Tuesday, December 26, 2017

winter solstice 2017


...blessed new year...blessed completion of another revolution...around the sun...earth around the sun...she around he....man woman child...the holy ankh...It was Written...dna...genetics...actg...the codons spiraling around each other in a double helix, replicated by rna and conveyed into protein...the structure of existence... through messengers that execute scripture...you are living Scripture...the holy book...the Quran, torah, bible, vedas, tipitaka, pyramid texts...

...you already Know...as without so within....everything that exists in the universe exists within you...and what is in the cosmos is a reflection of you...a mirror King/Queen...I see You...

...this winter solstice...during this period of death...of three days of coffin...of being in dark...reach for the light within...the Light that Lights...where is that for you?...what is that for You?...what are the gifts you were given, the ones that are your medium to convey the Essence?...how have you honed it?...how are you sharing it...?...I'm learning that sharing your gift is essential to honing it...In the exchange with others, you are growing deeper with it...

...put aside the fear...put aside the ego...If your goal is to develop a name for yourself...to seek glory...know that Glory belongs to ALLAH alone...thus your goal, your Purpose is inextricably tied to the condition of all beings (more than just hue-man)...

...written in your dna is the story...the gift...

...this year i devote to Surrendering to the Source of Peace in the self Love kit...the collaboration on this...the coalescence of a life's work in writing as therapy, as meditation, with connections with the earth through herbs, food, with connections with the planets through movement...with connections with each other...through courses...community...

...life is about each year growing in your ability to better sustain a state of being 'turned on'....

Saturday, December 2, 2017

...leave yourself...


...who you think you are...who you have carefully constructed...who has been carefully molded by the invisible hands of man...leave this person you think you are...and travel as far as china...travel and find yourself...leave...quietly...now...do it now...

...Quietness...in Quiet i've heard...the answer lies in Quiet...the letting go...wrote yesterday, posted...and here i am again...what happened to me typing yesterday...hitting backspace when i made a flagrant spelling error...? where is that person...? where is that moment? what about the moment when i started this, minutes ago...when i read rumi poems...when i was at my boy's place earlier, in the country, watching him build a house...discarding waste from his jars...wondering if my hands were going to freeze off...and if they did...if they did, i would feel it now...so i used caution...i worked smartly...took pauses...just i wasn't as smart in ingesting earlier, and am now feeling a bit queasy...even as a i fast...even as i continue this tradition of revering the moon...

...what is it that constructs your identity? that others expect of you? that you've come to expect of yourself? are you a lover of music...of consuming massive amounts of music?...what if you were someone who listened as music came up, but didn't seek it out...?...are you attached to a certain style of clothing...?...what would happen if you dressed differently?...what would happen if your dress were baggy if it is currently tight...?... are you invested in how you are perceived...? what if your movement weren't from audience but from a devotional vinyasa to One - drink when thirsty...move, when body requires...peace out when sleep calls...?...

...do you hold grduges...? what if you let go of them...?...what if you sought to understand?...what if you were transparent all the time instead of holding on to your pride...?...

...let go of who you think you are for who You Are...

Friday, December 1, 2017

full moon dec 2017


...this is it...the conclusion of full moons in 2017...the past few full moons have been powerful in what they are reflecting for me...a sense of non-reality...a sense of drown...like going through water, like leaving footprints on sand...

...the last full moon, my intention was to focus on results, to look at and work towards the results i want to see...not sure i've done that...instead...over the course of the past couple weeks, after returning to nyc for the holiday...i got to thinking more of Higher Frequency...and this has led me to cutting out, or to a minimum babylon music, of eating more Higher Frequency foods, avoiding those foods that keep me in a state of low, of tamas...listening to Higher Frequency music, like midnite and nusrat...and classical kurdish music, and pali chants laying down dharma...

...also...been watching my thoughts and have been noticing the sense of separation, of how the greater the attempt to be different, to be other than You, to see flaw in you, to judge you for the way you look, your age, your style of speech, your economics, your opinions...that every time my thoughts judge...i grow deeper in a well of pain....and it makes sense...because we Are One...and when we separate and the greater separation we seek...we grow more apart from the One-ness...

...how do you get past the hump of you, of getting past your sense of difference?...of your sense of you as separate...by delving deeper in your pain and embracing it, creating from it, making art that comes out for from this...thinking about my mom and how she creates elaborate meals and feeds people, and how abbu did this with his writing, and continues to make art through his activism and take the pain of being hurt by the babylon systems and finding roads to/for peace...in community...in coming together with others...

...all praise is due for these mathematicians for laying out the laws for me...

...so this month i grow deeper in Higher Frequency...in Self...in embracing the pain, in hugging it, in exposing it, in letting go of it...this month i become Higher Frequency through unconitional Love...through giving, through declutter...through  non-audience...through embracing You in ALL...

Thursday, November 30, 2017

look at the I


...all praise is due...to Al Salam - the Source of Peace...the King of Kings, Queen of Queens, the One-ness that embodies all, encompasses ALL...the I in the i...the ShahanShah...all praise is due...

...grow deeper in my Quiet...in between the space of rejections...the Gift...what you were before was no gift at all...was only your desire to shoot up, to get cracked out...that's that crack...high until you have to come down and then your singing life's a bitch...hurt, sad, and wanting to get high again...going for the next fix...

...this time the sensory fix happens at the chinese food spot, with general tso's chicken and: extra duck sauce on that, and let me get some mofo hot sauce...dudes with voices like .38 specials say, assault the workers with...deriding the people that are making their food...deep...and this brings some temporary high...some quick lift from feeling a sense of power, like trying to control a woman's movement...what she should wear, how she should wear her hair, who she should be hanging out with, what she should be doing with her time...

control is a killer...the number one killer because it is tied to the number one killer - ego...

...remember...you are a person of Soul...the greatest accomplishment of colonialism and the babylon system of white-brown-black-yellow power abuses throughout history (yup - i said it - no romantic delusions of a righteous race of people - deep cause your race-obsession keeps you from Soul - in a place of romanticizing and excusing abuses of people who fit your boxes of victim and oppressor, because you go by notions of boxes - falsehoods) - has been to get you to buy into your costume, the uniform - to look at the surface - get gold and nice shoes, make up and shape ups, more time spent at the mall and barber shops then in meditation and prayer, then in cooking and growing your foods...babylon...

...look towards the One...look because ALLAH is the Ultimate Truth...

...everyone around you will pass...the ones you are vibing with, the one's you feel are your closest homies, the ones you got high off your head with last night...gone...disappoint you, let you down...keep you in a state of wondering why...how could those who bring me so much happiness bring me so much hurt?...

...the question applies to every part of life...what brings you High will bring you down...what brings you happiness will bring you depression and sadness and hurt and grief...if its based on babylon happiness...

...greens, green juices...veggies are deeper happy...they grow your ecosystem to root in the cosmos...so eat greens...veggies...according to the season...flesh is poison...avoid it...all of it...go vegan...if you can...depending on where you live and your body type...but if you can...get out of the babylon system of cut-throatism...whatever we do to other beings...we are and will be doing to ourselves...we are cutting throats of cows and sheep...why wouldn't we do this to ourselves...?...

...grow deeper in the vibration of One, through meditation, yogic breath, asana inversions and flow, asana in daily postures of sitting, walking, interactions in tree and eagle and camel...

...through Realness music...the music of Soul...found in indigenous folk music all over the globe...from bengal to ethiopia to jamaica to mohawk country...

...vibrations carry forth through music, food, beverages, art, movement, interaction with the seasons...

...yogum is the path of Truth...is the way of Being...it keeps prayers in my beads, held behind my back like my grandfather the medicine man...because of whom i Am...

...Higher Frequency is in the environment...in nature...in the forests...spend time there...

...offer prayers to lower frequencies and keep your time in these spaces minimum...and this might be keeping your mantras and breath in Frequency when you are in those spaces...because you may be on the inside...you are in the realm of babylon and these spaces abound...and they may are only reflections of One-ness, in a lower frequency...

