Sister Unity - America story

[pablosrz]

I thought it was Amerigo Vespucci.

[TheWitchsHat]

Loooooved this message. Perfect execution and delivery of truth.

[skeletonmom]

Your makeup had me thinking...obviously the red, white and blue is like our country colors and flag. However, the red part of your face looks like you were punched in the eye. Could that be a metaphor for what was done to our country? Hmmmm....

[stevendryden101]

brilliant, your a revolutionary sister unity.

[karmatrinleyeshe]

Also: Your choice of music is brilliant.

Cosmetic persona at your level of poetic intensity. yes.

Thinking of the people from the future in "la jetée" (a sense of contextualization for this piece viewed as an artifact of the shreds of humanity left to our time)-- Chris Marker, anyone?

[karmatrinleyeshe]

Obama went to the slave prisons in Africa.

That was where African men and women were huddled in a crushing mass in a cell with a single open window far above their heads.

That was all they had, though they needed so much more.

And it was called "hope."

[jawa0621]

America is named after Amerigo Vespucci.

[SisterUnity]

Yes, but what does that have to do with my little fairy tale?

[jawa0621]

I'm just being anal because you said a different name. lol

[felixpetrar]

ah, there is 500 character limit per comment.

The only thing it comes to my mind right now is to take your examples one by one and check if they can stand but I don't know right now how to demonstrate elegantly my statement that attachment is a source of suffering. The idea is that I said it in absolute terms and you say there are exceptions. Do you think you are dealing with an exception ? :)

[SisterUnity]

if you claim that your idea has no exceptions, are you not attached to that idea?

[SisterUnity]

joking aside, I do understand what you mean about attachment and suffering. And detachment is very important. But rather than worry about what not to be, I prefer to focus on the Self, on That which is beyond suffering, attachment, non-suffering, and non-attachment. And which is, at the same time, all of them. "Na Shivam vidyate quaachit - if there is nothing that is not the Self, what do attachment and non-attachment, suffering and happiness matter when you realize you are That which is both?

[felixpetrar]

:) claiming something doesn't make me attached to what I claim. That would mean I stopped evolving and I am not willing to change my ideas to other better ones. I was just highlighting the fact that, at the moment, we have different opinions about attachment. Possible you are right but I am just looking for an example which could satisfy me. I didn't raise to your level of knowledge to understand what is that Absolute about which you are talking. Anyway, you are a nun and I am a layman. :)

[SisterUnity]

hee hee!  You said "layman" !!

[felixpetrar]

I think my joke came out funnier than I thought, beyond my own understanding :)

What the heck did I say? :)

[Botany101]

Interesting and unfortunately creepily similar to reality!

[wesker01]

a really love this video

[felixpetrar]

Don't be sad, you are a Buddhist. I hope you don't let yourself attached emotionally to USA, the attachment leads to suffering. Countries are born, they transform and die so please have peace in your heart.

[SisterUnity]

Hindu, actually.

Attachment leads to all sorts of things. What one does with it depends upon one's intention. Some attachments are very beneficial... again, depending on one's intention.

[felixpetrar]

OK, Hindu nun. :)

I would like to know when an attachment is beneficial? I don't have your vast knowledge and I was thinking that anything we are attached, we might lose it some day. (Not being attached doesn't mean not loving)

[SisterUnity]

:) I think you answered your question there... attachment to love, to the transcendent, all pervasive love, to the longing for union or for clarity and truth, attachment to the path to freedom, these are beneficial. I suppose for the final step out into total freedom, one gives up even these... but while on the road, they are beneficial for a seeker.

So much with yoga is "time & place" and using the game of the world to go beyond the world.

[felixpetrar]

There are many types of love and I think attachment and love are two different things. One example: a mother's love. Her love functions in such a way that she wishes that her child become independent and, sooner or later, separate from her. Very unselfish and altruistic type of love (I am talking about the motherly principle, not that every mother behaves that way). I think we should love the people, not the systems/countries. Countries disappear but the people remain there.

[felixpetrar]

path of freedom: let's say we fight for freedom but we lose. We suffer. What if we fight but we don't put it at the heart when we lost? What is in the past belongs to the past, good bye. Personally, I don't believe the humanity goes in the direction I like but that doesn't stop me to bring my small contribution in the direction I like. I didn't say in the "benefic direction" because all of these are relative, what is now still benefic for us, it will not be for the future people and viceversa.

[SisterUnity]

this freedom is both highly conditional. The freedom of which I meant to speak is the freedom that is the nature of the Absolute, of the Self. This freedom for which it is beneficial to long and become attached is personal not political. When you are totally free on the inside, the outside conditions to not hold you even when you are being held by them.

[SisterUnity]

but all these loves you describe are also temporary and conditional. I meant to speak of the One love, the transcendent Love that is the nature of the Absolute. The Ananda in Satchidananda.

[wakingribbons]

as always, sister, an insightful video.

thank you.

[leftmebreathless79]

this is so mysterious sister...I <3 it

[jeremymlad]

Thank you Sister Unity, I loved that.

[djwaugust]

hahaha, i never heard it explained like that

[BaileyAndBryansZoo]

excellent!

[ynotbegoodtoall]

Loved it!

[ScreamingBloodyGore]

Hauntingly beautiful.  Chillingly insightful. Very nice video.

[johnbstroud]

No comment! On second thought very creative video. Simply fabulous.

[ick0611]

Sister Unity, you've gained some weight...

[SereniT03]

Sister Unity, I'm so happy and comforted that you exist.

[Ch2Diacorda]

_luved_ the dramatic wheeled desk chair rolling around --er, I mean special effects at :45 - :56. :)

You look like you are in a chador. Iran solidarity, Sister Unity style? ;)

I hope you a good turnout for the performance!

[jackthayer]

what's the name of the song in the backround?

[SisterUnity]

Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump

[Shameless1AtL]

please remember to vote :)

[jarridhill]

Standing Ovation!!! You always have such a delicate way of discribing things! XOXOX