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The many projects of arielelisha/leonrosen.com were produced through the dripping of my blood saving my goverment checks and student loan money while sleeping on the streets of San Francisco, New York, and most recently Jerusalem. It's a hard life and if I could produce a lot more I'd be feeling like the gifts I was given weren't just wasting away. I'd also rest assured knowing I'm working hard making the world a better place, forging alliances between myself and groups that are at such odds, it often comes to bloodshed. i haven't been blessed with an easy life, nor did I ask for that it should be easy. But the world is at the brink of destruction. Even if they get rid of all the bombs, people around the globe have forgotten what their spirits cry over. we dumb ourselves with intoxicants and pursue pat philosophies and limited exposures, please ourselves with the flesh, which usually means jpegs and donuts in a world where the true limits of the true person are quarantined by not looking at the sunlight. our expansive unifying power in God not even hinted at. Where we deny god the "you", rebell with "gods the yous", but ignore the only real truth in god the "usnessing emerging becoming oneness". A place where we belive we have grown up when we teach each other not to believe as we cynically suck bourbon in bars or tread off the miller at the local gym, obsering the others there and wondering what their lives are like or if "she looked at me," all the while completely oblivious to our own central unwavering suffering that we no longer believe in unicorns or the majesty of the human spirit as we encounter the miraculous. We have become what the early pioneers of science in Africa and medival europeans/arabic physicians never intended:
We don't believe. and we are aimless. But God the "usnessing" is completely singular. and not a person, or a thing. And God is not Santa Claus either. in the physically rapturous garden of eden the unity of God was called "us." The highest name possible, the most revealed splendor of truth and joy. Boundless Bliss. That was when all flesh was holy, nothing was not holy. That is our goal. we are so far from that, we'd rather leave the visionquest or sweat lodge or pesach speaking in the casual talk of secular dissafected disregard for the essential holiness of every single leaf and door handle. that what we have is something to invest in for generations. we'd rather praise the victories of pro-choice abortion legislation, or on the other side applaud the limitations on that choice, rather than join together and spread understanding. Are we really so calous that we believe it's just the mother's right. whomever choses to believe that better sign up for the course in children's rights, because a child is not the possession of either of it's parents. and on the other side, do we really feel that the only way to interpret divine law is to create laws that create dead mothers, crippled in corners of poverty with a clotheshanger in one hand and a flashlight in the other? how have we come so callous to each other's inherent humanity and the sacrifices we all must make to bring unity to the globe?
Consider the words of 12th century kabbalist, commentator, linguist, legalist, scholar and gentleman Rabbi Moshe ben Nachmon who said.
"when you sin, consider it intentional, when others sin, consider it an accident"
Some of us join a hopeless political campaign and muster vague supporters with great effort, putting ironing boards with slogan buttons on the front as if pure legislation could ever reap the rewards of thousands of years of human aspiration for universal joy. Some of us "return" to religion, in order to purport a life style that seems to appear like what was before the industrial revolution, and at least before the first world war. In this we are believing that, in the paraphrased words of Reb Zalman 'mere fervor could change the fact that there is a major paradgime shift in our reality taking place." These fundamentalisms are not merely accrued to "religionists" but go to the new religions formed by secularists, athiest whether we purport a belief in the ultimate cause or not. We are lost.
Many, nay, most of us just "livin our lives, man" and don't want to be bothered. it's enough of a struggle to make money and support a family much less be bothered about some grungy old hippy with a button stand for some anonymous candidate, or a political campaign of established parties in the US, britian, the bronx, new zealand, liberia, France. or in places where everybody's going out and marching, it almost becomes a farce in it's self, as if we've got done with thinking, now we just do what tradition says, fight the enemy and if we win then we'll reap the reward of victory, till we realize we have no vision and no God, and we allow ourselves to become slaves to ourselves and someone else, cause we've never figured out how to be free men internally, to live with freedom externally. we thought it would be enough if nobody made us do whatever. or shot our granny in the back in a firing squad. we say "see! they shot granny! now I know what I'm doing is right!!!"
but that's life. the demand God places is that granny gets shot in the back, we still have to use our deepest struggle, deepest yearning for truth and infinite connection to the divine source of emerging eternal guidance and mystery we term GOD. not get sidetracked by the attachments, but also not become cold and heartless.
