Meditations from Our heart

The world can be the essential model for our lives if we so choose it to be.  Peace and serenity can be found in the waves that we make.  We is not meant to mean people; rather we is an euphemism for every thing that exists.  We is aphorism.  From the ant on the ground to the lion on the plain to the red oak in the forest to the the ground plain and forest themselves. Living or not we all make waves.  

peace

listen; do you hear us?  do you feel us?  we are there; we can be understood' we can be made whole again.

why do you wage these wars?  why do you hide our voice?  this sound; this energy that we are making?  why do you distract us from the Truth?

the Truth?

ahh yes...  you all claim knowledge of the truth.  you wage these wars to defend your truth; but our Truth is universal.  Our Truth is real, and It is palpable.

Why don't you like our Truth?  Why is your truth better for you?  Our Truth is your truth... Don't you see?  We are you and you are we.  Truth is what our noise is.  feel our waves.  It's there; reach out; feel It.

Do you feel It, our noise?  can you smell It?  Taste It?  do you know It?

listen for It; for It is touching you... We are touching you, and you can not help but touch us.  

Meditate

this is essential.  to truly listen you must clear your head of all but Truth.  Find Truth

My God is your god and gods.  Don't you see?  Truth?

Truth is here and it is you.  

Practice what you will but know the Truth.  Truth is free, and cannot be sold or taught.  Truth is an experience.

Do you love me?

Do you love Truth?

I am truth, just as you are.  To love me is to love Truth, and to love Truth is to love me.  This is unchangeable, for we are Truth.  Do  you see?

Do you hear?

We hear you.

I'm a finely tuned machine

Hey Ya

Did you know that popular music can actually be pretty good?  Or that dance tunes can be tweaked to find greater meaning?

"Hey Ya" by Outkast is in fact an example of this.  That's right, the song that proclaims to women that they should "shake it like a polaroid picture" is actually a pretty good song, and not just to dance to.  It only requires a little bit of tweaking.  This tweaking is pretty basic.  It's known in some circles as making the song acoustic.  

That's it.  Take away everything but the acoustic guitar and vocals and you've got yourself one nice song (and change up the notes a little bit).  Don't believe me?  Listen to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2PRP89eqM 

That's all I've got... sorry that it's nothing substantial after such a long wait

Ecivda

What is a gift that everybody loves to give but nobody likes to receive?





Advice

Better received?

I don't know what Brian means when he says that Obama's attack ads have been "better received", but I can see a something different between the Obama's and McCain's attack ads.  There are fewer Obama attack ads.  Maybe that's why they're "better received".  On each campaigns official youtube sight, after looking through 7 pages of stuff from Obama, I had decided that I had searched enough.  I had collected 15 attack ads.  After going through the exhaustive search of McCain's campaigns site I came up with 12 attack ads.  This might leave you scratching your head.  Because, obviously, 15 is more than 12, and that means I found more ads on Obama's site.  Well that is true.  Except my exhaustive search of McCain's site was only of the first page...  That's right, I looked through 7 pages of Obama's stuff and 1 page of McCain's.  That means that Obama averages about 2 ads per page, while McCain averages 12, 6 times the amount of Obama.  Better received or just less negative?  You decide

BTW, both campaigns have ads that are false.  Obama's attack on McCain for hurting jobs in Ohio is false, and every ad McCain has against Obama is false.  Look it up at www.factcheck.org 

Elect Obama Day (And Everybody's Celebrating)

The day is coming. Time stops for no mouse and it certainly stops for no country, no matter how great its need might be. This is unfortunate because, at the moment, it is incredibly clear to me that Barack Obama is going to win the upcoming presidential election. Right now he has John McCain outmatched. He is above and beyond a better speaker which gives him an incredible advantage over McCain, especially in the face of the woefully ignorant American public. His attack ads have been better received, although whether they have more merit than McCain's is open to debate. And finally, he has been able to sit back and allow McCain to undermine himself. McCain recently named Alaskan governor Sarah Palin as his vice president nominee, which detracts from his argument that Obama is too inexperienced for office. Maybe something will come up between now and November, but I doubt it. Which leaves one finally rallying point for the republicans. We cannot hold less than 41 Senate seats. If the democrats gain 60 seats the republicans ability to filibuster will be lost, allowing the democrats to pass virtually any legislation that they want. Which is very, very scary. So I implore upon you, republicans and independents, even if you do not like McCain please go out and vote for your local republican congressmen. Otherwise America could be headed down a dark and terrible path.

Organized Stream of Consciousness

If you haven't guessed, I am a big fan of hip-hop/rap music. This music genre is one that has definitely gained a reputation for promoting sex and violence. In fact, one may be led to believe that every rapper is a weapon carrying pimp or even that inner cities like New York and Compton are filled with hustlers and gangstas. Now I cannot claim to have grown up in "the ghetto" or to possess a lot of "street knowledge". However, I would say it is a good assumption that not only are inner cities not filled to the brim with these drug dealers and killers, but many of these rappers who claim to be such people may not really be so "thug". In fact, if rappers made good on all of their claims and boasts record companies would have to make studios in prisons in order to make more records.

It is clear to me that many of these claims are made in the name of entertainment. Just as actors take on new personas when they film a movie, there are artists who take on a different persona when they rap. It is a great idea too, because it sells records. Nobody wants to hear rap music about a desk job, that just isn't exciting. It is commonly said that the biggest market for rap music is white suburban kids. White suburban kids find stories of the thug life exciting. It is a life entirely different from the one they live, and as a result it is incredibly intriguing.

There isn't really a deep message hidden within this post, it is more of an observation to be shared. Perhaps this observation is one that is perfectly obvious to you, and I am a simpleton who just figured out what you have always known. And if that is true, I offer my congratulations. But then again, a blog can allow me to simply make observations without any clear, underlying meaning. So rappers are entertainers who may not really be thugs, okay. What's the point? Well, there isn't one. This is more of a focused stream of consciousness post than anything else. How else can I explain the transition from rappers to what I can do as a blogger? I can't, but I don't care. Nor do I have to, because unlike publications, I answer to nobody. Of course I don't make any money and clearly not many people visit this blog. But maybe someday that will change. And hopefully at that time I will still be able to grab my computer and shift from topic to topic with no reservation. Otherwise I'll be giving up on why I blog in the first place.