Today's Daily Zen says:
When water is pure and sparkling clear,
You see straight to the bottom
When your mind holds no concern,
No circumstance can turn you
And once your mind doesn't stray,
A kalpa has no changes.
From such awareness nothing hides.
~Han shan

A major problem with our folk is that the water isn't clear but murky and polluted with the sewage of colonialism. The imposition of Willie Lynchism into our collective consciousness has prevented us from seeing to the bottom of our destruction. Indeed, even today, most of our folk are unaware of Willie Lynch and the destruction that his evil doctrine has wrought upon our nations. ...Making many nations One Nation, bound by the misery we share.

But a quickening is happening and the stagnant pools of hisstory are swirling and the filth of lies are drowning as the clear waters of truth are revealing a new vision of who we were, who we are, what we may become.

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Don't Shoot the Messenger
To get unstuck as a people, we have to stop lying and protecting a lying posterity. The whole of the Diaspora needs to do a soul retrieval.

The attitude doesn't need to be one of enmity toward our enemies, but rather one of awareness and wariness. However, we do need to root out where our African-ness became their Negroism; when and how kidnapped Africans stopped rebelling against the misprincipled Thief - and study the process of how this came into being and also, how it has been maintained all of these centuries. This way, we may dis*cover how to snatch our souls back from the Thief.

When we talk about what they do - and have always done - to us, they usually get offended that we don't enjoy being treated like shit by them and what's more, will very likely be accused of being that which their behavior exemplifies. With this type of folks, it is the good American way of life to do ill toward others than themselves, but wrong to point out their ill doing.

It is madness. It has always been madness.

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Have An Ear

"A reflection does not see itself."
~African proverb

But thank Chaos that it can hear the voices of its ancestors. It offers an explanation of usfolk that is right on point in relation to this psychosis so many of wefolk seem to suffer from. Having been emptied of our ancestral history, we have no knowledge of ourselves.

All we are left with is the contemptuous view of those who not only stole us, but also stole our memories, our culture and our dignity. Orphaned strangers in a strange land, reduced to shadows reflecting the images of those outside from ourselves because we have forgotten how to look within and see we.

It is a good thing that we are a people who come from a tradition rich in orature and that the jelis are back to tell our story. Because though we may not see the full revelation of ourselves, we can hear the ring of truth.

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This Way Or That?
I suppose it's just a matter of perception; those that are linear will filter everything through a linear lense and those that are holistic will filter everything through a holistic lense.

So what happens when the lusts, greed's and desires of One, encroach upon the contentment of the Other?

Perhaps by virtue of being holistic, the Holistic' should discover their curve and ascend around to areas the Linear can never reach them.

And the Linear, who by nature of being linear, can only go forward ("Progress, son! Progress! covet-destroy-kill-take! Press ahead, son! Press ahead!") - should take a care to be certain that their path is the right path!

Of course, someone truly linear wouldn't get what I'm saying at all. ...But I ain't talking to them, no-how.

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Afrikan Jedi
A couple of maxims of African wisdom tickles my ears. I just know there is considerable perception of depth here:

One is:
The meaning in the adinkra symbol, Sankofa (return and take it) an Akan word that means, "We must go back and reclaim our past so we can overstand why and how we came to be who we are today."

Another is an African proverb: The very fact that we are seeking a thing usually stands in the way of our finding it.

Definitely, a feast of revelation all up in the combination of those two bits... Dig, it's like Yoda instructing Luke except in this instance it's, "Don't seek yourself; but rather, Find! ..Be!

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Alafia!
© 2004 By Kathryn S.