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[tulsiliveplants]

Jammu, may you forever remain safe and sound under the protection of the Divine Mother.

[ko-existing]

if you directly see what’s going on—this whole play of life as a “dream story” and not Actuality—then you’ll see that telling someone or not telling them doesn’t make a difference. Why? Because “someone” isn’t actually a "separate someone" and this whole dynamic is part of the same appearance.

Think of it like a dream at night: in that dream, you interact with others. Maybe you try to tell someone in the dream, “This is just a dream!” Whether they agree, argue, or ignore you, does it make a difference when you wake up? None of it carried over into waking life because it was all part of the dream story, just as their reaction was.

The same applies here. Whether you share this or not, nothing is ultimately “achieved” by anyone because nothing is ever actually happening to anyone. It’s all just appearances playing out, spontaneously, effortlessly.

You can decide to do it or not. No difference

The spontaneous and yet calculated "decision" to share comes from the same source as everything else, the same way a decision to eat, speak, or laugh arises—just because.

Traditional Swamis or teachers like Rupert Spira, Alan Watts or random people—they share not because they’re fixing the dream you see as broken and flawed but because it’s simply what appears to be happening, for the expression of it.

So, you can share if it arises naturally, just as you’d interact with people in a dream for the experience of it. But understand that their reaction—whether they “get it” or don’t—makes no difference to 'you', "Actuality", what’s always here: that foundation of "Beingness", unshaken and untouched by appearances.

If you really notice this directly, you’ll see there’s no real conflict, no real loss, just the flow of appearances. Whether they cry or laugh, agree or not, it’s all equally part of this.

No one will understand if you don't see it directly. If you see yourself to be one little human then ofc there are a million things you feel destined to fix. See the Foundation and everythingg else is clear.

Whatever you do with that, is still an appearance.

[kajra-re]

Shabana Azmi, Swami, 1977.

[krishnaart]

A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

[ghaas]

The Mystic Circle Murderer, 1939

[lifeinhellarchives]

"You're a fraud, Swami!" - July 31, 1998

[xatmaa]

[beefcakebambi]

Photos from swami's during the Christmas swell

[dustedmagazine]

Swami and the Bed of Nails — All of this Awaits You (Swami)

Swami John Reis has been in a lot of bands, but the ones you probably love the most—Hot Snakes and Drive Like Jehu — were joint projects with Rick Froberg, who passed away suddenly in June 2023. The two had made some of the most ferocious, tuneful hardcore on offer in the 1990s with Drive Like Jehu, and, with Hot Snakes, were the real thing in a sea of “rock is back” pretenders through the aughts.

Hot Snakes reconvened in 2018 after a 14-year hiatus for Jericho Sirens, and they were writing more material when Froberg died. All of This Awaits You comes from that set of songs, reconfigured for another band, with members drawn from Reis' storied history. Hot Snakes Jason Koukounis plays drums, alternating with Richard Larson from Night Marchers, while Night Marchers Tommy Kitsos plays drums. Reis sings and plays guitar, with Mark Murino on second axe. Joe Guevara, who played on the last solo Swami album, adds keys and synthesizer.

The songs rip hard, running fast and loud and full of hooks. “How Are You Peeling?” could easily be a Hot Snakes banger, with its ramping, vamping guitar riff, pummeling drums and ragged howling verse. It’s not complicated, but not stupid either. There’s a sweetening in the guitars just before the chorus starts that comes like a rainbow in a pool of diesel, and a wiggy little synth solo, and then it’s back to the gut-slugging pound and rush.

There’s a real—and welcome—blue collar aesthetic to this disc, a perspective sorely lacking lately even in the roughest varieties of rock. One single celebrates hot dog condiments. “I want ketchup and mustard and relish!” Reis shouts along to a very ear-wormy chorus. Simple pleasures. “Harbor Freight” blisters and rages and finds the income divide in home repair. Apparently, we’ve come so far that even dudes in their undershirts wielding power tools can be divided into haves and have nots. Shop at Harbor Freight at your own risk. As Reis gleefully explains, “The shit’s gonna break, the shit’s gonna break, the shit’s gonna break on you.” 

A few of the cuts feel a little bit by the numbers. Doo-woppy “Teen Hate,” for instance, looks at young rebel cliches from the wrong side of 50, but closes in a “yeah yeah yeah” cribbed from the Beatles’ Hamburg days.  It’s fine, but no match for the psychedelic rush of “Lost in Bermondsey,” which is furiously hot but also kind of trippy.

All in all, it’s another very solid outing from an artist who did a lot to define post-hardcore punk and rock (check out the Swami Sound Volume 1 compilation he curated in 2003). Sadly, there will never be another Hot Snakes album, but meanwhile we’ve got this, and it rocks.

Jennifer Kelly

[cbssurfer]

Overcast day at Swami’s

[kayin-junn]

Can't believe no onese posted this yet I've been obsessed with this since I first heard it ♡

[tulsiliveplants]

[kajra-re]

Shabana Azmi, Swami, 1977.

[krishnaart]

A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

[royalwingstattoo]

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[tulsiliveplants]

Look at this idol of him ahh

It's so beautiful, he looks so gorgeous!!