It’s impossible to be 100% non-racist. Part of the discussion on race in America is to acknowledge that racism is rampant in every race. I love Hip Hop music, many of my heroes and icons are black, I teach in Spanish to Puerto Rican students, but I still feel uncomfortable when a group of tough [...]
Archive for the ‘identity’ Category
We’re all a little bit racist.
Posted in identity, politics, tagged identity, politics, race on March 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Who am I to criticize?
Posted in Spirituality, art, consciousness, identity, tagged consciousness, contemporary art, Spirituality on February 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After writing my couple posts about contemporary art I keep getting this nagging feeling that I’m wrong about my judgment… Then, again, I read Contemplator’s latest and felt all base and unenlightened that I was judging people, criticizing. So I will do as the Zen Master says, I’ll turn it on myself:
What is [...]
Mapping your suffering.
Posted in identity, politics, tagged change, President, suffering on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Because I believe that such is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, society’s suffering matches the internal, spiritual struggle within individuals. For example, look at our view of the President. If you hate the president then you can’t wait for the next ‘good’ president to come save you from all of society’s ills. Of course [...]
What is love?
Posted in Hero's journey, Spirituality, consciousness, identity, tagged God, identity, love, self-help, skepticism on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This of course is the number one question searched on Google beginning with ‘What…’ The answer to this question is related to the answer I gave to the previous post’s question and it’s also the reason why I’m admittedly a hypocrite.
I said before that the person within you who is capable of observing yourself observing [...]
Books to break the cycle.
Posted in Hero's journey, Spirituality, consciousness, identity, tagged consciousness, identity, searching, Spirituality on January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When it clicks for you that you no longer want to view the world like your parents or the way society wants you to it’s good to pick up a book that affirms your itching desire to find your voice amidst the others in your head. Guignole asked me if I had any book ideas. [...]
The leap requires a free-fall.
Posted in Hero's journey, Spirituality, consciousness, identity, tagged airplanes, consciousness, faith, happiness, kingdom within, nut-cases, parachutes, sages, Spirituality, success on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So you stop searching. You’ve decided that what’s to be found (success/acclaim/happiness) is not outside of you but in you. You exit the material realm, the realm of the senses, and you enter the spiritual realm. This is not a tangible realm. It is a realm of faith. It is purely the belief that the [...]
Why we remove ourselves from the world, from reality.
Posted in contentment, identity, tagged consciousness, escape, impatience, seeking on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just published my last post 30 seconds ago about removing one’s self from the world and stepping into the world wide web. But here I am still posting, still in front of my computer, still separated from my world, which is my couch, my living room, morning light entering the window, wife with sleeping [...]
Intimacy and identity
Posted in Hero's journey, contentment, identity, tagged avatars, contentment, identity, intimacy on January 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Surfing around on blogs one becomes aware of the spectrum of intimacy and identity that’s shared with the public. Avatar pictures are the obvious example. I understand the internet culture of keeping your identity private and I don’t have my real name on here. Some people share both their name and face which is comforting [...]
