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Life and Will

Lyrical Zen — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 11:53:37 +0000

Life is already flowing towards us and through us; our responsibility is to meet it intentionally, this is what is called — will.

– Lyrical Zen

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One Out of Many

Lyrical Zen — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:26:57 +0000

When we navigate the currents of the soul, we find ourselves within our ancestral consciousness. We are the composite of all events, all happenstance and all circumstances that have transpired throughout the multiverse. Plural in our solitude, singular in our multitude.

Our scars, are the braille of tangled suffering and empathy. Our imagination, is a living legacy of choice, a purposeful consciousness, a community of knowledge and practice. We enter every battle with great sorrow; and even greater compassion. We do not rejoice in victory — the more power we harness, the greater the need for humility.

Lest we forget the innumerable souls that hurt in silence; those abandoned by the moral barbarity of the world; those who have endured the deadening, routinized and alienating commodification of their humanity; and those who yearn for a meaning that transcends atomization, darkness, despair, illness and conflict.

Lest we forget the nameless heroes and exemplars that have transformed impossible dreams into verdant realities; the loving spirits who deliberately host our hopes and aspirations to cultivate moments of divine presence; and those who have sacrificed to create common destinies of purpose and meaning.

Under the aegis of ancestral memory, let us give thanks to that which gives us the moral vigor and permission to do the impossible in the journey to self-becoming. May our work be in service of the visceral freedom of others…

— Lyrical Zen

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Alone Together

Lyrical Zen — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:43:10 +0000

In a world often depleted of mercy, we must face a vast aloneness together. For those of us left with scant little but a dreaming heart, there is multiplicity in the meshing of our souls. If we awoke today, it is because life isn’t prepared to abandon us in the grave of recollection.

By accepting mortality as a precondition of existence, we enter an organic destiny of larger orders that exist within and beyond us. In the architecture of eternity, the responsibility that is our living will must be grounded in ancestral inheritance, for the body cannot thrive without a moral memory.

The role of the human being is therefore not to create matter, but to create meaning. That which has no substance, enters where there is no space. Nature creates matter – as ordained by cosmogenesis. Engage in empathic metacognition; learn to read one another by pressing your fingertips to the braille of one’s scars. Let imperfection be perfectly itself. Wherever one journeys into the self, we must bypass some wound, some unconsciousness, some inheritance. Once that boundary is crossed we arrive at the same place: a door of transcendental reverence and appreciation for the supreme experience of life.

We are, by definition, the bearers of a sacrifice; the time-keepers of possible futures that seek a shared love for the inner journey of empathy and purpose. It is our permanent nostomania that allows us to find peace even in the most hopeless of places – because everything we have ever done, was done out of perpetual love.

– Lyrical Zen

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