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Are you a log or a crocodile?

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Are you a log or a crocodile? https://www.spreaker.com/episode/feeding-the-hands-that-build--71730334 We’ve been floating in the same economic river for generations, wondering why the scenery never changes. We talk about "Collective Work" (Ujima), but our pockets are leaking. Today, we look at the friction between our labor and our spending. In this Year of Ujima, why does it feel like we're still working for someone else’s dream? There is a tension between our desire for freedom and our addiction to the convenience of systems that don't love us. We want to build the nation, but are we willing to support the hands that actually feed us? It’s time to talk about the "Individualist Buildup" that’s clogging our community’s arteries and how to scrape it off for good. Call to Inaction: "The bird does not fly with another bird’s wings." — Release the need to borrow power from those who don't wish you well. What "convenient" brand can you sto...

Daily Toast- Kujichagulia 128171 (who is defining you & your reality)

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Great Kujichagulia: On this day we reflect not only on Kujichagulia, but upon the other principles, and laws that fall on this day.Today is not only the day of self-determination, but it also serves to bring us time to work with Justice and  the Law of Correspondence. Keeping with the theme from last week we will reflect on these principles through the lens of the quote from the "Book Of Coming Forth By Day", that has sparked all kinds of thoughts. " Awaken from thy suffering O thou who lye prostrate! ", we will stop the quote there, because this part illustrates what we need. Kujichagulia is about defining our self for our self, but how is this done? Unfortunately most people have been lulled into a deep sleep, they were cultured, and socially designed into a prostrate state. We have been submitted to a systematic process that strives to keep us unconscious. In the state of unconsciousness we experience self inflicted suffering. Now I believe that this point is i...

Self-Determination

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