by The Hippy Coyote
I am rewriting this from a year ago. I've grown up a lot in the last year.
actZEN.com really helped with my transformation and evolution up the Buddhist ladder. I have finally come to an understanding of why my life has turned out the way it has. Love, is my biggest enemie.
All my life I've been very romantic. I was raised by a Scorpio woman who taught me that I could do whatever I set my mind to. That has given me incredible power in my life, but, because she was a woman, and because I grew up in the feminist revolution of the sixties and seventies--I presumed that held true for women also.
My mother defied the family system and divorced my father to go back to college and married a man who vowed not to have children and prevented me from ever having a friendship with my mother. My mother said that kids should be turned loose to sink or swim and its not the parents' role to protect or help them...
So, armed with omnipotence, pushed into the wilderness, I thought these Spartan ideals were the right way to think and live. I was wrong.
I kept pursuing love and relationships on this "equal democracy" concept and sought not to put my women in their proper place. That meant I was badly treated, cheated, lied to, manipulated, and the victim of the greed and immaturities of my women these past decades.
My father further destroyed my success by allowing my mother to take advantage of him like a sacrificial lamb. This didn't work for me either.
Lacking the proper role models for a secure marriage, I have drawn from my Kung Fu training and Chinese Confucian learnings to understand the proper harmony of people working together. A family or relationship is like any business: it prospers when people are well coordinated together and respectful of each other.
Just as the kids must obey the parents, the mother must obey the husband, the husband must obey the laws, and the laws must obey Nature.
These songs were written before my current enlightenment, so expect more from my next album. This album is the story of everyone in the world who believes that love will conquer adversity. Suckers!
Love was made up by the French so they could screw more women. It's a way of manipulating people's nature desires for sex into something else. Everyone has a desire to reproduce--or else we wouldn't. Relationships and people are a lot of trouble. Were it not for our unstoppable, uncontrollable desire for sex, we would not have conquered the earth and have our problems of overpopulation.
So, here's my album, being a normal schmuck (I've had almost a dozen Jewish girlfriends), as I swim in the turbulence of blind love in a pool of endless women, chasing a dream that didn't exist anywhere except in my mind.
I still believe that love can work, but like raising kids, you can't expect everything to just work out okay. It takes great effort to steer the boat of life or love in a straight line, and takes greater effort to get your passengers to paddle in the same direction as you.
Enjoy my tales of broken hearts and frustrated love.

The Coyote
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CD Album Title: "LEVEL 3 = I Want You To Love Me"
Artist: American Zen
Record Company: Shaolin Records
Release Date: September 21, 2008 |