Conflicted

Conflicted

Conflicted…
Standing by a well paved road
And an uncharted mountain
The road is quick and easy, just gotta pay the toll and move the fuck on
Though the toll buys bullets and the road is strewn in waste
Whilst chained souls float by in expendable skeletons
The mount looks like Everest but there’s clean air at the top
And a view to die for…
Everything has a home on the mountain
The birds, the trees, the rocks & the bees
The mountain takes care of itself
While the road just takes care of its wealth
Though the road is much safer it seems.
As the tollkeeper lurks close, outside of the greens
He speaks with all regarding your means
Of which he’s aware, his share
Of your beans
He speaks of his service to the weak and the nervous
Yet he lives in no shack and for good friends he splurges
The ones that keep the road operating
Those that keep lifeblood flowing to your nearby station
And he sits there awaitin’
With infinite patience

So how can I go from the road to the mountain?
For the toll still buys blood that spills like a fountain
again, for this reason, I seek this mountain
For the mountain holds health
Whilst the road does wealth
And only one of these I sigh, applies to the self
So I sat here conflicted, as the whole universe shifted

-Joel Van Dijk

Thoughts….

Thoughts on Things. Thoughts or Things?  Thoughts are Things! (?) 

So, as I sat today in the comfort of the Cyber Java Cafe on the corner of my Hollywood street I pondered in depth of the notion of duality. 

“duality”
noun
1.	being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; “the dichotomy between eastern and western culture” [syn: dichotomy]
2.	(physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory
3.	(geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry

I am concerned more specifically with the first definition, “the dichotomy between eastern and western culture.”  It should be noted that I was reading passages at my table from what most would consider a book rooted in “eastern philosphy,” The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.   In my songs and writings I find to always run into these philosopichal conundrums of duality, the left and the right, up and down, yin and yang… so much duality in this existance, positive-negative, male-female, sun-moon, night-day….  either you are or you aren’t.   From Northern music great emphasis is rooted in the down beat, and in Southern regions emphasis may be placed moreso on the Upbeat.  The North Pole and the SouthPole, Those within Your Religious Belief System and Those Not Within Your Religious Belief system and so on and so forth…

From this point of thought, or realization, or something, or whatever string of consciousness my perception tunnel is channeling, the concept of “Oneness” arises and what does this concept mean? Especially to a discerning mind that rationalizes and put thoughts and ideas into one side of the brain or the other, back to duality.  How does one wrap these two sides comfortably in love with each other and experience this union in totality for every moment?  I suppose on my search for this “One Truth” this may just have to be a question pondered and when the answer’s found the next appropriate question will arrive and as a possibility computer, my essence will continue this quest for universal conciousness, the search for wisdom.  My last question was “Why and For What Purpose?”  My personal answer from within to this question was, “To Express The Glory Of God.”  My translation of that:  Most simply put, “To Be the Best Me That I Can Be.”  To express my gifts, my being, my love, my emotion, my thoughts, my honesty.  The more of myself that I can express the more I release and shed from myself like dead skin.  If I make decisions based on the yearning of my heart and the tug of my intuition I do both you and I a service.  When I feed my body health, I reap health, and in turn empower others to do the same, The Body is synonymous with the Earth, per se the roots, The Mind synonymous with the stars, per se the branches.  It’s like the role playing video games that have multiple characters and when one reaches a new level the whole team becomes greater and overcomes as well.  And if fear is their king, to their demise as well.  So I say PEACE, so that it may be with I, so that it may be with YOU, that we are the same glory peering from one set of eyes to the next.  Keep your heart, mind and eyes open when we pass that we may share this beauty of union in every moment. 

“Truth is One, Paths Are Many”