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The Cost of the Feast: Why Comfortable Chains Are Still Chains

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The Cost of the Feast: Why Comfortable Chains Are Still Chains Let’s stop lying to ourselves about modern success. We love to boast about the corner office, the direct deposits, and the luxury perks, but behind closed doors, our spirits are suffocating. We have traded our sovereign genius for corporate scraps, smiling through microaggressions just to secure a seat at a table that was built to exploit us. The ancestors from Malawi cut straight through that compromise: "It is better to eat mushrooms in freedom than to eat meat in slavery." August 21st holds heavy ancestral receipts. On this exact night in 1791, Dutty Boukman and Cécile Fatiman gathered our people in the dark woods of Bois Caïman. They looked at the plantation tables heaped with meat bought with their own degradation and chose the wild mushrooms of war, sparking the Haitian Revolution. Forty years later, on August 21, 1831, Nat Turner rose in Virginia because he refused to let his soul be bought off with crumbs....

New Definition of Power

"On mile 3" my spreaker radio show I discussed a new definition of power but left out the connection of humbleness to true power. To be Humble = to be empty...?
I have come to understand humbleness in this way from a ancient Zen story:

A Zen master was being visited by someone wanting to know about Zen. Visitor began asking alot of questions.
The Master served the visitor the visitor tea. As the visitor kept talking the Master kept pouring.
The visitor watched the cup over flow and the tea rolled down the table into his lap.
The visitor jumped and said "the cup is to full you are wasting tea everywhere!"
The Master replied "like this cup you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?"





Listen to show and learn  the power of emptiness/a void.
 New Definition of Power

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