...keep it Quiet...go deeper...maintain Frequency through code - yama, niyama, asana, pranayama, pratyahara, dharana dhyna, samadhi...keep in alignment with dharma as you grow deeper as unconditional Lover...


Wednesday, November 29, 2017

the Gift in the seeming rejection when You let go and let One...


...this guy asked me if i wanted to fight...said i was a b*&h n*&ga,,,looked at me, pulled his arm back...i looked at him as i walked past him, responded the way i do to offerings for other things that might assault my body - namely drugs...

...no, i'm good brother, i said...and kept walking...said this after watching his movement...after seeing how he was following the woman in front of me...of how he was walking after her after making comments that she tried to ignore, she pulled out her phone, the light of her phone blaring like red and blue flashes in the dark 8pm...

...f u bi&*h he repeated and then walked in the same direction as me...i witnessed this from a block away...as they were walking in the same direction as me...and, upon rejection, he walked in my direction...he might've been drunk, or drugged up, or just angry, just at the end...hh proceeded to harass everyone who walked behind me, a young white woman, and another man, who i didn't catch a glimpse of...

...i got it...understood...felt his approach and attitude were destructive and inappropriate and unacceptable and inexcusable...and shouldn't go with impunity...and i don't mean the criminal injustice system...but in a more just system, some form of ass-whopping followed by some sort of restoration, of reconciliation, and opportunities to address the deeper issues, the roots that have led to this desperate action...

...i got it...felt him...know that he is me...that he is the me that is desperate, that is over it, that is done with the rejections, the closed doors, the one who has expectations, that seeks sensory responses that are pleasant, words for this ego that match with my aspirations for sensual gain in chocolate, jobs, friends, women...and when it's missing...when i get the opposite of what i wanted, when my wants for a pleasant response aren't met, then this ego gets disturbed, gets hurt, spins into a whirl of sorrow...self-pity, self-hatred grounded in childhood, in believing the words, the sounds, the sights, the fists of rejection...f u too then...the reaction...the reaction based on ego reacting to ego...

...the ego gets in the way of that which Is...that which Is, is Truth...it is that everything passes...that you can choose to engage with this gnosis or to forget and be stuck, in a state of attachment, of trying to hold on to that which is fleeting...

...f u then...fight me then...the search for an end, for 6 feet in soil, for moksha from the body...happens in the path of ego through utter nihilism...life is guaranteed to disappoint if you are operating from expectation, from the search for pleasant responses, from the search for others to nod and agree, and approve, and thumbs up, and salivate, and express interest, and gifts, and offerings, and desire...disappointment is guaranteed in the sensory world of ego, because everything changes - the skin that you received so much compliment for becomes flaccid, folds in, causes cobwebs...the movement that you may be celebrated for change in an instance, from the slightest injury...and the applause diminish...the sex appeal, gone...the fame transient...the friends engaged in individual aspirations...the person who shows you mad love shows you nothing but ice and daggers...it happens...and the streets take this as you can't trust no one...but that's the trajectory of nihilism...in the Real world...you operate with the understanding that everything is changeable, and no guarantees, and that the default is Love...and see things as a witness...with pure Love...and operate from honesty...without reaction, but Truth...without disappointment, but embrace of the opportunity pregnant in the challenge, in the reaction...without seeing the rejection as a closed door, but to consider what other doors have opened as a result...

...for me...the doors of rejection have opened the doors of greater opportunity for dialogue, for honesty, for seeing how it creates opportunities in my path, of practicing unconditional Love...of practicing non-attachment...of being in the seat of Witness...of seeing the gift of letting go...

...thus, young...at every moment of what this ego seeks and does not get...Watch...and be thankful, be Love...and consider the opportunity...and see it within a spectrum...you got chocolate yesterday...and today...you want it all over again...wow...this is a pattern...i am seeking a reward...what am i avoiding...?...what does the chocolate covering up?...what could i be doing instead...?...all praise is due...for the opportunity...embrace the seeming wound...it allows for the insatiable ego to be exposes and the Truth to be a step Closer....

Sunday, November 26, 2017

get it out


...roots rocking till i leave this body, leave this room after being glued to the sheets that crepe into a bed...till i am bowing down, recalling Surrender, recalling to Quiet...to lub dub...and then hands out, in beg, in a state of asking...and today, like many other days...i am asking for meaning...if what i say, more often than not, is that this is not real, and if we are all One, and part of the One-ness, and that if, as without, so within, and everything in the universe is in us and all in us is in the universe, and naturally, then, it follows that every one has a piece of us inside them, just as we have varying degrees of panchamahbootas in us, and yet, and still, why are we only attracted to some, and repelled by others, or less interested in many, or disinterested...?...why am i not with the people who make me laugh, and bring me joy, and even when they bring me pain, maintain accountability, stay tied...?...what would it mean to drop everything else and be around them, all the time...figure out work and subsistence in a way that only draws us closer...and i get that this might've been a dream of my folks, and that i didn't get it...till now...till the clock got imploded with whispers of the end being close...and if so many people, if so many of us, on a daily basis, have thoughts of considering an end to this, of hoping for a flatline, then why wouldn't that translate to working for what you believe in like your very life were dependent on it, meaning that doing this work of Purpose could leave you close to the end...?...and not only is it alright, but it is more than alright, because it will leave you working towards that which is most important in this journey - living a fearless life of Surrender to the One, by being a servant to the Creation - all beings - trees, rivers, people, marine life, land life, air life....work like it were the bus rushing at you, instead of crossing the street hoping the bus were coming at you...work...insert yourself...work...do it now...Quietly...and it happens in every interaction, every moment...the work...

...i am no one's boyfriend, and a friend to some...and a mystery to many, including myself...a work of jumbled writings that tell tales of a new york only known through the hybrdization of vedic mantra and rapid fire rappers intifada-ing with rikers close...rikers is always close...a stretch of land jutting into the east river from the park i stood in through decades, without proximity or love...so it's a love and loathing, a serenity and a despair that comes over me, when i hear the tales of friend groups, of deep forever connections, of reunions, of the cookouts...what is that like...how beautiful is that...how come i never had that?...

...unconditional love requires a surrender...a letting go in a trust...in working from within...with results that look similar to the babylon results...i learned this in writing...in seeing how-to books on writing and seeing how the babylon authors would employ and suggest employing multi-step processes that came to me through the path of ALLAH...the results looked similar...

...moving from Essence leaves me in a state of clarity, of lack of performance, of Peace, confidence, Love, Lover, Breath, Infinite, possibility...without pride or ego, or fear...in a state of all praise is due...of Connection, of Salat...dua for Salat...




Sunday, November 19, 2017

...the life...


...bullets are often close when i walk...these days...perhaps it's hearing what's happening half a planet away...perhaps it's the sound of needles threading the veins of the people i pass on state street, here in ithaca; perhaps it's knowing, getting how serious this nihilism is after the recent death of a known to heroin...the overdose being an arms length away...the shoot being necessary to this stage, the right clothes, the right words, the right performance...

...by any means necessary...what are the means...?... i keep learning that it's other people, and at once, learning to not expect, to hold no expectations...to count on to not count on...

...all praise is duing, even as i wonder whether what lurks in the dark, what the possible outcomes are, and looking to the cloud packed skies for answers...wondering if i shoot the dice that i put down, that i stopped rolling...

...oh no...heroin...overdose...the game...an allure to the bottom...going down...a race to the bottom...running south...to the end...where the period is...even though there are only ellipses...

...peace...i have heard...experienced the peace...the Source of Peace in the bow...in going down...in putting my head down...sinking in Surrender...

...glimpses of possibility...of what can be...of scavenging through the self help section for answers, forgetting that scripture is right there, forgetting that it was written, that i Know...that You Know...we all do...but separation...

...perpetually putting up walls, perpetually burying the past...passive about it...witnessing the metaphorical death of friendships, and nodding, letting go...going through the swivel door, and coming out on another side...

