eid ul adha, the commemoration of sacrfice. we get to watch islam being sacrficied on our tvs, in the media, in our minds, all around us. the spirituality that brought us peace, justice, love, has been under crucifixion for the past 40 years. bleeding...
sacrifice your mind to tune in to your heart.
this is the message: shhhhhhhhh...work from the inner-qibla.
say a prayer for syria, for iraq, for nigeria, for mali, for the ughers, the rohini's (muslims of burma under slaughter by the buddhist majority government), for iran, for palestine, for libya, for sudan, for eritrea, for somalia, for afghanistan, for native america, for black america, for el salvador, puerto rico, ayiti, for people under nucelar holocaust, for the ancient civilizations being decimated like mohawks and mohegans, and painted as the savages...
say a prayer. more importantly, make your purpose peace, real peace, the kind that requires doing, the kind that peter tosh reminds us has to do with justice, as: everyone keeps talking about peace peace peace, but we need justice, justice, justice...to do this requires sacrifice.
all praise is due to the One for this opportunity to Surrender.
look outside your window. flashing red and blue lights. a hundred cops in triple-bullet proof. desert storm weapons drawn, towards your home, where you reside with mama, poppa, wifey, hubbie, kids. perhaps by yourself.
you hear your first name and last name through a muffled bullhorn. get out of the house now! and surrender yourself!
exclamation, marks their speech. authority is their recitation. demand, control. judgement is their positionality. idols.
are you an idol worshipper? will you go out? i might, if my family was there, if i were to think of everyone else besides me. but i would never surrender.
the path of surrender reminds us that surrender is only reserved to the/for the/(and in the deeper realms) in the, ONE.
my hands are up, like abraham, like the sacrificial lamb, to truly Surrender (islam) to the One.
hands up and no cops kicking down my door. hands up and no stick up kid jutting a .44 to my kidney.
hands up, cause One, cause of losing self to gain Self, cause in the sacrifice of the seeming good life, is the Real life.
how are you sacrificing? are you ready to let go? what are you willing to part with?
my brother, one-who-knows-ALLAH, sent me a message from his spirit retreat in the mountains just over a week ago: the Essence, by way of pancha-mama, has sent me this message for you: move and work from the heart.
western science lives in the brain. work from there can only lead to books and knowledge. the wisdom of the teachings of the prophet muhammad mustafa salllalahu wallaihe wasalam, is to work from the heart to Know. real Knowledge is in the letting go, is in the sacrifice of what appears real, for the Real.
Real is within, in the heart. the heart is the qibla, the inner-compass that directs us towards the vibration of Harmony. the mind falls prey to thoughts that create emotions. the Heart feels without emotion. use this compass towards your every move - how you walk, talk, move, spend your time. every moment is an opportunity to worship, as the Purpose is to worship by way of your unique gifts, talents, purpose.
are you ready? lets do it together. tell you what, this is what i'm going to sacrifice...money, fear, control, being-right. how?
i am at the end of a cricumference in the academic portion chapter of my life, in advancing this path of traditional medicine man, by way of ayurveda-unani-yoga.
along the way of this path, i kept telling myself that it was a goal, and instead of working and growing in the present, i have been in dimly lit cafes studying, in lecture halls scribbling, in long walks imagining the end of this path towards the goal.
in growing deeper in this path, by way of bowing, by way of asana practice, it has become clear to me that the present isn't a speech on meditation. the sweat on my brows, leaking from ajana chakra and muladhara chakra, leading into kalari kicks and and adha-badha-pashimotonasana, all make it clear. the path is in the doing. do.
to do, sacrifice ego, sacrifice the fear of rejection, of attempting to control the outcome. the work is in the doing. practice. so this is what i have to say for myself. i will be the traditional medicine man by doing nutritional assessments. i will do this by creating a nutritional assessment form, setting up a sliding scale based clinic, offering follow ups, utilizing the knowledge i am gaining on herbs, and the science of food, to do my work. i will use my studies for practice, for as the tradition of the prophet makes clear, if the focus of study is un-aligned with your purpose/with your work, then it becomes useless.
to make knowledge useful, focus it on your purpose, use it towards your purpose.
sacrifice the ego. there is work to be done. mass migrations are occuring. indigenous ways being further extinguished, taker cultures appropriating and becoming the guards of the indigenous ways. do something by doing, by doing from Love, from Purpose. you know what to do.
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