Triad leap 1/3 - Wisdom Listeners part II

Perspectives.

How we see the world motivates how we move through the world. Growing up in a rainforest with the continual murmur of insects and birds has different dimensions than living in the silent heat waves of the desert. Growing up free to run wild through a thick forest of beautiful trees and listen to the wind swaying in the branches feels different from being born in a prison with concrete walls and only a small window to breathe a faint breeze on the best of days. Growing up with a full stomach or growing up hungry are world’s apart. 

We all come out of different traditions. Some of us live more in time than in space and others more in space than in time. Some of us can see the stars sparkling like jewels at night and others are blinded by urban streetlamps and industrial smog. Some of us have been free to celebrate our given cultures and others of us have had our ancestral wisdom, knowledge, land, and children taken from us. While some of us have learned courage confronting fierce bears in the wild, others have learned courage in the urban jungles of the city. Some of us have had loving parents and a sense of belonging from birth and others have traveled far and wide to find family, friends, and community.

POWER OF THE HEART

Our frontiers of knowledge have been expanded beyond all imagination. We have explored the vast unknown oceans of galactic space and penetrated the tiniest droplet in the human cell. We live in a world of extraordinary technological miracles, and yet, paradoxically, our own planet is becoming inhospitable to the very humans who have sought to master its mysteries. 

Mystical Anarchism

I started my career under the same veils and presumptions as most youth growing up in a Western, capitalist state—seduced by rationalism, consumption, growth, and competition. I wanted to be a lawyer or some such technocratic, middling career that would satisfy my immigrant parents’ desire for white acceptance and simultaneously uphold the logic of the system that put the whole house of cards together.

haiku

HAIKU originated in Japan among nature lovers and spiritual wanderers. It is based on pure economy of form and extreme generosity of spirit. In Japan, poets spend years contemplating a death poem of a few lines. With a stroke of a pen and a liberated spirit, good HAIKU reaches high and deep, connects experience and conscious mind. It is the sound of a solitary flute in a vast symphony of life.

Earth’s carrying capacity

Humans have lived on Earth for thousands of years and for the most part, they have kept their own populations in balance with the carrying capacity of nature around them. They understood that a healthy planet means that no one species can be dominant over the others. They recognized that all species have a reason for existing and that in a balanced environment, each species has its own place in a vast and thriving ecosystem.

SACRED SITES

A secret cave under a waterfall on a remote rocky island, a monolithic petrified tree where hills meet prairie, a calving glacier on the edge of a turquoise blue lake—sacred sites abound everywhere on Earth. The feel of each place may be different, but what they have in common is that each and every one of them is a living prayer to some form of divine consciousness. 

The art of dying

I come from a line of Sufi mystics that trace their lineage back to pre-Islamic times. We have kept our oral wisdom tradition intact, despite constant migration from Arabia to Egypt to Persia to India to Africa, and now as a global diaspora in hiding. There are many in my tradition who oppose the sharing of these teachings.

THE ART OF WAR & PEACE

THE ART OF WAR & PEACE

Is a jewel of wisdom and tactical advice, written thousands of years ago by the ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu. Today, the tactics outlined in his great treatise can be applied to the Art of Peace, negotiations, and leadership in general.

In his introduction Sun Tzu states: 

War is a grave affair of state. It is a place of life and death, a road to survival and extinction, a matter to be pondered carefully.

paintings for the future

A Revelation for Humanity

Throughout the ages, women have struggled to be recognized as writers, artists, scientists, and revolutionaries. Many brilliant women artists who were ahead of their time, are only now being recognized. Hilma af Klint is such a woman. Her courage and contribution to art has until now, made a strong impact on humanity.