The universe showed me a metaphor that really brought it all home for me as I waited in my car yesterday. Though it was rather disturbing, I would like to share it with you all now and if you know yourself as one who is easily upset, please do not read any further.
I saw a boy hugging a leashed dog on an empty street corner.
The dog was restless and the boy held the animal harder.
The boy stood up and tied the free end of the dog's leash around his own neck. Inevitably, the dog began to move and the boy cried out yet did not untie the leash which was now effectively strangling the boy. In fact, the boy turned to face the opposite direction of the dog's motion and began kicking and screaming as the dog, increasingly alarmed by the boys flailing and yelling, moved faster and faster. Eventually, after almost a whole city block, the boy untied the improvised noose and beat the dog violently with it.
There is nothing that we fear and hate that did not begin with ourselves.
May we now look into our own roles, invest in life and bring our forces home to renew and rebuild this country.
It all starts and stops here.
Let there be peace,
p
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Recognizing Mother Nature
Today I read one of the most inspiring articles I've laid eyes upon in some time, possibly in my entire life. In this article I learned that Bolivia is set to pass a law that gives Pachamama (Mother Nature) the same rights as an individual. It's about effin time y'all. Corporations have been reaping the benefits of such recognition for years and the results, for the most part, have not been positive for anyone/anything else, especially the environment.
We've created the most powerful and egocentric forces on this planet from our own fears of scarcity and these Titans of egoic selfishness are pummeling the very surroundings that allow us to exist. I'll take full accountability for this as the majority of these corporations were created to fulfill desires that I fueled with my own thoughts of lack/craving. Now I choose differently.
I'm 100% ready to provide the source of all that we walk through, stand upon, swim in, dance amongst, sing along, play with, breathe in and consume the same rights (if not more)than any other entity recognized by international law and I'm grateful for Bolivia's choice to take this first vital step toward a viable future for all.
Spread the word Y'all,
Mama's been recognized and acknowledgment makes all the difference.
Blessings to all beings,
p
We've created the most powerful and egocentric forces on this planet from our own fears of scarcity and these Titans of egoic selfishness are pummeling the very surroundings that allow us to exist. I'll take full accountability for this as the majority of these corporations were created to fulfill desires that I fueled with my own thoughts of lack/craving. Now I choose differently.
I'm 100% ready to provide the source of all that we walk through, stand upon, swim in, dance amongst, sing along, play with, breathe in and consume the same rights (if not more)than any other entity recognized by international law and I'm grateful for Bolivia's choice to take this first vital step toward a viable future for all.
Spread the word Y'all,
Mama's been recognized and acknowledgment makes all the difference.
Blessings to all beings,
p
Monday, April 4, 2011
...Passing, Arising and Passing, Arising...
Freshly reintroduced to the deluge of verbal communication that is my life in Los Angeles, I'm seriously appreciative that I chose to attend the meditation course I mentioned in my previous post.
In the wordless company of my cosmic brothas and sistas I entered through a passage of breath into a rodeo of focus with the bucking horse of my own wild mind.
This may of been one of the best choices I've made yet this life.
As the horse became tame enough to guide along the path, the journey became a fiercely dynamic flow of sensations, ceaselessly changing and offering the rider a rare opportunity to reconstruct unconcious reactions at the root level.
Any words I arrange on here will not do the experience justice, so I leave it at that. Acknowledging the depth of it all and voicing gratitude for the new friends I made in silence these past 11 days as I proceed along the path with Love in my heart and a clearer head.
*On a side note*
the course was taught simultaneously in Khmer, the language of Cambodia, and my awesome sister whose birthday is today will be spending her honeymoon there next month. On the last day of the course I asked the Cambodian monk who took the course with us if he'd extend a blessing in Khmer to my sister and her equally awesome fiancee. He said yes and the video below is the blessing.
Love to all!
p
In the wordless company of my cosmic brothas and sistas I entered through a passage of breath into a rodeo of focus with the bucking horse of my own wild mind.
This may of been one of the best choices I've made yet this life.
As the horse became tame enough to guide along the path, the journey became a fiercely dynamic flow of sensations, ceaselessly changing and offering the rider a rare opportunity to reconstruct unconcious reactions at the root level.
Any words I arrange on here will not do the experience justice, so I leave it at that. Acknowledging the depth of it all and voicing gratitude for the new friends I made in silence these past 11 days as I proceed along the path with Love in my heart and a clearer head.
*On a side note*
the course was taught simultaneously in Khmer, the language of Cambodia, and my awesome sister whose birthday is today will be spending her honeymoon there next month. On the last day of the course I asked the Cambodian monk who took the course with us if he'd extend a blessing in Khmer to my sister and her equally awesome fiancee. He said yes and the video below is the blessing.