...the only truth is change...the only fixed is that which is Always...amma, abba, cb, bb...loved ones, those who Love...who give unconditionally...nothing to rationalized...nothing to prove to you...nothing to convince you of...do you king...queen...who you are is beautiful...

...doing me...i'm realizing...is deep surgery...is internal...is a deep internal process...so...it's not you...can't do anything about you...can't hold on...can't make you stay...can't make you want to do what i might think is normal is nice, is...there is no normal...

...missed some prayers today...missed the main one, the one i do everyday, or most days...the blare of words of thoughts like yells, like 1980's stickball and punchball, like the handball courts and crack fields on the roof, the jumpings and the racial epithets, the branded jeans and the sneakers that prove your worth have strangled my brain...laced like lines of coke...sniffing it...breathing pranayama to the self-constructed opiates...this addiction to the fall...the pennies with holes in it...the toast heating my waist even as i pray for peace...

...can't change anyone...can't...even if i tried...even if you tried...let go...letting go for peace...for peace...can't expect you to honor me...but i can honor you...can't expect you to be giving...but i can be...can't expect you to be positive, see the possibility, the potential...but i can shape this paradigm i occupy...the movement, the thoughts, the actions of this body...they are informed by the witness...the You...the Source energy....if only...let go and let God...let go and let One-ness...let go and dive...Surrender...

...i took the dive and grabbed on to a branch from a jutting tree, fearing the fall, fearing what might happen, fearing the loss, not wanting to let go...

...but what if...what if...what if pure-Love...what if no scarcity...what if Infinite...what if...

...what does it mean to flow?...to be unobstructed...to be without walls, boundaries...to be in a state of movement...from one to another...to be in a series of lined up...anchors to aspire towards...to struggle towards - family, loved ones...the principle guiding this...reach...go in and reach out...

...leave in peace...come in peace...walk in peace...walk in beauty...turn the heartache into the boquet it is...listen for the opportunity...thank the challenge...that the defeats and the seeming overwhelm and pain for the teachers they are...embrace and flow...the pain will get you there...








Sunday, November 12, 2017

...my sweet Lord...


...my sweet Lord...i really wanna see You...really wanna be with You...but it takes so long...rocking out to george harrison...it resonates - wanting to Know You, wanting to go with You...more than end-life scenario...end-ego scenario...giving Love, unconditional...pure...peace...Love...

...results...the results i want to see is being in a state of unconditional Love...

...for me...the practices that bring me here are asana practice alone and in meaningful community, like at sis' crib last night...where she had a few folk over for her 30th n led an asana sequence, followed by meditation and chanting...

...results for me happen through flow...having things lined up that i am struggling towards...for...like the workshop i did today...put in time...lots of it...especially yesterday n today, cause i do things last minute...so having things lined up requires this type of movement...so perhaps courses on meditation, yoga, cooking, and setting stage for next part in life...

...results that work, through meditation...my asana practice is stronger than the ashtanga, the other limbs...so meditate...i have time for it...

...results that work is cooking, and brushing/flossing after every meal...is writing, getting it down...is working with urgency...is giving Love...when i am being Loving...i want to be Loving all the time...i want to see right into You...

...results that work, based on the above, is focusing wholly on one thing...like this workshop, with an audience i need to get it to...making medicine for others, cooking for others, doing a workshop for others, teaching yoga for others...i am naturally prone to being in service, in deep desire of connection, connecting with You...

...so...the what i want...the what i want is self-Love, and that happens through Self-Love...and the self-Love requires the asana, and cooking, and dental care, and meditation, and naturally bleeds into Self-Love, in which i Am doing for You, supporting You...being vulnerable, through honesty, transparency...

...Surrender...that being the end...and the end being the journey...every step of the way, because there is no end goal...because this is the end...no guarantees...rest in peace to all of your loved ones who have moved on to the other realm...we will all be there soon...so whats the fuss, the point of trying to control anything, anyone...all you can do is Love You, and you will be in Yuj...ah...this is the greatest asana sequence...the greatest aha moment i Am having today - is to develop an asana of unconditional Love, that is practiced throughout the day...

...asana sequence of unconditional Love: gratitude, in words, in Quiet, thanking in my head - for arms, legs, for health, for family, for you, for You...asana to take joy in the joy of others, to transform moments of judgement into vulnerability, gratitude...what else?....


Saturday, November 4, 2017

full moon november 2017



...results...do the same thing and get the same results...and then wonder...where'd i go wrong?...get the same feeling - man, this sucks...what can be different? what do you need to do to make it different?..what are you hoping for...?...what are you getting instead?...

...if you fail to plan, you plan to fail...my brother told me, a decade ago, on a subway ride from queens to brooklyn...word, i said...makes sense...10 years later...

...the plan is based on the results, this time, this full moon...instead of doing it the same...instead of running around in circles...instead of being a chicken without a head...

...i want community...but am i being community?...i want you to call, check in, holler...but am i doing any of these things...?...i want the health of my folks to be optimal, to be in flow, to increase their capacity to Love...but am i supporting this?...how do i expect their health to be good, when i am not actively supporting their health, and instead focusing solely on mine...?...

...results...the results are friday and saturday...sundays and evenings are consumed in community...that every day is consumed in work, in meaningful work...in being part of a team...in collaboration...in working together...towards something...compromise...to lost control...to have less...to let go...to be One with One...to be a contributor, to have exchange, meaningful ones, with Life - people, animals, trees, environment...

...if i'm looking for folk to show up...how am i showing up for others...?...in moments like this, when i write it down...i get that feeling of urgency, and act...and then forget...

...results - people seeking out my support...me supporting them...in a deep n meaningful way...beyond money...in a way that supports their recovery...in a way that builds them up to be able to support to love to give, to run and fly and be in a state of flow, to be accountable, to forge accountable relationships...to give to be, to love, to hang...

...instead of sitting with this...with gnosis...with this able-body, to support...want to work with urgency, with Love...unconditional...

..the result is Lover, around the clock...giving...initiating...working...taking steps...listening...doing from a place of You...seeing You in ALL...from focus on the Work...

...the Work is what has to get done beyond me...beyond this body and lifetime...

...the results are clear...the results are premised on shifting the paradigm...the paradigm is doing the same thing and expecting different results...the same thing is being passive, being reclusive, thinking i can do it myself, thinking i don't need anyone, thinking too much, sitting behind this computer, jotting it down, but not doing it...not finding ways to be accountable, not being accountable...

...the result is the imagination, the dream...what i see...what i imagine, but what i am not doing about...the result happens through planning, with habits built into the plan, to ensure the happening...

...the plan is to seek support, to be clear on what i want, to use this clarity to be supple and not hard, to be a Lover in all ways, to give and be unconditional Love...

...the plan is to be in a state of Work...the vision is to be seeing clients throughout the work week...to be in a place of service...to give...support folks in their work...back to back...to be in a team...checking in with the team...working together...building tribe...growing, gardening, making medicine, learning...to get out of the state of being solitary...super-man...to be in a team...

...what does it look like?...the exercise is this...what does the ideal you look like...?...the one that is results oriented...?...the one that is full aligned?...the one that is full in touch with the One...fully plugged in...the one who Knows this is brief, that every moment passes...that as fast as i type, the words dissipate, just like the second before, just like the friend i said what;s up to, like the guy i scrunched my face for, the supermarket i floated through...whether i spent or not...the moment passed...the moment always does...life in this form always does...always will...the vedantists say this is not it...the is not-self...Self is that which is Always...that which has no beginning nor no end...and i don't know, but i do know that everyone i have ever known, through a period of space and time has changed, looks different, moves different, is in shape, out of shape, trying to get back in shape, gave up on shape, lost their shape, left us...left...is in the place of Mystery...the place i can only conjecture on...don't know if this is it or not...if this is the one-life that many speak of...those who've lost and left religion...don't know...faith in observation, in the laws followed by the trees and planets, the stars and the orbits, keeps me in a state of movement, in going deeper, much deeper, in floating, in ascending, in reaching...

