Darvish Khan Writes

Christ chased the money lenders out of the temple. Muhammad drove the traders out of the Kaaba. In both cases, the idols of commerce and greed had driven the One God, the only God, from the Sanctuary. This is what the restoration of monotheism is always about.

But in our time, the goddess of progress has been enshrined everywhere. She was first widely worshipped in Britain, and then exalted as chief among the gods in America. And then the glorification of the machine and consumerism spread across the earth. Progress is history’s most successful  fertility goddess: her chariot is the car, and her temple the garage.

The exaltation of progress represents the continual rape of the earth and perpetual servitude to her high priests, the corporatists. Progress is a devouring beast. Never is there enough. No sacrifice is too great to honor and placate her appetite. Her filth and noxious fumes poison the air, fire, water and earth, yet we are commanded to lift our hands and voice in praise of the pleasure that her refuse provides.

The earliest civilization of which we have a literary record, Atlantis of ten thousand years ago as mentioned by Plato, was devoted to progress- until she devoured the land and the island-continent sank.

But in our time the Prophet has once again returned; He has returned to break the backbone of the machine age by the car breaking his bones. This was his sacrifice to save not only America, but the entire world from the fate of Atlantis. The cult of the machine will perish and the earth shall live so that the one God, the only God, will be praised everywhere.

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Karma is what you’re born with, and this includes environment. How you play it is dharma. Dharma is the integrity with which you face karma, and how this works out is what life is all about.

Dharma is to be true to your karma: the sum total of all past thought, word and deed, as represented by past lives. You cannot help but be defined by the past and its consolidation in the present, but how you relate to it, how you honor it, is everything. Attitude is everything.

Karma renews itself endlessly, like a snake perpetually shedding its skin. Each moment is the expression of past karma and the creation of future karma. And what you pack into the suitcase of this life, is what you live out of the next life. Only the Now is creative. The past is dead and only becomes alive in the Now. Likewise, the future is predicated on the Now. Only the Now exists. Only attitude exists.

The Now is creative because it alone can witness, because it alone can be detached from the corpse of the past and its reanimation in the future. Only the Now is alive.

All this is why Remembrance is the key. What you remember in the Now transmutes the past to become the future, in the Now. Remembrance of the beloved manifests the beloved, and is the path to be with him or her forever, in the Now.

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The new film produced by Michael Moore, Planet Of The Humans, challenges how we think of going Green. Seriously, how do we get off fossil fuels? Do we have the slightest idea of what this involves and implies? Do we cut down forests to burn chipped wood as a biomass substitute for coal and gas? How is Green infrastructure built and maintained without fossil fuels? The answer is that it’s not. And then what? Discuss this on the smart phone and laptop full of rare metals gouged from the earth?

This film very dramatically makes the case that we are babies prattling about collective suicide. And that there is a whole lot of disaster capitalism promoting delusional solutions.

What will it take for citizenry to grok the crisis of sustainability? People do not realize that the entire basis of modern living is unsustainable. And this is the problem. We can’t go there. We can’t admit that the planet can not possibly continue to support a consumer based lifestyle for a fraction of the present world population, which is increasingly concentrated in mega cities of 10 million or more.

The modern city is entropic. And so are the suburbs. Both only exist because of fossil fuel- energy as concentrated capital, and which serves to destroy a living bond with Nature. There is no way for a modern city to go Green. There is no way for a world economy based on globalism to go Green. There is no way for any living arrangement to go Green except on a decentralized basis. Only local economies can establish a sustainable relationship with Nature, a relationship not based on relentless resource extraction and degradation, but on living in harmony with the land and one another.

Going Green is going cold turkey.

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My recommendation is to follow this guideline: eschew any book or source material that spells Hafez’s name with an i, as in Hafiz. Hafez properly rhymes with Fez, not with fizz. This is most important because correct pronunciation is essential. If an author or editor can’t pronounce Hafez’s name correctly, it’s probably trash. It suggests that abstraction rather than sensibility is uppermost. After all, poetry is all about sound and sensibility.

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