...despair is rooted in uniforms that were sprayed with monsanto's roundup in identity-centralized politcos that led to the language of conquistador and then transmitted like vampire virus to the conquered who began speaking in -centrisms...
...somehow... every thing is up for commodification and appropriation... and when done by those of us perceived as oppressed... there is a pass... it's okay...
...we can make anything up now... and it's okay... i can say i'm indigenous and this is how we have been doing it for thousands of years... and you will believe me... and the identity politics promulgated through ethnic studies programs on the streets and in campuses make it okay...
...when i asked her why she cut people off... she said it was easier that way... don't have to deal with them...
... in babylon... identity politics and reinventing history is easier then dealing with reality... it's easier for indians to speak of all the wrongs in india, bangladesh, and pakistan as coming from the british rule... and negating the millennia of caste systems that plugged us in to a hierarchy from birth...
...it's easy... it allows us to bask in victim-ism... and romanticize a glorious past...
...it's easy to claim that all traditional medicine came from wherever you are from... and you may get a pass to do this... and you may have some pictures from ancient scripts to illustrate this speculative point...
...and for me... i can tell you that chinese medicine actually came from india... and acupuncture is actually a corrupted version of marma points... but that would be a big claim... a bold and arrogant one... a nationally arrogant one... highly speculative...
...and you can have my back on it cause i'm browner... poorer... etc... or you can go with Truth and love me... but not support the fiction i carry...
...i Know this path of yogi is steeped in a tradition that is thousands and thousands of years old... merely from the criteria of a euro-centric determinant of his-story = written history...
...the vedas... the upanishads... thousands of years old... written in meter to commit memory to legacy... to the words that came down from generation to generation for millennia prior to the written texts...
...i Know this to be true of Ayurveda... i know because my grandfather and great-grandfather were medicine-men in india... i know this because my gurrukul is from a gita family... sharing the teachings of the bahagavad gita for generations...
...i appreciate this... i appreciate the continuum... and with that said... no claims on it... but instead promulgation of a Way... and as the guru muhammad (s.a.w) has taught... the Way has to be universal... ethnocentrism/nationality/etc is antithetical to the Way of Spirit... causes separation... fragments One-ness - and produces maya...
...yoga/yogi is not nationalism... is not a race... is not a path to get deeper with race and racialization...
..yoga/yogi has roots... has fortunately been passed down from generation to generation for millennia... please recognize and respect this ... and if you don't... if you concoct whatever fiction rests your identity politics at ease... Know that Real will Always Recognize Real...
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