8 GROUNDCOVER NEWS CUBA Where is the revolution? KEN PARKS Groundcover vendor No. 490 The revolution begins when you realize that reality is your home and it is ever-present. It’s easy to forget as the playfulness of the mind takes you on past reveries, irrelevant but brilliant distractions of the moment and a large range of future plans and possibilities. You may notice that you are not fully present. Every mistake or interruption is a reminder. If impatience arises, you have lost it. There are remedies to help you tune back in. Take a breath all the way to the bottom and relax. Seven breaths is a good marker. Allow a natural breath to flow. Breathe the rhythm of your work. Maybe the keypad is dancing to your flow or you hit the nail on the head and drive it home. Building a house becomes easy as we learn land sovereignty and tune in to the barnraising ethic of our ancestors. The Amish and Habitat for Humanity remember this heritage which is in our bones. If you use the above as a guide you will most likely discover that reality is revolutionary. Everything you need is at hand. Even a scam may mean “DIG IN” and get to the bottom of the mess and stand your ground with what you learned. That’s what Richard Werner did in his book “Princes of the Yen,” which is about money and power, and his podcast “The Deep State.” He tells us the simple truth about financial policy and the government/corporations. I follow him and Jack Kruse to show, as I would summarize it, that reality is decentralized in nature and that Mother Nature is our guide to this complexity. Mind training is essential so that we can rest in this natural state. There are many teachers. When you are ready, you will learn how to tune in. Study and experience will come together as you master how to do it yourself in the presence of a teacher. There are masters who can point the way regardless of where you are on the stages of the path. Groundcover News will help you stay tuned in. When I was preparing for a trip to Cuba, I focused on organizing basics such as shoes, seeds, supplements, herbs, solar panels, and greenhouse plastic — to be healthy and productive for the long term. When the American and Cuban revolutions meet, both countries will advance. Ann Arbor has a history of movement work that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. mentioned at the University of Michigan. You can see his quote on the first floor of the Michigan Union. “Students have a responsibility to participate in the movement.” Students for a Democratic Society did this and popularized “participatory democracy” as the slogan to embody. Unless you are an astronaut or in the Bardo (which usually refers to the gap between death and rebirth) looking at the vast open space, the earth is always under your feet. The Groundcover community is part of the global movement that is learning connection to reality. If the rhythm of the powwow (one was held at Skyline High School in March) is in your awareness, you are on the good road. I am back from Cuba now. I found several people who are earth-centered and promote what we learn from the moringa tree that food is medicine. It helped me heal from the bladder/prostate issues that intensified because I forgot the medicine prescribed by the urologist and was forced to use what was at hand. Turmeric helps; plants are our healing companions. The U.S. dollar is king in Cuba now. The community gardens have collapsed as healthy projects. That food is not going to the schools as in past years, but to export and government APRIL 18, 2025 Ken and his neighbor, Dunya, in Havana. stores which sell in U.S. currency. So many Cubans want to emigrate in order to survive. The global view is to be cultivated and every form of resistance will feed into a growing awareness of the debt slavery we all face. Can government workers collaborate with the people to move the money from warfare to human needs? People of the world, arise and throw off your chains. Start with a mindful breath and continue until the job is done. Remember Easter. You can kill the revolutionary but you can’t kill the Revolution. Stay strong, keep the faith. See you on April 20 at the Commons (all day)! annarborcommunitycommons.org.
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