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Entraining Right View, Right Story, Right Perception through Real Meditation, Artmaking, Decolonial Research & Nondual Animism

Brief 2-week astrology glance

i’m writing this on 4/28. the current 7-day tongshu Chinese almanac cycle is hexagram 18 - gu: corruption/possession.
this follows on the heels of the last 7 day cycle which was ge: molting/transformation/revolution - a week in which we saw a great moral uprising from the colleges and universities, the children of the elite, against their own systems of privilege and colonization specifically asking/demanding their academic institutions divest from the state of Israel and their shameless genocide and apartheid of the Palestinian people on behalf of a white-jewish-zionist ethno-imperial colonial project centered around anti-blackness, anti-indigeneity and seizing land and resources.

the last week was a very “ge” week.

this week we have a natural, perhaps predictable, response to that: Gu, the reaction of addiction and possession and corruption which temporarily increases our afflictive states based on unresolved and ghostly ancestors and precedent. the qi momentum of colonization, abuse & domination (based on fear/fragility) will also fight for its survival, at the expense of all other life.

be careful this week, and next, when the 7-day Gu cycle changes to song: dispute - a hexagram that describes divisive, litigious arguments which have no real compromise or basis in actual justice but uses the concept of justice to cloak its exhausting and demeaning actions.

now would be a great time to have an actual practice. a process by which you could discern Right Story from Wrong Story and perceive your perception in real time.

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Art as Story eating Story part 1
Clarifying Real Meditation

Meditation is an action of non-action, an un-doing which many interpret as being. This is perhaps overly reductionist. It takes quite a lot of actions to allow non-action to occur. Some of these actions are the preparations for meditation. Some of those actions are basic survival patterns of eating, securing shelter, communicating, etc. Some of those actions are of another sort entirely, which we could call recreational activities - artmaking and crafting for an inherent sense of exploration, discovery, insight and self-satisfaction.

All of these various sub-divisions and differentiations do lead us back to the same “place”, a non-place that meditation opens. Why is that non-place closed? Well, it isn’t, yet appears to be. This appearance of restriction is exactly the primary human addiction, we create it via perception and then reinforce it via the systemization of our beliefs and cultural ideas. Our “cultural institutions” & Norms.

We create stories, habitually act as if those stories are true, and cease to remember or even examine that they are even stories in the first place, much less that we or others generated them out of opinions.