Photo: Stacy Lanyon
What drew me was a chance to actually express what it is
that I understand. That is actually many things. I feel like what we really
need to learn here is how to communicate on a level where it’s more natural.
When I came here, the drum circle was one thing that was actually communicating
like that. It’s very primal. We were communicating. Everyone loved the rhythm. The rhythm was brought here, and we find a way to make sure it stays here.
I’m not whole with myself, so I have to create something around me that’s whole
with itself as well as whole with me. This is extending to every aspect, people listening to the circle, people drumming in the circle, to the way I feel
about myself in the circle. It literally ripples and ties within and outside of
itself, and I notice that if I’m not a part of it, I’m really losing out on
myself. I'm not just losing out on myself. I’m being selfish by not giving what it is
that I can share. This movement, it’s just bringing the best out of me. That’s
really the reason why I like being here the most because it brings the best out
of me.
Say you’re in a circle, and in a circle, you’re trying to make
sure everything is still in tune. Now, when something goes out of tune, it does
not mean that it’s outside of the circle. That thing that’s out of tune happens
to think that it’s outside of the circle because it’s out of tune. It’s the job of that which is in
tune to keep tune, so that the out of tune sound can find its way back
into it, so if we don’t hold our tone, then all that around us will not be able
to find a way back in. That’s really why it’s so important. We need to
keep the tone for what it is to be united.
I don’t mind any of this at all. I really don’t. I just feel
like there could be a much more organic way for this to exist. I don’t think
that fashion or any of this is in vein. People love this. We will still create
it, probably differently, but it will exist. What we like will exist. Nothing
here is in vein. The fact that we can build this, that’s still pretty
impressive. This was built by us, not some machine, but by us. We work these
machines. If it wasn’t for what we were doing behind these machines, this shit
wouldn’t exist. That’s what needs to come out of this. That’s what needs to
come back out of the world, the man. The man needs to come back out of the
world instead of this damn machine.
We don’t realize that we’re actually placing cost on ourselves. The world that we should be living in, that we love and feel we should be in, there’s no value to anything. It’s all its own thing, its own importance, no higher, no lower. It needs to be there. What else would it have been? It doesn’t matter what it is. This within itself is the singularity. We’re looking far, far past what was already here, and we keep turning it into something like this where you have value and stereotypes and labeling and judgment and power and greed. It’s ego, raw ego. I want an egoless world, a world where people can be like, “Okay, this is how it is? Alright, alright, let it be. Let’s just let it be.”
Each individual being should know itself. Know yourself. Don’t put yourself into something and say, “I’m going to put myself into that even though I know I’m going to get hurt.” Really? Really? What’s the point of that? If you know you’re going to get hurt, then be prepared to get hurt. Otherwise, you might as well realign yourself and keep going. As long as you still have what it is with yourself, that’s it, and then that’s what everyone will share, and after everyone shares that, that’s it, everyone is happy. It’s really focusing on yourself and sharing.
Interview by Stacy Lanyon
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We don’t realize that we’re actually placing cost on ourselves. The world that we should be living in, that we love and feel we should be in, there’s no value to anything. It’s all its own thing, its own importance, no higher, no lower. It needs to be there. What else would it have been? It doesn’t matter what it is. This within itself is the singularity. We’re looking far, far past what was already here, and we keep turning it into something like this where you have value and stereotypes and labeling and judgment and power and greed. It’s ego, raw ego. I want an egoless world, a world where people can be like, “Okay, this is how it is? Alright, alright, let it be. Let’s just let it be.”
Each individual being should know itself. Know yourself. Don’t put yourself into something and say, “I’m going to put myself into that even though I know I’m going to get hurt.” Really? Really? What’s the point of that? If you know you’re going to get hurt, then be prepared to get hurt. Otherwise, you might as well realign yourself and keep going. As long as you still have what it is with yourself, that’s it, and then that’s what everyone will share, and after everyone shares that, that’s it, everyone is happy. It’s really focusing on yourself and sharing.
Interview by Stacy Lanyon
http://buildingcompassionthroughaction.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/stacylanyon
https://instagram.com/stacylanyon/
https://twitter.com/StacyLanyon
http://stacylanyon.com/