...all praise is due...

...the results are grounded, are plugged into You...and with You, i am working...collaborating...doing...giving...trusting...seeing You in All, seeing Love, being Love...happy when you are happy, empathetic when you are hurt...but Always in a state of Peace...in a state of Source of Peace...regardless of sensations, of what others say or don't...

...this full moon...november 2017, i let go of doing the same thing, in the same way, and getting the same results, by doing it different, by planning, and building habits into the plan, by connecting with You...by Loving You...all praise is due for You...

Sunday, October 22, 2017

bout it


be about it...bout it bout it...

what are you about? why?

are you about night life? night time? cool? impressions, impressing...who? why? what are you chasing...?...

...at the party last night...the brother told me that he lost sense before the car crashed, before his car was totaled...he woke up in the hospital tied to machines, injections, cables stringing him up...he appeared alright, cause as he was speaking, i was checking him out, checking to see if he was okay...

...it hurts he said, it really hurts...but yo man, i'm blessed, i am so blessed and wake up every morning saying this these days...that i'm blessed...all praise is due...

...i would've agreed with him...but recently, i've been wondering...been wondering about this, about where we are at...this ephemeral being, where things are constantly changing, never the same, even when it appears to be...that people constantly come and go...that this is a swivel door, and sometimes at the pace of blur...so what's the point...?...

...and if the path of spirit is to bring us closer to that which is Always, and that is what we long for, and this is the maya, then why is there such great investment in this?...why was bro so glad that he was still here?...

...part of it was that he had a a kid and grandkid...a young grandfather...a tie, a tether, something to tie him to this world...

...but, if you don't? then what?...hmmm...deep...people are our tether...we are in need of others...we need them to survive, for our own sustenance and mental health, and well being...the article on alzheimers between the u.s. and india showed this...that there was a lower incidence of alzheimer's among village indians...then affluent elders in america...they traced this to the social climate...the social environs...

...we need each other...and what kept bro alive was that, his being needed, and feeling he needed to...

...this is the key ALLAH offers us through scripture...to do good deeds, to serve humanity, to serve the Creation...all beings, all life..sereve...my dad told me..tells me, told me when we spoke on the phone a few days ago...has told me for decades...i can forgive you for most everything, but not for failing to serve your fellow being...

...the purpose of being here is to serve...to serve...to be there for others...to do...to have this be your meditation...and those who don't want your service? learn from them...take the feedback, and give, with Love, and leave with Love, and continue to Love and serve...

...as the prophet muhammad (s.a.w) tells us, let your work be your worship...work with worship...

...he also tells us to walk with the grave besides us...to walk like a traveler with the grave besides us...

...as a traveler i am in tuned, alert, new, in a state of a new slate, starting all over, starting from the beginning, seeing things like a baby...

...Love...give...work...be what you wish to receive...treat with Love, unconditional, as if it was you being treated this way - with care, with love, with joy, with happiness...with welcome...

...and focus...work with focus...your task is clear...and the thing is...none of us know...or atleast i don't know if i'm ever going to be a form again, and that's probably why so many musicians put out the line one life to live...i don't know about that either, but i do know that being a human is an opportunity, a brief one, and if this is a gift, how can be a Gift to life...?...

...service...work...focus...simplicity...

Sunday, October 15, 2017

living in alignment


...with your values...your values are to be one with One, to be in a state of Peace, by being unconditional Love...to do this by being in a way that is lived, that is in thought, as thought informs action...

...you can't expect it from others, but you can be this for others...if you want others to be golden with their word, and find deception, underhandedness, craftiness, etc...this is an opportunity for you to go deeper in your truth, in being what you wish for, as they are you and you are them and if they can't treat you with that respect and love and acceptance, then you can treat them with it...Love...

...keep it pushing with Love...even if it feels you want to avenge your pride...let go of your ego...be Peace...give...One...be impeccable with your word, love, deed, peace, giving...this is short...the whole thing comes down to deeds...

...doing right deeds means doing from a place of pranayama - deep breathing, letting go of ego - the lesson, the closed doors, the rejections, are an opportunity to go deeper in your Love, to let go of this sense of me, pride, to observe the deep attachment to ego, to this sense of self, which constantly seeks reward, and when not rewarded, feels punished, hurt...

...instead, taking the shut doors as an opp, as a gift, to go deeper, in honesty, in truth, in practicing what you wish to see, building this sanskara/s...

Thursday, October 5, 2017

full moon october 2017


...today...beautiful...an evolution of this ceremony, as it was in community...it's good to pray alone, better to pray in community, the prophet tells us...all praise is due for this man, this Light, who has allowed me to stay on earth and not in a place of burial, due to rituals, due to the teachings of the importance of constancy, of maintaining grounded in that which is Always..

...odd...in the ephemeral world we, i, am so attached to, at times, we cling, ground in something we feel to be real, but then what happens to everything, every moment? gone...no scientist has figured out how to bring the last second back...

...as people i know step outside this cafe i sit in, to have a cipher around weed, around puffing, i am reminded of a period when my life was a community of smoke, of being dazed, of only feeling comfortable in communion through indulgence in altered mind states...and ultimately, further from self, from Self, deep in a bottomless pit of emotional strife...

...through the teachings, through the sittings, through the pause...ALLAHooAkbar...drowned in the Infinite...

...in mundane terms this is fresh juices, vegetarianism/veganism, fasting, connection (salat), bowing down...bowed down four times today, looking forward to the fifth...asana practice, pranayama, walks, and writing...listening tuning in to the sattvic and building community around this...

...today i handled some biz, took a test, steadfast in my rituals - prayer, yoga, abhyanga - today i got deeper in my splits and hollow bodies, and tuck ups, and handstand practice...today i got deeper in my intake of medicines - had skullcap at home, had nettles, had dandelion, all as singles, had herbal tea blends at the cafe...

...today, i was reminded of how important it is to be in a state of Love and Joy for others when they share what makes them happy, what brings them joy, what makes them happy...instead of feeling grief, instead of using it as an opportunity to evaluate yourself, and your own unhappiness, and shortcomings, while they are speaking, which informs disdain, resent, anger, haterisms...

...give up the haterisms, be among the tribe of isa and musa and muhammad...be among those who dissolve their bodies in the stars, shuddering at the glimpse of how small we are, and learning in the process how free we are to be Beauty, to be amongst the circle of stars....

...give up the haterations, the resent, by delving into your pain, letting it go, release it, transform it into that which can help others...that can grow and support...writing does this for me, walking,moving, being in movement, in flow, in connecting with You and You and You, does this for me...

...today, i got up, feeling my highs, and my lows...during this fast...and felt strong in the yuj, the union with One, One-ness, in staying connected with the remembering why i Am here...to be of service, to be of service through maintaining focus on that which is Always through my offerings, which involve community, which involve accountable relations, and when those are absent, walking towards this aspiration, without expecting, without expecting you to do the same, and instead taking joy in your joy, even if that is in the opposite direction, because our paths are different...

...this full moon, conviction in community expanded through moon salutations by the ganga of ithaca, cayuga lake, in community with my spirit-cousin, who bowed down with me, referring to our movement as moonment...as we shared reflections with one another throughout the day...

...today was halleleuja, because of focus, not despite...of staying clear, and steering clear of emotion...watching hunger pangs as i strolled past restaurants and imagined all the things i'd eat after, after all was said and done....and watched, as goenka-ji of vipassana encourages us all to do...i watched and noticed...this body...it's addiciton...it's desires...and noticed how it still moves, regardless, that it still operates, so then what are these pangs...?...

...then i applied this to emotions in other spheres, expectations, disappointments, what would it mean to fast from emotions, from emotional responses?...what would it mean to work with Love without emotion? to move, the way i have moved today, without food, without feeding my taste buds, and doing this with emotional state, without an investment in outcome, but instead working towards a Higher, towards an embrace of Higher together...?...

