The only way to end corporate rule is through community subsistence and abandonment of industrial streams. We need to be free to pursue the right to choose to live off the land instead of having only the option of working for money. Money is for gold and other such extravagances, not the basic requirements for life. Until we accept and act upon this we will remain a class of disorganized slaves trying to change illusions by patronizing the problem.
We have come to this point because we participated in this contrived economy and became over-sophistocated. I don't suggest living in caves any more than I support widening roads or Mountain Top Removal. Progress at this point though is abandoning the sinking ship, not demanding control of the helm or say in which way we steer.
The economy is dead. We need more fresh water; more sustainable agriculture/permiculture so we can out live technology, not more opportunity be slaves to it's industry.
I respect this movement, if i didn't I wouldn't be contemplating its chances of fruition, much less paying any attention to it. However it is aimed in the wrong direction. I don't think you can call it "organic self-organizing" either for we are simply victims of circumstance. Many of these people have no choice or simply have nothing better to do. nonviolence is not a 9-5 occupation nor is it an weekend affair. Many only attend these protests on days off from work or school. It is good that they attend but there is more to a movement than getting noticed. This may be critical and harsh, but we must see things for what they are or we will continue to be victims. Those who live there, they misunderstand the dynamics of the dominating system. At some point they will have to turn on the "no spokes person" nobodies in charge mantra for they will be invited to speak to the gov't as a group of representatives (see Power Shift 2011).
Many are inspired by the masses that grow but a social movement needs directed at the roots of the multitude of issues; Gandhi marched for salt and King called for civil rights. Unless this movement simply wants to become bourgeoisie, it must break free from the ideology it stand opposed to. I say this only to emphasize the need to work towards something in an open and deliberate fashion, whether that be anarchy or other wise. What do I mean by this? Let us look at power shift 2011.
With out going into too many details, power shift was a event where young people where trained how to organize in a weekend convention. It focused on direct action and used the term nonviolence as if it was as simple as choosing which shirt to put on in the morining. The short of it is this: a handful of the organizers were invited to the white house. At that point they became a representative democracy as there was no consensus work done ad it was the voices of those who went to the white house that was heard what is the point? That is how this system works. At some point it was come to this- a handful of Occupy organizers will be asked to attend a high power meeting and in an instant everything they say they are, or, are not, will be erased.
If you want to start a social movement you must understand in theory, the fundamental objective of the art of conflict: deception. Ideological nonviolence of course does not deceive, but it does not ignore the governing dynamics of the situation it sets out to affect.
Open-mindedness does not mean everything is acceptable, much to the contrary. It is a honing of perception and an quickening of resolve. How many revolutions need we see in our history before we explore a different way? When will we allow for social evolution? This means on an ideological level for if our ideas are rooted in this structure the results of our efforts will simply be more of the same.
I understand, in theory at least, the nature of social control and the art of conflict: Deception. And to be clear, this is a movement about "what is right". when the White House opens to My respect is for this, it always has been. I include The Rivers and The Mountains and the myriad Life into this consideration. Corporations will never change this, it is not what they are designed to do.
7/21/11
Humility of Man
To what do we owe humility? Is a teacher humble to a student or the lesson? Is man to be humble to man, or to the sum? In the interested of personal growth I express my humility not to man, but to the sum of all that is; the ever expanding world perceived by all levels of being. In this physical world my humility is reserved for the rules, not the players. My love is limitless, but my humbleness is to serve all by allowing truth to shine bright in me. To the truth I am humble, not to opinion or contradictory law, or other things that are designed to belittle and deprive strength. I am not humble to the schools of thought that blindly wield knowledge, severing the connectedness of the community of life in the name of anthropocentric prosperity. I am not humble to the believers who condemn all as sinners and blacking out the light inside children, selling the mortal rites of discovery the God of Kings. I am not humble to spiritual depravity, bodily toxifaction and limitation of conscious.
I am humble to the life and light inside of all things. I am humble to discipline and the expressions of the energetic self. I am humble to the nameless sum that inspires all things, light and dark and to the balance that reaches from my breath to the beginning of the cosmos again, and again.
aloha, in the presence of the breath of life.
I am humble to the life and light inside of all things. I am humble to discipline and the expressions of the energetic self. I am humble to the nameless sum that inspires all things, light and dark and to the balance that reaches from my breath to the beginning of the cosmos again, and again.
aloha, in the presence of the breath of life.
I work now to inspire total health. In my evolution I am at the point where it is the individual's perception that must be healed. We must transcend the effects of fear, knowledge and ego to reach a open perspective.
As energy I have been directing sound for most of my life. the emotion of song can be conveyed to millions of people. Sound is emotion, it is energy. Intention can be conveyed through lyric, but it can come through in the sound as well. The simplest sound can have the most profound impact.
In my work, I still rely on the wild places to heal; expand the perspective. I have refined my meditation practice as well as the sound. I remove myself as much as I can from my work and seek to create an environment where individuals detach from ego to allow for the truer self; the energetic self to expand in the space opened up.
It is quite simple and in western medicine best expressed as "reducing swelling". Healthy egos are the beginning of perception.
As energy I have been directing sound for most of my life. the emotion of song can be conveyed to millions of people. Sound is emotion, it is energy. Intention can be conveyed through lyric, but it can come through in the sound as well. The simplest sound can have the most profound impact.
In my work, I still rely on the wild places to heal; expand the perspective. I have refined my meditation practice as well as the sound. I remove myself as much as I can from my work and seek to create an environment where individuals detach from ego to allow for the truer self; the energetic self to expand in the space opened up.
