Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hope. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 08, 2016

Sitting

Sometimes I sit and think
Sometimes I sit and pray
Sometimes I just sit and watch
(But mostly I don't sit at all! Mostly I rush around like a frantic machination of expectant fury and distraction)
Sometimes my eyes and my mind are struck by a thing of beauty
Some.... Something... Grand! or Some Thing small.
Creation speaks.

Contemplating world events, Global warming, Earth systems under pressure, fresh water lost!
Spirits ignited into action at Standing Rock Sioux Reservation
The forces piled against truth met with the power of life!
Spirits ignited!

A call to action.

My mind glides across all these issues and conflicting emotions and responsibilities collide within me In my heart there is a constant drum beating! Find the dhukar! Find the right path! Act!

All this is going on as I work and eat and commute to work and try to be present with my family, constant thoughts of What I should do, where I should be??? 
Then, when my mind and spirit were at their most confused, depressed and disillusioned by the sham of politics and all that STUFF!, while riding to work one morning I sensed something large. I stopped and looked up and saw the most unusually tall and completely red Poinciana.



I stopped, got off my bike, I breathed deeply in and let all the air out of my lungs and I said a prayer of thanks. The answers will come.

Tuesday, May 03, 2016

About Hope

(To those who would crush dreams)
I don't believe there is such a thing as 'False Hope'
There is a state of being hopeful
and there is a hopeless state.
To hold on to hope can mean the difference between striving to live and giving up on the most basic natural instinct of all living things.
Hope is by definition, not dependent on empirical certainty
It is staking one's future on the chance that the possibility of a future may exist, despite the odds!
For a human hope can be the irrational thread which permits us to go on living when the odds say we must perish.
This is not 'false' but the truest calling!
"Life's longing for itself" is the hope that life is possible.
To be without hope crushes the spirit and destroys that sacred seed planted in all living things.
The WILL TO LIVE! With out the will to live we are indeed in a Hopeless state! 


If the leaders of a Government responsible for the care of refugees see fit to snatch hope from those people's hearts; then have the audacity to accuse those who offer comfort or care for Asylum Seekers on Nauru of being responsible for their despair by offering 'false hope' then they are fools and have no business in the lives of others. 


This is Australia! God Help us!

Thursday, May 08, 2014

What is?


Listening to Jed McKenna again, again, and here's the pressing statement that seems to pop up continuously in my life like a slap in the face to remind me I waste my days in Maya.

The darling and beautiful Maya... Who would ever want to look the other way? (with thanks)
 Here's the words from the beginning of tape 3 (Spiritual Enlightenment the damnedest thing)


“Truth exists my mind was shrieking, it doesn’t matter what it is or where it is. Somewhere somehow there is truth. I don’t care if it’s in Christianity or Judaism or Islam or the most despised cult in the deepest bowels of depravity. It exists and I will not spend another minute of my life flailing blindly around in the filth or miasma of the universe for any other reason than to find it.
The universe isn’t vague and ignorant, I am vague and ignorant.
Something is true and it doesn’t matter what it is. I am not going to be false any more. I have not even the slightest trace of the slightest reservation about the fact that I would rather suffer and die figuring out what is true than continue this life as a slave to lies and ignorance” 


Whew! Oh Yeh! What got this ball rolling again? Surrounded by lies, myth, deluded rationalization if only I could shut my eyes and enjoy the luxury of being white and living in a wealthy comfortable country. Damn!

What got me listening to that damned fool... so called Jed McKenna (a myth himself) Oh yeh that's right! I had to go and watch Apocalypse Now, again, again! 
Frustrated by dealings with politicians, hypocritical religios, business magnates, sellout, money grubbers and wasters of life and limb I felt compelled to watch that film again!

And 

Captain Willard said:

 "...It's a way we had over here of living with ourselves. We cut 'em in half with a machine gun and give 'em a Band-Aid. It was a lie. And the more I saw them, the more I hated lies."


And Walter E. Kurtz said:

"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene."
"...And if I were to be killed, Willard, I would want someone to go to my home and tell my son everything. Everything I did, everything you saw, because there's nothing that I detest more than the stench of lies. And if you understand me, Willard, you will do this for me." 
And I got a glimpse, through a crack in the curtains, of truth; and Maya whispered in my ear... "Don't look there dear there's nothing for you in that, come back to me, be comfortable and in peace, don't trouble yourself with the lines that flicker across the screen, enjoy the show and relax."....


 But still the babies are crying and imprisoned in gulags on sinking islands in the pacific
Painting of " Ghulam Sakhi Hazara " Hazara artist .


Still the ancient burial grounds and remnant sanctuaries of green are bulldozed while politicians announce "Oh the cleverness of ME!"

The destruction of land preserved for conservation back in the 70s. Who knows what fate the graves

Hard fought for but easily lost (Land set aside for conservation and recognized site of a burial ground)



And still the oil companies fracture and poison the sacred ground under our feet
http://www.ecnt.org/campaigns/dont-frack-territory

Oh Maya darling... Morpheus if you were to offer me the blue pill now how tempted I would be!