On Fame, Culture and Practice...

eye don’t usually involve mySelves

in fame culture conversations

and “scandals” because

eye have a certain

experience of fame culture

and eye do not choose

to engage it in certain ways

eye stay in my practice

the work is always in me

the ways those kinds

of conversations can often move

for me are a distraction

and can pull me

outside of mySelves

outside of my practice

when eye watch

the video

whole

unedited

it is nowhere near enough for me

to implicate the Dalai Lama

in the way social media

has been moving it

as of this writing…

that is my perception

the editing of the viral videos

are a certain crafting

eye do not know this being

though eye have relationship

with some of his work

more in my youth

and eye have appreciated it

eye leave it

to the Tibetan People

to the Indian People

to discern contextually

eye trust that their humxnity

does not need the insertion

of my western sensibilities

hierarchically into their

cultural experiences

eye actually would prefer the same

respect be afforded

when there are internal conflicts

within the Diasporic Black Community

that often people non Black

don’t have context for

and that lack of context

can move as a certain violence

but eye digress…

what is also true

we keep placing

humxn beings on pedestals

in our minds and hearts

over honoring them

their living their works

eye to eye

this is a practice of hierarchy

and we ache as

we are disappointed

again and again and again…

by the reality that

people are humxn beings

period.

Full Stop.

AND

we are all situated

in the cultural context

of all that brings us

into the right now

eye don’t put my faith

in romanticized ideas

of people eye do not know

rappers, popes, actors, priests,

activists, popes, Lama’s, preachers, politicians…

fame for me is an irrelevancy

eye honor people

on the same plane

as humxn beings

imperfect

and here as a communion of Now

nestled between tomorrows

and yesterdays

same as me

we all walk as the skins of earth

and the breath of life

in the meantime…

eye stay in my practice

The Mythology of This Dragon…


All Sentience is Holy

none above

none below

Eye Worship Consent

and indeed eye use

the word worship here

as a reclaiming of it’s potency

in a direction eye consent to

intentionally as. it pulls on

the waters of my ærotic

my deep emocean

which invites my practice

into my bodies

not just my mind

Shadow Work

as a way of life. period.

Personal Accountability

as path to liberation

embodied integrity

and honest actions

Death to All Hierarchy

relationship with the everything

to be lived as the wisdom of horizons

never vertically

may patriarchy

and all the isms

fade into oblivion

Self Reverence

(not narcissism)

what eye believe and live

within mySelves

will ripple as the truth of me

into every place eye touch

the language, the patterns

eye nourish

or defile

my bodies will ripple

no matter what my mind

might hide from me

to obscure any dissonance

from what “I” want

to believe about mySelves

but don’t actually live

Grace

judgements in any direction

are an irrelevancy

guilt, shame, blame,

are the spawn of judgements

and lure us from practice,

Self Reverence and empowered accountability

as truth

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