...this month, this past month, i was working towards letting go of perfectionism by allowing myself to be vulnerable and doing this specifically by putting forth my gifts, in the form of medicine, and writings...i did this on a low scale in a safe way, that maintained my complacency...

...this full moon, i let go of low stakes, of keeping myself in complacency by being in low stakes, by avoiding the risks i need to take that will leaving me reaching High...and instead i reach high, real High, i reach through building high stakes, by creating the circumstances to reach High...in yoga, in cooking, in offering these, my herbs and writings, and medicines for, with others, in building community...in doing this by focusing on the Beauty, by not ignoring the ugly, and the hard, and difficult, but seeing these challenges as challenges, as opportunities, ad gifts from the High to allow me to grow deeper, to reach Higher, to figure it out...

...what i need to figure out is how can i love you despite my expectations, despite complete lack of accountability, despite it all...and i think i can by staying focused on what i Am here to do, which is to Love, to write, to make and give and be medicine, to work towards other Lovers to be in communion with and offer Love for those who are hurt and maintain distance, an unaccountability...

...i need to figure out how to make the medicines i'd like to offer without having all the ingredients and equipment and packaging....and i can by bartering, by investing, by taking the time to do the work in making these medicines....

...asking, listening, speaking less, listening more...moving in meditation, being I, being I, despite it all, without allegiance to image and audience and rejection and criticism...happy cause you are, and gladdened by your crtitiques instead of pained...

...all praise is due...all praise is due...all praise is Always due...

Monday, October 2, 2017

victim of cicumstance


...through thick fog, i worked, because i had to, because there was a deadline, an audience, a performance, an evaluation, high stakes...

...what is it about high stake, and audience, and deadlines...the combination thereof, that makes us produce...?...i think its because, we ultimately want the approval of others, we naturally feel an accountability to others, and require structures to do it...

...omar ali shah speaks on this, on the importance of circumstance...there is something to performance. to performers, even if its small scale...even it's at a porchfest...the crowd response is essential to the perfomers, and they prepare, rehearse, work on getting it right...

...things have to be high stakes for things to move...the spray of a broken-hearted man into a crowd of concert-goers, leaving a pool of blood, leaving a generation of trauma, will permanently change things...

...the high stakes of freedom led to freedom movements that left people willing to sacrifice their life for values, for a change, one they might see...

...what are the ingredients of high stakes? a deadline, an audience, a consequence - reward or punishment...

...in the absence of the high stakes, there is a lacksadaisical approach to your goals, there is a perfectionism that prevails, there is a constant procrastination, because it is not due yet...it's not just right...

...so what to do? find out. apply for that position at that high stakes spot, that will require you to produce, that will require you to get it published. give them a date that you will have it by. then work like crazy!!!...with Purpose...from a place of One-ness...


Sunday, September 17, 2017

fast day 9 autumn 2017: completion


...schools, classes, circumstance creates/instills institutional bonds, mandatory social interaction, a potentially beautiful coercion...this can be work, a course, a program, a band, an organization...

lone-gun-menship leads you to maintaining loner-ism...loner-ism leaves you apart from the puzzle...from being part of the resolve of this human condition...

...what is the human condition?...it is the poetry of those who feel so much their kitchori leaves others in tears...leaves them in laughter, in joy and pain, as is the case with ammu's meals - joy and pain...

..the human condition is as varied as the diversity of life on planet earth...but seems like there are some binds - feels like there is some pain we are sharing...my pain and your pain...however dis-similar, is pain, is an experience, leads us to hang our heads low, slip into existential quagmire...

...as i write, kids, men, women in syria r being slaughtered, bombs dropped on them, in the name of stopping terrorism, we are annhilating entire cultures, peoples, ways of life...

...we meaning me and you...

...not in jail...whew...not in the hospital...not crippled...not homeless...not without family and friends...and yet...

...at the conclusion of this fast, i realize the centrality of joy and pain in the life of humans, in my life...how i seek joy and avoid pain...and yet, also understanding that pain is possible because of the joy i seek...

...if joy is in seeing someone, in being in their presence, in holding them, in taking strolls with them...then what happens when they are not around for this, what if/when they can't hang, or hold, or has others they are doing this with instead...then pain...then hurt...we become children...we've learned co-dependence instead of interdependence...

...in interdependence, nothing happens alone, work is bee-hive, community, and yet, there is independence in your duty, in collecting honey, pollen, in doing your duties to the hive...you maintain focus, regardless of whether you will live or die...you do for the cause...

..what is the cause?...what is your cause...?...

...my cause is to re-establish ancient-mathematics, tribal relations, build tribe, build community, sustain community, through this medicine...through writing, and herbs, and movement...

...at the conclusion of this fast, this deeply emotional fast, in the shedding of weight, and past lives, in the growth of weakness in the ana-maya-kosha, i realize the importance of unconditional Love, of presence, of work as worship, as the prophet said...i realize the importance of being meditative in the movement of moment to moment...shhh...of commitment to a place, and people, to grow deeper in the work...i realize the importance of complete honesty...from the inside out...of being honest with Self...

...is my hanging out with you for you or for me?...do we/i seek out pleasure like an addict seeks heroin?...am i hanging with you because it makes me feel good or it makes you feel good?...been contemplating this question, based on the questions and teachings of goenka-ji of vipassana...

...this past week of fasting has made clear the importance of meditation, of reserved meditation, but also the moment to moment...

...like my daily asana practice, a non-negotiable that takes me deeper...is applying these principles off the mat...of doing this in my medicine making...letting myself grow deep through the practice...just as i did after the initial teachings i received in india...growing deeper over the years...just as i have begun to with prayer, learning more surahs, learning to pause...to apply vinyasa to exchanging in the marketplace - medicines, courses, clients, cooking food as medicine for others to support their cleaning, their deeper beauty...in sharing yogum...in growing deeper in ayurveda...in these writings...

...asana is a discipline...and things happen in the practice...apply this practice to the areas you are working on growing in...if you are healthy...what is the purpose of you being healthy? what r u doing with it? how r u using your health?...

...create the institutional circumstance to ensure your movement forward...do it with equanimity, with understanding that each moment is potentially deeply emotional that can be ama, that can be stuck and glue in your brain and emotions and body, or it can be a breath that you take in, appreciate, and release...

...appreciate and let go...remember...muhammad (s.a.w) is dead, ALLAH is Infinite (-abu bakr)...




Thursday, September 14, 2017

fast day 6 autumn 2017


all praise is due...even when the skies are grey and the clouds thick with wonder...all moments pass, whether you are eating or fasting...

...this is often the lesson in asana practice, that you are in virabadrasana, and your thighs begin to burn, and your arm starts to shake, and you just want it to be over....this is where asana is merged with pratyahara....concentration...what is your point of concentration? what are you focused on? if you are focused on pain, on the sensations of your body, you will buckle, you will grow irritable, you will desire the relief...if your pratyahara is as witness, as witness to this body, to observing it, to maintaining breath, to focusing on center...a letting go occurs...depth grows...

...concentration leads to dharana, to a state of meditation...

...if you are seeking glory...

...if you are seeking Glory...then shhh..then work...the watch, then witness....

...work...today's lesson in day 3 of the no food portion of the fast, is that the streams flow, maintain a focus in their flow, work in community with the rocks, valleys, ground that holds them...

...todays lesson is that Love is not an act of emotion but an act of aligning with Essence...Essence is ubiquitous...and the alignment happens through work...

...this is why the greatest moments of ecstasy a human can experience, in my estimation, is when they work through something tough, and reach the other side of it...

...for instance...getting through a jail sentence, or surviving a brush with death, or a loved one surviving a brush with death, or a challenging yoga sequence, pose, a challenging hike, a presentation, an album release...a party...there is the fear of what will happen, of the unknown, of what if no one...what if i get locked up...what if i look stupid and fall in this pose...what if i don't make it...

