reSilienCe

When blackness sheds darkness, there’s sure to be light.
Life is a cycle of joy and pain, loss and gain – but we decide. Do not allow the past to define your position in life, personally or historically; and be leery of people who attempt to sell you on your suffering and incompleteness. Especially those assigned role models and elected leaders who inundate you with images and ideas of oppression, hate and regression. Deficiency is full of profit. Your neediness is being monetized. As long as you are convinced of your destitution they have a job and that job is to keep you believing that you are behind, that someone has more, or that you are being wronged. Forever engaging you in empty external reactions that lead to an endless loop of disappointment and frustration. There is nothing without that can not be found within. The moment you become self-reliant they become irrelevant. Neither personal nor collective power has ever been found outside of self. Self reliance is not only a principle, its nature’s first law, innately tuned to the very vibration of creation. A breath, a bird, a blade of grass – a river, a rock, even an ass, all exist within their capacity to sustain themselves. Each day is new. Life is not happening to you, it’s unfolding through you. Let no one reduce you to a victim of chance, conditions or circumstance. Their primary purpose is profit, disguised as deliverance. You are complete.    

experienCe

flow through the day like tai chi
no thought no mind 
no effort no time
separate ocean from sea

with all things, blend
enjoy good health
still thyself
move from within

keep silent and shout
rise sleep
laugh and weep
breath in breath out

cherish friends relish solitude
practice fasting enjoy food
be naughty be good
stand where nothing stood

withdraw give
die and live


by K.Osei

finiShed

a sound, a seed
a wave, a weed

a breath, a blink
a sliver of zinc
a pulse
a child 
the thoughts we think

All things emerge from sacred silence, within the absolute blackness there is light –  life. Between everything there is space undivided, in that space lives the undecided, everything is complete. In this moment life is perfect. If not now, when. Joy and peace are extensions from within. One man trace dreams of external things, the other takes pleasure within. An inhaled breath amid the chill of winter as the southern sun warms my face, on a clear noonday staring through an open window from above; I remember myself and why.

by K. Osei