It is quite simple and in western medicine best expressed as "reducing swelling". Healthy egos are the beginning of perception.
observations
Letting go of the notion of individuality is where community lies. IT is by nature we are who we are, our egoic impressions and expressions matter not to our character- we are who we are, our beauty shines as natural as the sun, there is no need to exert ourselves. Disagreement would come from insecurity and fear, two things that are products of our knowledge-based, misinformed.
From grade school report cards to car and career choices we are bred to compare. We drawl lines to separate us from others and things we feel are not representative of the person we are. This is self-oppression. One who cares not for the ambient regard for their ego and simply does as they feel through a path of self discovery and study of connection between mind, body and soul in this world, will incite both disgust and inspiration on levels consummate to the purity they find. This is balance and can best be related to the garden, where the gardener who cultivates healthful food must pull "weeds".
We must not seek happiness for it is omnipresent. We must refine our sense of appreciation instead. What we chase "in the pursuit of happiness" is distraction from the whole of reality. One is no more entitled to happiness then they are to controlling the weather. All emotions equal health and to become fixated on anyone thing is to loose perspective on the most profound level.
There is inherent problem with knowledge; it will never be enough to over come ignorance. Knowledge is an abstraction of the totality of what is and therefore through knowledge one isnt even looking at the right picture. When emphasis is placed on knowledge, while at the same time nature, intuition and instinct are obscured and forgotten, a inner void is created. In the void something must balance out knowledge. To know is to be confident; secure. The balance is to not know and be fearful. The more we grow into a knowledge based culture the greater our fear of the unknown becomes. We can only transcend the affect of fear by transcending the desire for knowledge. Further, to experience emotions as knowledge, such as to "know" what makes you happy is to enslave yourself to the ego and deprive your total being access to the manifestation. This can be seen culturally in Art and entertainment, where works become products and inspiration becomes sales margins.
"It is what it is". A fool's wisdom. IT is what you make it and to accept the moment as a thing you are not part of; have no influence of is to miss the whole point entirely. We choose our beliefs and in this sense we choose between a world desitin to die where we are participants in the killing, or a world suffering from neglect and we are the ones to break the cycle and begin anew. Though I am not fond of the word "hope" or any other inert concepts, I would call upon those who hold it as a central component tho their belief, to place it on fundamental levels independent of any lines created by economy. Instead of hope I would like to use intention, that we would intend to do something, which after study and understanding, would bring about action more suited to change the situation to a beteer, or more natural dynamic.
How about this: Be the Change you wish to see in the world. But look deeper for we can not create a new world by building off of old foundations.
From grade school report cards to car and career choices we are bred to compare. We drawl lines to separate us from others and things we feel are not representative of the person we are. This is self-oppression. One who cares not for the ambient regard for their ego and simply does as they feel through a path of self discovery and study of connection between mind, body and soul in this world, will incite both disgust and inspiration on levels consummate to the purity they find. This is balance and can best be related to the garden, where the gardener who cultivates healthful food must pull "weeds".
We must not seek happiness for it is omnipresent. We must refine our sense of appreciation instead. What we chase "in the pursuit of happiness" is distraction from the whole of reality. One is no more entitled to happiness then they are to controlling the weather. All emotions equal health and to become fixated on anyone thing is to loose perspective on the most profound level.
There is inherent problem with knowledge; it will never be enough to over come ignorance. Knowledge is an abstraction of the totality of what is and therefore through knowledge one isnt even looking at the right picture. When emphasis is placed on knowledge, while at the same time nature, intuition and instinct are obscured and forgotten, a inner void is created. In the void something must balance out knowledge. To know is to be confident; secure. The balance is to not know and be fearful. The more we grow into a knowledge based culture the greater our fear of the unknown becomes. We can only transcend the affect of fear by transcending the desire for knowledge. Further, to experience emotions as knowledge, such as to "know" what makes you happy is to enslave yourself to the ego and deprive your total being access to the manifestation. This can be seen culturally in Art and entertainment, where works become products and inspiration becomes sales margins.
"It is what it is". A fool's wisdom. IT is what you make it and to accept the moment as a thing you are not part of; have no influence of is to miss the whole point entirely. We choose our beliefs and in this sense we choose between a world desitin to die where we are participants in the killing, or a world suffering from neglect and we are the ones to break the cycle and begin anew. Though I am not fond of the word "hope" or any other inert concepts, I would call upon those who hold it as a central component tho their belief, to place it on fundamental levels independent of any lines created by economy. Instead of hope I would like to use intention, that we would intend to do something, which after study and understanding, would bring about action more suited to change the situation to a beteer, or more natural dynamic.
How about this: Be the Change you wish to see in the world. But look deeper for we can not create a new world by building off of old foundations.
4/8/11
Wu Wei
"We must first learn how to climb mountains, but when we are ready to climb them we will know only our breath".
Flow oriented action, as natural as the movement of the trees in the wind. In a way, it is the definition of Taoism; Wu Wei. It is the same as "not doing" in Zen. It can be expressed in art form, adventure, and the simplest of activities such as washing dishes; it is a question of discipline. What is the difference between simple action and disciplined action? Ego.
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Flow oriented action, as natural as the movement of the trees in the wind. In a way, it is the definition of Taoism; Wu Wei. It is the same as "not doing" in Zen. It can be expressed in art form, adventure, and the simplest of activities such as washing dishes; it is a question of discipline. What is the difference between simple action and disciplined action? Ego.
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