Emptiness- Tao Te Ching

"The life which is unexamined is not worth living"
-Socrates

Today is tuesday, the 13th day of the New Year and while we are gearing up for the 9:00 show at the Annex in NYC tomorrow, we're also taking the time to question life and the mental construction of perceived realities which govern our society.

We here at the movement would like to encourage everyone to join us for the sake of yourselves and to read, examine, converse about, and question the eternal, intuitive energy that we call life and also our concepts of reality, that is to say, observed "life" filtered through the imagination of the individual and interpreted to the cohesion of the collective.

We feel it is important to think, or more accurately, to identify with the incessant streams of thoughts in our heads and to guide those rivers towards the vast sea of understanding and knowledge and ultimately, past the surface and into the infinite depths of being. If you take everything at face value, accepting the common, constructed consensus of reality, how can you be in control of your life if you don't even control your own interpretation of that life. Wake up from your naps people. SHouts to the homie Navpreet Tung, it's been too long my dude.

My present stream of thought flows like so: The structure stands to support content. The content of those structures varies and no two are completely identical. The tallest structure with the greatest content is perceived to be the most powerful, but ultimately, all structures are unstable. Content is important but superfluous, for what will you have left when your structure eventually crumbles?

Let it marinate.

And also, I just bought the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. It is translated as the "book of the way and it's power" and it is profoundly beautiful in the simplicity and depth of it's texts. I encourage everyone to find this book at some point in your lives and to read it with an open mind. It could change the way you see the world if you let it. Here is an excerpt discussing the importance of emptiness. It speaks to space-consciousness as opposed to our usual object-consciousness and it's SO REAL!


We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.
We turn clay to make a vessel;
But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.
We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.
Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.



And let that marinate until you come to the show tomorrow! Be there or be elsewhere but wherever you are, just be PEACE!
-A.WEBSTER