"the righteous fall seven times and get up" psalms
So what am I saying, what does it have to do with my website. I'm not going to pretend. I need money man. I am doing what I can to save the parts of the globe and teach, and produce this album-movie, and It's been grueling trying to do it with no funding and a mind that doesn't accept the basic program that the other masterframes are blessed to support in the ways of clarity and function. in my way, through the teachings I'm working through and wrestling with, and through my music, that's how I give to the world' I've got a lot to give. What I've been able to record and perform is like a joke to me, the contents of this protofucntional website are like a pussilanimous farce. I know what those with me and myself could create if only we had a break, a little dough. I refuse to join the mafia of the record industry.
These are the people who killed jimi Hendrix and John Lennon, one through poisoning his nervous system with the intoxicants they produce in colonized south africa, another through the crude medium of a bullet. lets not be naive. Our generation chooses to pretend naivete, when THE MAN is holding a gun directly to our head we joke with him, and he says "i'm not holding a gun, don't be silly" and we believe him SO AS NOT TO EMBARASS HIM.
Our bigoted teachers in every religion, Indian, Muslim Palestinian, Jewish, Native Americans, Christians, Catholics, Black folks...They teach the old ways. We're evolving into new beings, don't you see that!? We the young of all numeric ages are smarter than them, we are faster in this generation, we have deep feelings, but our teachers wear the costume of honor and authority and we don't have any other guidance so we go along. We follow their lead, glory in their sacrifice, join their cause and even get fervent with being under their vision. But our vision, even though most of us haven't experienced it and don't know it's there...our vision is greater. it can save everything. all of us on the planet can be really happy. Then we'll see there's no such thing as being stuck in the laws of nature, for everything's fluidity will merge with Tao..
I can't tell you how many conscious young people become orthodox hassidic Jews because there's no other really serious community of Hebrew truth in our people of the "enlightened 21st century" brand. I'm not saying it's wrong what they do, but the level where a person supefies his/her mind to partake in something so real, that's what I question and find lacking. but must have compassion. many people descend into fundamentalism so as to rescue the immense light and miraculous power that exists there. There is something of the old ways. How many of us have had teachers who can read minds or see into our souls, know who we are at the deepest levels. Some are saints and some are sinners. But when we behold that...that proof, so to speak, for one who was raised to believe in science as a god. when a person sees a man fly in a tent in zimbabawe, or has a conversation in a sweat lodge in a reservation with a friend without speaking for several hours...when we see teachers who bring the light down from God's eternal nature into blessing in these ways, perceptions, we often believe "that means he's right," pr "that means he's a wizard and is wrong" how many of us have the faith to take the best part, the gem, but don't need to get caught up in the baggage. prophesy comes in many ways and in many vessels. they're not all good, and even the good ones, they always contain the personality and choices of the visionary.
And the highest truth of the bible is: with honesty and self work, and joyous repentance, we can change everything in the world on a dime.
The modern enlightened Yidden, and the modern seekers of all peoples, we no longer believe that the laws of nature are pliable to a lot of hard work, introspection and intuitive loving elbow grease which draws vessels for God's infinite light! It's time for us to take responsibility for ourselves. We don't have to rebell to rebell anymore. The childish movements of the 60s and beyond were childish because they were just born. But in retrospect let's remember the words of the great Dr bronner who said "WE"RE ALL ONE OR NONE! ALL ONE!"
We don't have to bust those in power. we're supposed to teach them, but we're so childish we can't even get our own act together to learn from our inner guide without thinking we are the chosen visionary and everyone else must learn from us. So we fight them as the Oppressors! They're begging for our instruction. You think the rich man's happyer than the poor? would you rather be happy or rich? I for one would like to be rich AND happy. That doesn't mean there's not some truly evil people in the world. But if the world merits it, events will transpire to fix that problem. if we merit it through constantly chanllenging ourselves and wrestling with everything we've been taught, and constantly changing. and all the while being fair in money matters, beyond what is called for, to always deal rightously, but not self righteously.
Rabbi Motti Berger of Jerusalem says that knowing that being holy, being good is in our self interest is a protection against judgment of others and self-righteousness.
Our generation needs youth with humility of all ages, who constantly question everything and who question themselves most of all. People who will die because they trusted someone who backstabbed them is better than those who do not trust at all, in the words of the Tao Te CHing
"If you do not trust enough, you will not be trusted."
one of my biggest concepts is "how do we balance truly believing in the most far out far out hopeful salvation of all everything, the most dreamy thing...how do we balance that with not being a sap, with remaining constantly questioning. this is the question of our generation.
I'm doing everything I can in this world to try to make it better in my spheres of influence, learning to be a rebbi. It says in the Talmud that those who are inspired in the times before the coming of the messianic age will also be crazy. I'm definately that. All I know how to do is make art and think about life and people and God.
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