...the what-if's are the voice of doubt that keep us at bay, that keep us from doing, that keep us looking for lines of safety to withdraw into...but that might ultimately land you in jail, if you are facing it and not working to get yourself free...that might get you killed, if you are facing death and not working to survive...that will keep in mediocrity...

...what steps you up is doing, is trying, is giving it your all...from a place of Greater than you...for the sake of balance...of humanity, of trees, of tribe - your folks...

...this fast brings up these moments of emotion...of sinking in them...of defaulting on safety...but the discipline, the fact that i said it, keeps me going, just like when i practice asana...it's something i do...its not for anyone...but how can it benefit others? how can it help...?...rubicks cube...unlock the body by letting go of fears, of shame, of attachment...

and that's what i was telling emperor, when he was asking me what i was fasting for...hadn't thought about it....or no one else had asked...i said it was seasonal, to align with our planetary spheres, to let go and shed and shift, just as our planet was, in it's tilt of axis, as the weather grows from hot and dry to cooler and rainy...an opportunity to release the fire built up this summer, the one that led me to scorch my path...release fire and grow equaninmous...

...in aligning with the planets, with our earth, i am aligning with trees and rivers, and Mahat, Brahama...that which is Always...in stepping away from food, from eating, i am able to witness the body's cravings, desires, the notes it makes about all the things it will eat, it wants to eat...watching the emotional body...how strong it is...the sense of emotions is strong and dangerous when it is tied to ego, when it becomes an identity...

...in the letting go...the focus is on the work...on the importance of the work...not competition, but the work that needs to get done...work...like your life depended on it...with great pause, and Peace...

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

fast day 5 autumn 2017


...liquids...since yesterday...watching this body...observing its lusts and desires...

toni morrison said that if you want to fly, you have to give up that ish that weighs you down...

...wha's weighing you down?...

...i'm realizing that i'm holding a lot....alot alot...i'm carrying mess from childhood, mess that keeps me in a constant state of appearances, audiences, this desire to be affirmed, to get validation from you and you and you, and my attitude, at once, contradicts this - i don't care - but i do...i care deeply...but the depth isn't from a place of Real, but a place of iodlization, of believing the lies, the hurt, the cuss words, epithets, all of it...believe it, even though i didn't, even though i went through life...believed it and tucked it deep inside, deeper than the blade behind my teeth, deeper than the coke that mules hold in their flights here from coke capitals...

...what does it mean? how is it still here? how after decades of fasting, of 14 years of consciousness in body and movement and breath, and food, and fasts within this context...well...because i was holding on - held tight to vices - to lines of hydroxyl groups bound to saturated carbons...to puff and music that destroyed my spirit, to clothes that required seals of approval...it goes on..

these adornments have been coming off a little at a time...but just a little...then there are things that are still here...i'm noticing...in this fast...in taking a step away from eating...and watching, instead how much i'm addicted to emotional states - to wanting to feel good, to approval and how i am hurt, and in avoidance of those states that feel like pain...i see this in yoga, in how i don't let myself fall from handstand, how i will use muscle to get out...

...brute force only sustains the issue, builds up sanskaras...impressions that become like lines on cement...been heating them....watching molten rock, watching this volcanic river i am swimming in...

...goenka-ji tells ue to avoid the joy-ride, to avoid the seeking of pleasure, as it neccessarily leads to the avoiding of pain...unless you are really going deep...as we see with some people in their practice...

...i go deep with yoga...am disciplined in my practice...and, as i seek this off the mat...look forward to doing this with medicine making...set the clock for an hour, and get to work...

...observing the emotions...observing asif, the author of these words, the one who identifies with the flotsam of jetsam of identities in compiling his own...the one who is sensitive to the world, to others, who is at once seeking escape from sensory assault and at once desiring stimulation, to be wanted, regarded, validated...through a piece of the pie...

...guess i didn't realize i've been after the devil's pie all this time...only thought of it as money, as capitalism, and not the culture this inculcates - seeking the capital of validation, acceptance, of fitting in to you, to money, to subcultures, to...

...observing when it happens, where it feels, the drop of heart and twist of eyebrow, the neural pathways that signal for certain types of music that will generate the abysmal frequency that fruther traps me into this...these sanskaras, impressions that begin to need a bridge to cross...

...observing, as witness, breathing deep, and letting go...notcing the addiction to thought, to thinking of that which keeps me from You, thinking, hurting, perplexing...because this mind is addicted to thought, to seeking pain and pleasure, and melancholy and laughter...

...observing and acknowledging through breath, through, traveling with the thought for a little while a s a witness, to get to root of where it comes from, to then weed the roots of lies, let go...


Tuesday, September 12, 2017

fast day 4 autumn 2017


...blessings...to You...to You...

...noticing patterns...repetition...redundancy...addictions to: hurt, love, anticipation, disappointment, pretending, keeping it in, noncommital-ness...

...my path is the same as yours - to Love, to Give, to Surrender...to do this through work, as work is what keeps us in a state of communion, of giving, of loving, of being a positive member of this and the next world - do good deeds, ALLAH repeats, a mantra in the Recitation...good deeds...

...deeds are work...what are your deeds...good deeds are work that is in service, that supports others...that is uncompromised in loving, giving...is ammu cooking for 30 3 days in a row, 1900 weeks in a row - a state of meditation - work...

...my patterns are to avoid doing that which needs to get done, to deviate, to get distracted easily, to get distracted in fantasy...to mono-focus on this, to do this in a way that is injurious, burdensome to my spirit, that interferes with my work...

...in the absence of distractions, i am consumed in finding distractions - being behind this screen for several hours a day, scavenging for jobs, putting out resumes, blogging, sipping coffee and growing emotionally ravenous...sending out messages to friends and family to express my Love...being a phone-texting jesus...

...the real isa was amidst crowds and people, walked fearlessly, did fearlessly...died fearlessly...

...i once heard that in order to know what your life means, it's important to know what you are willing to die for...

...the movements of the 40's, 50's and 60's were particularly gravitational for people i knew, because it was clear to see that there were many people willing to die for a cause, and that cause was a movement to shape, change society towards a better world...no more colonialism, not more subjugation, no more oppression, no more exploitation...instead, there would be new nations that practiced egalitarianism...this propelled many...not just the ideas, but the fact that people, the majority of people, were being subjugated ruthlessly, and felt no other choice, but to choose a movement...

...the circumstances of extreme oppression on a mass, societal level, by clear faces of an oppressor class, created opportunity for mass movement... what does that now?...

...are people drawn to making change based on changing society towards equality?...seems like the change most are working on is to be able to fit in...that my brown-ness should be able to engage in capitalism just like your whiteness and blackness and yellowness... that my religion should be able to play exploiter just like you do...

...the issue is, this for me, misses the mark...it's more reactionary...

...what would hit the mark? building alternative self-sustainable communities that are self-reliant, that are interdependent, that are accountable to a Higher power, to a deeper cause...

...what is that deeper cause? to reach heaven, to be plural, to work towards re-forestation, towards being aligned with earth and not earth as something in the way for us to align into our needs...the deeper cause would be here-after - the stars - reaching mars - ancient mathematics...

...culture has the potential to change entire ways of being...today, there are numerous subcultures, and subcultures based on subcultures...they change things...they have the power to change things...

...on day 4, as i spilled my guts out...as i watched weight slip under me...i also watched trepidations of the heart, mind, of fantasies. of these fantasies keeping from the Plan, and Work...

...keep the Work in focus...there is a great deal of work to do...be fearless in your Work...

...my Work is to build schools of traditional medicine that instill the values of Love...this is the long term... the immediate is the herbal blends, which can lead to discussion, classes, economic self-sustenance, employment of others...

Sunday, September 10, 2017

fast day 2 autumn 2017


all praise is due...disturbed, perturbed, in search of home...in contemplation of those without a home, displaced by war...

