Opening up a new leaf

Wow! the stars have not aligned for me since the beginning of September~ :-P

It has to be a cosmic wave I'm in. For so much up there was starting in March, there had to be a down.. Right? That only means it's going to go up.. sometime ___----___------____-----

Let me try to talk about the zen thought of nothingness... This maybe differ from what you know or what's actually true, but in a way new philosophies are always pioneered by suggestion and reflection... So here I go.

In the cosmic wave of things, I, like many others, are swept into a sea of consciousness that drives our ambitions. Somehow the need for something drives our dimensional urge to be misers of modernity. However, this is not the way of the universe. In space there surrounds every body a vacuum, in outerspace it is full of nothingness... Endless lightyears of nothingness. To think of ourselves as simply complex pieces of the greater universe would twist our reality. It would make everything, including ambitions, fall so far down on the scale of "What gives?!" that we may drop our lives completely... In doing so we would join the universe as we would be simply emulating what we know about it... Nothingness is simply acknowledging the greater truth that what is important now isn't really important at all.

My Zen thought revolves around the idea that nothingness is the order of things. Imagining myself as a spec whirling around the galaxy as a space explorer on mother ship Earth just boggles the imagination. Connection with that sort of enlightenment would resolve me to hypocrisy with my own faith, however... Application of the cosmos zen thought in your and my life is this:

1.) Don't sweat the small stuff
2.) The future is always *about* to happen, but don't be lazy; always be alert for the next thing!
3.) Everything untangles and sorts itself out if you let go

oh and....

4.) Don't forget your towel.


Music to check out this week:

first a note.. I've been changing my tastes from jazzy hip-hop beats to now Japanese folk music, not as in Japanese original folk, but American style folk music being sung by Japanese artists. I've found some artists that have really hit an accord and have turned me on. If you're interested I can send 1 song samples when convenient or you can google 'em.

Featured Artist:

School Food Punishment



















Details:
Label: JULY RECORDS
Released: 21 Nov 2007
Genres: indie rock/ambient/pop

They're a hip group with plenty of psychedelic pop-rock groove to them. When you listen to them it's like listening to a Radiohead like group that just "lets go of everything" and plays. I found them on the in-tar-web as always...

Also other bands I'm listening too lately:

Aiko Shimada- An Acoustic Folk singer from Seattle that sings and writes both Japanese and English songs. Very mellow and easy to listen to.

Tenniscoats- A trippy folk/psy/rock band with that mandolin sound mixed with modern sounds for a modern eclectic feel.

Nujabes w/ Shing02 (still)- Jazz/Hip-hop/Rap music.. mostly in English, but I digg the beats and the total laid back chillness of it. Since listening to Nujabe's latest album "Modal Soul" I don't think I'll ever listen to modern rap/hip-hop music again. (As if I did)


K~

~J out