am now recommending Prime Minister Mr. Yasuo Fukuda to take into consideration the introduction of such a post-prison care system…,” said Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi in a lecture meeting held to boost popularity of one of his favorite female lawmakers (an ex-Ministry-of-Finance executive), which is one of rare occasions that the general public sees him since his leave from the premiership in 2006, though an admission fee to the venue was reportedly 10,000 yen (100 dollars).
( http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/katayamasathuki2007/5576838.html#5614081 )
SECTION II: Hiroshima Homeless
Hiroshima is a Japanese city that suffered a US nuclear bomb attack in the summer of 1945 at the end of WWII.
Hiroshima is also well known as a city having suffered fierce antagonism and duels between gangsters after WWII, which was once a common theme of Japanese entertainment films.
Hiroshima is also a home ground of Mazda Motor Corporation, associated with US Ford, and a professional baseball team “Hiroshima Carp.”
Yet, everybody in Hiroshima City, where about 130 people are reportedly living a homeless life among 1.2 million ordinary citizens, today knows one prominent homeless man called “Hiroshima Taro.”
The homeless, Hiroshima Taro, has been in a state of homelessness for 35 years since he was 25.
When a young man from Tokyo was conducting a personal interview with Hiroshima Taro on the street of Hiroshima City, a puller-in for a shady boite or the like in black handed him a 500-yen (five-dollar) coin, saying, “I like to give 500 yen to you, man.” Mr. Taro Hiroshima, the notable homeless in Hiroshima, accepted the big coin, saying dryly, “Thank you, man.”
After the interview in which he especially gave a warning to the young man from Tokyo on a possibility of the eruption of Mt. Fuji that could destroy Tokyo, Hiroshima Taro got on his bicycle equipped with 11 small baskets, into one of which he put a cat looking hungry, and left the young man watching a yellow mantle on the back of the old bicycle rider melting into darkness of a night in the big modern city Hiroshima, Japan, in this winter of 2008.
( http://yukuri.exblog.jp/ )
I honestly hope that Mr. Taro Hiroshima becomes a national lawmaker someday, if the God allows one holy miracle in Hiroshima.
SECTION III: US Reconnecting Homeless Youth Act
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The facts are astounding and devastating. As many as 3 million minors experience disconnection. Some of them are born homeless, but most run away to escape mental, emotional or physical abuse. More than a third of them — roughly a million children — are victims of sexual abuse in the home. A third of them attempt suicide. For these young people hope is a distant concept, and the future is little more than a dead end.
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Our top priority was guaranteeing the organizations that work for disconnected youth have the full funding they need, because they already work to provide the tools kids need to reconnect — Safe Place has reached more than 100,000 children in my home state of Kentucky alone. The bill more than doubles RHYA funding to $200 million per year, to ensure that the resources are in place for community-serving organizations to reach every kid in need…
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http://thehill.com/op-eds/we-must-pass-the-reconnecting-homeless-youth-act-2008-02-04.html
Also you should notice that actually two million people have suffered foreclosure in the U.S., as I once estimated. And if one of ten families is faced with this tragedy of losing their homes, the military and economic super-power America will soon have 200,000 plus new homeless people.
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After nearly a year and a half of turmoil, over 2 million homes foreclosed upon, and the worst financial crisis to hit the world since the Great Depression, I would like to applaud the Bush administration for finally realizing that there is truly something wrong with our nation’s financial services regulatory structure. For far too long this administration has allowed Wall Street to pursue the politics of greed, the true cost of which we can now see in the form of devastated communities, homeless families, and shattered neighborhoods…
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http://blog.thehill.com/2008/03/31/not-just-a-credit-crisis-rep-keith-ellison/#more-5701
So, homeless and foreclosed people must march into Wall Street at the onset of the US Religious Revolution.
SECTION IV: Homeless World Cup
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Afghanistan's first Homeless World Cup team, organised by SDF, is made up of homeless people and orphans, the most deprived sectors of Afghan society. Rumour has it that they are excellent on the pitch and are even contenders for the Homeless World Cup Trophy.
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http://www.homelessworldcup.org/content/afghanistan
I found it interesting that Mr. Ringo Starr, an ex-Beatle, is one of supporters for this movement which seems to have been originated in Scotland which had better get independence from England like Tibet from China, if I may say so.
(I don’t think that Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Rocky Balboa and Mr. Obama is an Apollo Creed.
However, the rivalry between “Hillary” and “Obama” must be regarded as one of Civil Wars in the U.S.
“Obama” from Chicago leads the Union Army and “Hillary” from a southern state leads Confederate Forces.
And, of course, everything will be gone for one of the two with wind this summer at the latest.
Yet, until the last homeless man is saved, the holy campaign in America must continue.
So, keep on presiding at whatever is entrusted to you if not in US Congress or the Japanese Diet, since the audience is large.)