...somehow we are tied together, those bombed and those doing the bombing...i must be part of the camp doing the bombing as i am doing nothing to stop it, other than tear up during my yoga practice in the morning...

...somehow, those of us in a space of angst, alienation in the modern world, strangled by our own desire for, sense of freedom, our constant state of rebellion fostered by hollywood, fox and mtv, and the seemingly alternative cultures that offer a seeming opposition...we are strangled by this, by this individualism, deeply steeped in it...immersed in our alone-ness, and yet wanting, longing for something deeper...

...the deeper, is a threat...threatens our very sense of existence, because it is Real...and the Real takes us away from our sensory addictions, from our sense of want and taste and 85% dark chocolate with buckwheat honey in place of sugar (as is the case for me)...

...home...this is what i realized today...this is what i was seeking in my walk everywhere...in my scatter towards somewhere a friend may be...just to feel a grounding, just to feel secure enough to work, to get some work done...

...abbu always tells me, when we speak, when i am away from him, how he wants to eat better and even incorporate yoga into his life...but then when i get there, when i get to him, when i am not away, he is reading, or on his ipad, or going to a meeting to save the world...he does this with full breath...

...we, us from this tribal background, us who are splintered from our ancestral ways, we seek home, and when we are home, we can do everything else...in the absence, we are out of water, huffing, seeking water in bars, supermarkets, shopping...

...home...is with One...and the One is ubiquitous...the One is Always, Infinite, before this body i occupy, and after it is shed...before these words and after...it is written...the arabic is in the genes, at the center of each cell...

...home is in letting go of these constructs that keep me from you, keep me from sharing, seeing you as separate, of shortchanging anyone...of with-holding...give...give...be kind...let go...give...here are beads and books and touch...give...laugh and cry...

this fast i learn to take on the teaching of the prophet of universalism - bow down to All...the Highest in me, to the Highest in You...and move like it...like the autistic brother who came up to me randomly, on the street, and asked me my name, and if i wanted to be friends...expect nothing in return, and when there is even negativity, a suck of teeth or a dirty look, continue to give Love...

...unconditional Love is the lesson of the day....


Saturday, September 9, 2017

fast day 1 autumn 2017


your house is full of Mystery, of that which is unKnown, for people who run, rush, move in fast forward...people like myself....

...hence the fast... hence the Return...

...at this point, i have no science for you, for this fast, to quote, other than the observations based on ancient mathematics that reside in equations within my nucleus, which, at every moment transferring information to be transcribed and executed through the protein structures the compose our symphony...

...today i observed the addict, the whisperer, the one there are specific prayers to ward off, clothes and a covering of the head, to guard the sahasarara, the 1000 lotus petal connected to Always, and tampered with in the cell towers of babylon conversations, music...

...began this morning with de la soul, and even threw on drake, before i realized that this fast is to re-connect with more than a moment of assimilation into crowd funded idolization...

...as i entered the cafe, i considered coffee...it would be cheaper than the fresh juice...it would give me a lift, leave me with a sense of sattva...

in a merryground, at each juncture of the day, i bowed down...recalled that if i have time to be behind this screen, to read and research, to chill and browse clothes at the second-hand...then i have time to surrender this mind in total to One...

...the fast, in accord with some of the principles of ayurveda, and the prescripts of the guru muhamma (s.a.w), at this point, consists of 2 meals of kitchori - a late late breakfast, and an early early dinner: 12:15 and 4:30pm...

...the music has transitioned into baul...to instruments in worship of pure Essence....all praise is due...

...the clarity has grown...from a place of despondence in money/family blues, the blues of an ancient world and culture my tribe and i r permanently amputated from...into a place of work from a place of reflection, equanimity in that which must be done...

...returning to a place of unconditional Love, Peace, when i see You, when i dress, when i anoint myself with your Essence through prayer, pause, gratitude, hope...

...there is work to be done...to bring glory to the Glory...all praise is due for those in Surrender, for bauls, qari's, the tribes of Quiet...




Wednesday, September 6, 2017

full moon september 2017


...all praise is due, all praise is always due, all praise was due last year and the year before and the day after today when i will be inside

...water under the sea, a million leagues into the oceans of the One-ness...

when i reunite, and today, during the drive, the one that took a thousand minutes, five to 9 hours, from 6 am onwards, wondering of time and fruitfulness, of how to tap into productivity, that on...

the run on, the one that never ends...


...today i never ended

...again

...and tomorrow, or tonight, later, next minute...

 i don't know about...there is something to be said about the wind as it falls at the edge of the earth flattended by the footsteps of gravity and the pull of the sun...

i made sense once, before i came here, to this destitution, the institutional nightmare that prescribes methanol as freedom and packages yoga into  a bead and a mat, today...

...today, as i reflect on the weight of this harvest moon, the fall seasons, the letting go, the letting go of being non-committal in all things, in holding on to patterns, of letting go of these patterns..i let go of that which is an impediment to mankind in the 2000's - me, the ego, the one that repeats the patterns of storylines that impact my cousins, keep them unemployed, keep them scraping, the one that keeps my parents incarcerated in economic rigamarole, the one...

...this month, this coming month, i let go of patterns of poverty, of conditional-ness, of the patterns that are behind this, the thought process behind this...perfection -the one day, when it's just right....

this month i let go of the perfectionism that keeps me in a state of hoarding onto the gifts that are not mine, but belong to the One-ness, the ones that i tuck into my waist like a stolen bar of gold and chocolate...

...this month, instead, in letting go of the perfectionsim of produciton, i embrace the vulnerability of output, because it has to be produced -the herbs, the letting go of books, and clothes and things, that i hold on to, because of a perfect moment of having an online store, a thrift shop,  a one day...

...let go an praise You in the letting forth...all praise...all hail...You...it's You...

...i see You and let go my guards, let go of the constructs that keep from expressing Love, giving, working...all praise is due...

Monday, August 28, 2017

post-eclipse


braiding into your life until we are as tight as the long thick triple braids snaking down the girls of bangladesh, india, native north and south america...ancient like the eclipse last week, the one that left me in a permanent state of prostration...nothing will ever be the same again...

...the signs are clear...the eclipse was invisible to my naked eye, even when i used dark dark shades, my eyes burned, i saw smoke and yellow...

...then the woman with the stilletos and long brunette hair handed me her 3-D glasses..it's there she said, pointing past the tree in front of the gimmee coffee, into sunlight...

...what was hidden became apparent, known, a moon in front of a sun...a revelation, an ayat...ayatullah...sign of One, the One, the One-ness, the sum total of the 99 - ALLAH...

...25 to life for that statement...guantanamo for humility... bombs over rakah for community...

...the life of the humble, the indigenous, those engaged in the indigenous way from damascus to dineh-land, from northern ireland to gabon, is a threat to the ego, an interference to the flow of capital, of splintering all of us into parts and parcels...

...bow down...have been in a bow since the solar eclipse...in a state of Lover, of ponderance...

...medicine for you, for your mother and father and brother and sister an cousin and grandfolks, and aunties and uncles...tribe...standing with you...

...i'm standing with you tribe...i see You...i see You...

...all praise is due...all praise is due for the signs that make it clear, this is it, this is the end...there is always a beginning...

...bow down...let go...surrender to the Source of Peace...through work, through listening, compassion, love...love is presence, vulnerability, work, accountability, supple, free, flowing, unconditional, giving...

...the Lover gives, is generous, trusts fully in the Infinite...

...the eclipse revealed the crescent star, our sun...the symbol of the path...what is the sign?

