no other path

It starts in the morning, well before dawn, the breathing and the sitting. The awareness of awareness for the sake of nothing else but being aware. The sacrifice of the self to the self. The turning inward of attention to focus on the burning core from which all else springs. Things must be this way; no other path brings fruit; all other paths lead to hollow desperation. This is the straight path of yore; all other paths are shortcuts to nothingness. Mahalo; om swastiastu; and aho.

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an initial apology

I apologize to anyone who felt targeted or hurt by the writings posted to any of the pages I manage. It has not been my intention to malign or damage any person, institution, notion, concept, or thing. The past two decades have been hard, emotionally, and it appears that I have been venting my pain through my writings. Thank you all for understanding, and for showing such guff. Mahalo, namaste, and om swastiastu.

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dreamstate writing 2 February 2016

Click here to edit.The entire dream is lost to me. I remember though, that at one point toward the end there was a very tall and lanky man chasing me through small and cramped hallways that were lit by an ethereal glow.

Only a few times in previous dreams have I turned around to see what menace was hot on my heels. Once, I slipped from the small and cramped hallways into a filthy room, where I found an enormously fat man-beast pleasuring itself in front of a computer. Upon my intrusion it had struggled out of its rolling office chair to chase me out again, a silent howl of rage spewing from its cracked and swollen lips.

While I was in the recent dream and turning to flee from the lanky man, I made eye contact with a handful of normal-sized humans who were standing about or rushing to get out of the way. One of them was a woman holding a small child. Most of the others were adolescents who appeared to be cowering in the shadows. Each of them, however, regardless of size, had eyes that were completely black, no whites showing. Their onyx pits flashed brightly at me as I picked up my feet and fled.

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on diversifying information

One way to stay sane in this topsy-turvy world is to take in a balanced diet of news from differing and unrelated sources. Personally, this author visits daily the websites of NPR, Al Jazeera, Russia Today, and the Guardian. In this manner, one is exposed to various viewpoints coming from reporters working in countries around the world.

This author likes to treat his news intake the same way he treats his food intake. By ingesting a variety of foods from the plant and animal kingdom, he hopes to take in as many as possible of the trace minerals and dietary fibres his body needs to stay healthy; by consuming a variety of stories from sources with sometimes wildly different points of view, he hopes to soak up bits of valuable information his mind and soul need to stay healthy.

Filter bubbles serve primarily to confuse the mind, isolating a person from such truths as may be discoverable only by reading between the lines of multiple different websites’ news coverage. Most Westerners prefer information that agrees with their preconceived notions, perhaps out of a desire to avoid exposure to cognitive dissonance. Venture beyond the desert of informational paucity by making the effort to take in more than one news feed, today!

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on flaunting laws

Should President Trump be impeached because he won’t relinquish ownership of his luxury resorts and golf clubs? If the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution should be at all taken seriously, Trump must be impeached. It appears, however, that the man who recently swore to defend and uphold the Constitution in its entirety has every intention of violating his oath of office.

President Trump’s unlawful behaviors are already appearing to have trickled down in the form of Alexandre Bissonnette, a white-supremacist, Caucasian terrorist who allegedly murdered six men while they were praying at their local mosque. According to various news sources, it appears that Bissonnette was inspired by the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric spewing sickly from the suckholes of fascist leaders such as France’s Le Pen and America’s Trump.

With President Trump blatantly flaunting America’s bedrock legal foundation, it should come as no surprise that his followers are doing the same, expressing their Islamophobia through both hardened boot-heels and hateful words. Why should the average citizen abide by the rule of law when the weakling occupying this nation’s highest post doesn’t, either? Why should the average citizen pay his taxes when Washington’s top mendicant doesn’t, either?

Perhaps we the American People should copy Trump’s example and do the following: stop obeying laws we don’t feel like obeying anymore; call anyone who cries foul of our incivility a liar; deride any statements that contradict our own as false news; keep heaping on the bullshit without ever admitting guilt, remorse, or compassion. Such acts would require us to stoop to his level, however, and few of us, it seems, are willing to lessen themselves to such an intolerable degree.

We still have more than one thousand, four hundred, three and one half days left in Trump’s first term. Get to it!

JPR / whorphan / americanifesto / 場黑

ye who yet

In the face of a hostile takeover of the U.S. federal government by a lackey of the banking-industrial complex, the People are beginning to rise up. Protests erupted around the country in the face of the supposed leader of the free world’s ban on Muslims entering the country. Presidents are forced to listen to the People only when the People make enough noise for a long enough time. This author salutes the brave citizens who are, as he is, sick and tired of this supposed leader and of the spineless career politicians who are allowing a proto-fascist to hijack America’s already weakened democracy.

Stand tall, ye who yet fight to stop the construction of a poisonous black snake; the hot core of America’s remaining virtue stands with you. Fight on, ye who see the sitting president for the fascist narcissistic hatemonger that he is; the eyes of Lady Liberty brim with joyful tears at the sight of your courage. By keeping pressure on this tyrannical fool, we may just force the greedy and the shortsighted to end their assaults on the core values of American democracy, which can be summed up as follows: inclusion of and respect toward all persons regardless of their race, creed, or sexuality; material support of all persons equally using the abundant resources found on Turtle Island, resources that all persons equally own; love for the weak, the downtrodden, and those who can but poorly defend themselves; and a firm dedication to the notion that all persons are endowed with the right to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Mahalo, huzzah, and om swastiastu.

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