Love to all!
p
Monday, March 21, 2011
More Changes
Hey Everybody,
It's amazing how much can happen in two weeks.
As the world has continued to shift ever more rapidly on deeper levels, I've found it more and more challenging to return to the space between breaths where creation lives.
Last week, during a beautiful show at The Hotel Cafe joined by some of my favorite artists, I finally began to heal some ancient wounds that had been unearthed these past 3 years. Emerging from this Love Bath grateful for my community and empowered by the direction we've collectively chosen, I felt called to go deeper within and as it just so happens I was notified the following day of my acceptance into a 10 day Vipassana meditation course.
So...
As I set off into the deep, I just wanted to check in and say Thanks for being a part of it all. There's so much more to come and I look forward to sharing it together.
Love Y'all,
p
It's amazing how much can happen in two weeks.
As the world has continued to shift ever more rapidly on deeper levels, I've found it more and more challenging to return to the space between breaths where creation lives.
Last week, during a beautiful show at The Hotel Cafe joined by some of my favorite artists, I finally began to heal some ancient wounds that had been unearthed these past 3 years. Emerging from this Love Bath grateful for my community and empowered by the direction we've collectively chosen, I felt called to go deeper within and as it just so happens I was notified the following day of my acceptance into a 10 day Vipassana meditation course.
So...
As I set off into the deep, I just wanted to check in and say Thanks for being a part of it all. There's so much more to come and I look forward to sharing it together.
Love Y'all,
p
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Grateful to be reminded and aware... again...
Today I woke up fully aware of the amazing people that I love in my life. In Texas, The US and The World.
In the 2 years I've called Los Angeles my home I've known periods of time where, contrary to the truth of the matter, I felt very alone and unsupported.
As that illusion has faded away, I've had the opportunity to step into a life where I'm literally surrounded by magical and beautiful human beings whom I'm honored to know as my friends.
So in the spirit of recognition and acknowledgment,
I'm voicing my appreciation here.
I thought of listing everyone specifically and though I may do something like that in a future post, today I choose to say this:
Whether we are reading/writing this from a place of pure elation or
a space of deep depression the distance between us is still nothing.
Consciousness in a sea of itself simply is one.
No matter how far away and separate we think we are from one another our relationship to what we want and what we fear, to our loved ones and ourselves is always the same,
a relationship determined by choice and focus.
To all I am blessed to Love,
Thank you for showing up in my practice and reminding me of this again and again.
Love y'all,
p
Monday, February 28, 2011
The practice continues...
This month has been one of deep change both inside and out for me.
The tail end of last month officially marked my year anniversary of living on the boat and with that came a flood of memories and emotions like an autobiographical montage. It's amazing how one can go so far and in a moment feel that there is no distance at all between the breath they're drawing in now and the breath they exhaled a year ago. I know that that's not the case. I know that I'm a million breaths away from where I was a year ago. I know that I'm grateful for the progression of life and that I choose where my mind resides in time.
During this passage I wound up with some serious chest funk and I was told not to stay on the boat till spring as the cold damp air apparently was hindering my return to full health.
So, as I've been surfin couches instead of waves, doctors orders,
I've seen Tunisia, Egypt and Libya (in the media) face their shadows and in the case of the first two, subsequently emerge into a new model of being. This has been truly inspiring and I'm ready to embrace who I'm becoming on the other side of this transition.
All in all, February wasn't just shadow work though and there were many things for which I'm very grateful. I shared a bill with one of my biggest inspirations Daniel Lanois and his new project Black Dub at Sunset Sessions, further developed my side project with Jessie Payo called The Owl and The Pussycat and wrote some new songs in the process.
I'll post a link to some rough videos of the new songs within the next couple weeks and I'm excited to see what March will bring us all.
My intention is to be in the best health of my life, all levels, by April 1st.
And so it is!
PS When I did a google search for an image representing shadow work, the one at the top of this post, the picture I found was followed by a quote of one of my favorite authors.
"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants help from us."
--Rainer Maria Rilke
Love y'all,
p
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
2011, the best year ever
Hey y'all,
I'm really excited about all that is possible for us on an individual and collective scale this year.
On the music front, there's loads of it coming your way as I'm ready share what last years growth produced through me in that regard.
After looking at my infrequent bloggin from 2010, I've committed to at least posting once a month.
And now off to my other commitment
meditating more...
Love,
p
I'm really excited about all that is possible for us on an individual and collective scale this year.
On the music front, there's loads of it coming your way as I'm ready share what last years growth produced through me in that regard.
After looking at my infrequent bloggin from 2010, I've committed to at least posting once a month.
And now off to my other commitment
meditating more...
Love,
p
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