Monday, August 14, 2017

job description


work for world possibility, preparing the body/soul for the next - after-life, for peace, more than just tolerance of one another, more than just learning to live together and deal, but to honor one anothers traditions, Real traditions, more than the babylon material the lies in curated tears in jeans, in the shine of chains and new sneakers - to be in Surrender to the One, to live in humility by living simply, growing into simpleness, to bring glory to the Glory instead of seeking glory, to work for One-ness, for a world in alignment with the One, to align with the Laws that are written in the orbit of the moon around the earth, the earth on its axis tilted, and revolving around the sun, the flow of rivers and dolphins, monarch migration, to learn to align, to do more than romanticize and go back to ancient ways, but to take the torch in this to grow towards unifying with all beings, to grow more significant by growing less, to support future generations in not instilling in them that they can be and od anything they want, but to respect the Laws, and that they can be Peace and reach human possibility through humility and connection to Source, through being in Law, through connecting with other life, through living and working towards interdependence and not independence/isolation, to learn to maintain self in self - body health, mind health, spirit health, to do this by having a deep relationship with their food source, through focus, and trusting others in their focus to figure out how to work together and not for dolo, to do from a place of common good instead of self good, to put family over every, and family being more than just biological, but also the importance of biological...

job descriptions in education focus on aligning students with core, with core being babylon standards on reading writing thinking...progressive education gigs focus on supporting students in learning history from a different perspective, so they are more culture, more proud, instead of feeling absent, and where this may be important, the paradigm is the same...

...no schemes sun...scheming leads to coming up with putting your self first, in figuring out how to get a slice of the devil's pie...

...Real tells me that there is work to be done...that the local work, the work in your area is essential to the work of the whole, so long as it embodies universalism...the path of Surrender resolved the tribal wars by reminding us that we are One...that we can bow down together...

...job description - your job is to build instill community, to cultivate interdependence, to support the whole, to build in each their creative uniqueness and possibility can be fully Realized only in a jam session with others, in symphony we can reach the stars...

...how can you plug in your talents towards the greater good, towards Peace, towards a more perfect Union? how can you move away from being/seeking to be a star, a one-man show?

...isolationism in america is killing young and old alike, cutting through ethnic groups, and targeting those who have subscribed to the universal doctrine of individualism/nihilism/narciccism...

...no matter the type of asana work you do, the plant-based wholesome diet you eat, the herbal medicines you take, the hours of meditation and retreats you take, so long as you are not in community, so long as you are isolated, so long as others are hurt, others meaning humans, other species, plant-life, water life, etc - then you will suffer, and be depressed...the world is suffering because of your detachment, your pretending, your lack of effort to connect...

...the purpose of salat in the path of Surrender is connection...connection allows to ask, to get to the next stage...

...schools, cohorts, the experience of being in a struggle together, based on principles of Love, Peace, striving, universalism, create community...

...your job is to build a school that trains people to be self-sufficient tribes, in rooting in community, in increasing community, through alignment with the Source through a real relationship with food, plants, other species, each others body, learning to listen, learning to move from a place of humility...

...the school of ancient ways, of traditional medicine, of community medicine...

...my herbal pouches are an excuse for me to connect with you...

...you down?

Monday, August 7, 2017

full moon august 2017


move like winter, like dry leaves bansheeing ireland in queens...

full moon 2017. august. black august. white is the color of my mothers teeth. brown is the color of the earth, the farmers i met today make paths in...they are clearing weed shrubs for passages, for movement...

full moon and i am blurred between mantra and change...between repetition and of a dream, of a phrase, of a self-help catch-phrase and something giving, some kind of discovery, some kind of revenue, and ride-or-die, and house, and family...

somethings got to give...

...it's me...that was the intention for this new year - i've got to give fully, to surrender fully in this path, without compromise, without fear of failure, because this is not about money, this is not about scarcity...because ALLAH is Infinite...

...and of course, this is the mantra...a repetition of that which i recognize as truth...

...where i'm at is i do this work of heart to heart, of working towards a better world, a more meaningful us, all of us, and hope to instill compassion in all of us, in myself, in the past and future...

...working to relieve the pain the of the past, the fears of the past, of lineage, by staying firm in spirit, in bowing down, in praying, in reading scripture, in keeping my tongue wet with ALLAH, in not selling my soul for the devil's pie...did you already sell yours?..

...working to restore peace in the future, to facilitate the ALWAYS, a world that respects one another, plurality, is in alignment with the One-ness, the Laws, like sun n moon...

how does this happen? the past is cleared, cleansed, through my actions now, in how i eat, how i engage with the food i eat, in how i carve time to pray, in how i am connecting, building with my family, from a place of reverence, from a place of salam, of responsibility, of tribe...

...our tribe is splintered and i have no fingers to point to...i can tell you that it was a changing world, a world that had jobs in the cities, and the cities where was the gold was, where education was, where the modern was, where the future was, and the village was where the backward were, where the uncivilized, uncouth, uneducated, old were...but most importantly, it was where those who would become indentured to the city dwellers were...afterall the villages are the places where things grow and the cities were people manage, shot-call, sit behind desks, make posters on computers, to get others to eat and buy...

...i am cleared through the village...through being the village for my family, my tribe, in carrying forth the values of my village, my tribe...they are beautiful values, unvalued in the modern world - being humble, respecting the Creation, the earth, living in accord with the Laws of the Universe, praying, being in community, moving as a community, community is a threat to babylon...babylon is everywhere in the world now, in our cells, in my cells, they keep me in a state of riding this thing out, of thinking somehow it will workout for me, that i will be an exception, that i could ride the line - walk truth and babylon...

...ALLAH-hu-Akbar...

...this month i let go of the last, this full moon as i reflect on this current state of deficit spending, of being apart from income, and the blues this sings...i am also reminded of that which is Always...of ALLAH-hu-Akbar - ALLAH is greater than a moment of woe, of challenge, of fear and trepidation...

...as i reflect, i am reminded of this opportunity to be again, to have this opportunity to provide, to move, to have this body, thes arms, legs, these fingers to type with, these words to release, to share, these eyes to see...

...almost didn't make it last month...almost...could've been something else...could've been you reading these writings of a post-humous unknown author...

...this month, as a i release this past, as i let go of the challenges that i am still dealing with after the accident, after making a poor purchase, i am reminded in mantra that ALLAH is Infinite, that there is no scarcity, that the most important thing to do is do, to work, to work from a place of Always, not to prove a point, not to make a name, not to seek Glory, but to support all of us in aligning with One - through the laws, through each other...

all praise is due...

...i need ten thousand dollars a month to see people for a month, to do treatments on them, to work with them to facilitate their change and their deepening their relationship with Mother, with their mother, with their kids, with generations before and after - you have to cleanse your past because you carry the hurt of it, to cleanse you have to feed your soul, you feed your soul through giving yourself over to that which is ALWAYS, through works of goodness, through doing good, through helping others...of course, i hear my mothers voice, the truth, telling me to stop speaking nonsense, that you can barely feed ourselves so how could you be trying to help others when you can't help your self?
she's right...has to be both...

...do good deeds...work...panchakarma...focus on panchakarma...on herbal medicines for those who can't do panchakarma, for those who can't afford it...on providing nutritional and lifestyle support...

...everything should be geared towards helping those who need you, not those you can get money from...all praise is due...

...the work then, here, is salat - connection ; dua - prayer - is to promote the tradition of ancient medicine, to do panchakarma...

...this month then is to let go of being distracted - distracted almost got me killed; this month is to let go of codependence, in lack of clarity, of making poor decisions based on trust, on lack of planning, on desperation...work from a place of clarity, of honesty, of planning, of impartiality, of being at once in Law (methodical) and in flow - vinyasa - strength and flexibility...

...let go of lack of clarity and distraction, by being present, methodical, clear, heart to heart from a place of Law...so this would mean going with a list of criteria to car salesman, then taking the vehicle to a trusted mechanic, getting a clear opinion - it would mean then negotiating a price, instead of working on a price for something that is a broken piece of asphalt passed as gold...

...being present and clear in the heart to heart means working, doing the work in Quiet...herbal medicines, bodywork, laxatives, cooking...aligning with the Always by supporting others...as without so within, your hurt is in the universe, and by helping the hurt in the universe heal, and those who inflict hurt (as they are hurt), we heal the past and the future...