Lately, I have openly expressed to my husband my desire to live in a country where religion and religious practices don’t dominate daily life. I get agitated by the volatile conditions in the country where the Chief Justice herself does not honor the decision of the Supreme Court. The Ombudsman doesn’t respect the decision of the Supreme Court either. What is wrong with these 2 women???? All because they both claim that moral issues are above the legal issues. This can’t happen in Singapore!!!!

And the CBCP of the Church does not respect the decision of the Supreme Court either.

Last Nov 6 over lunch to celebrate the Nov 10 birthday of my husband I had a most enjoyable time feeling affirmed by Tato Malay and a former student of my husband , Marito Platon.

This week I get assurances from some authors on Facebook.

I can stay here in the country and find strength in like-minded friends. Our daughter, now a British citizen inspires me with how she has adjusted to living according to her INNER SELF!

Yesterday, my masseuse comforted me with her expansive worldview. Her 10 yrs experience in South Korea taught me how to deal with my worries and agitations related to narrow religious beliefs.

I can’t believe how much I have allowed my religious past to limit me.
My wise husband repeatedly reminds me that I can live in another country BUT my baggage of RELIGION and RELIGIOUS issues will still be with me.

So I am left to IMAGINE!

Dr Christine Page wrote:
“Imagine how it would feel to walk your own path with confidence, fully conscious and without fear.”
“Imagine as in the Tibetan vocabulary, there was no word for guilt but only an appreciation that we are personally accountable for the consequences of our actions.”

The Hawaiian tradition held by their elders teach something similar to what Dr Page has written. But I know the Filipinos living in Hawaii live according to the western code.

Dr Page continued:
“Imagine if your thoughts, words and actions are not judged on the basis of someone else’s dictates and experiences but on your own sense as to whether they resonate with a deeper truth within.”

“This may sound too radical (this was written in the 90s)  but this is the way of the future, where personal and inner MORALITY (that of the Chief Justice, that of the Ombudsman, that of the CBCP, that of the CHR etc) guide the individual’s system not man-made rules fully appreciative that there is nothing we do, say or think that doesn’t affect someone else, somewhere and EVENTUALLY RETURN TO US.”