"I'm a professor of Hipology, Sir. I have been translating the work of
Poe, Shakespeare, Lincoln . . . Abraham Lincoln,
I just translated the Gettysburg address recently. Shakespeare is very interesting and very hip.
It has a renewal power to it, a tremendous sense of renewal. Henry Miller calls (jive) an International language because it takes the old masters and brings them up to the very instant of today and over the fence of now ". . .
– Lord Buckley
Ayurveda in Jive
I'se talking in jive so dis' can come alive
Truth gotta look good, otherwise why bother
Truth got’s to be able to move, to dance
An’ I do not mean no jacked up, stiff hipped, flat footed, suit-wearin’, republican votin,’ lip bitin,’ white man boogie
I do not mean no pranksta’ gangsta,’ baggy pant struttin’, gold chain hangin',’ sunglass wearin', de ville drivin', gun-totin', rhyme singin', bitch smackin', move bustin', black man neither
I aint lyin', I specifyin'
I'se testifyin' for the Main Man, the Orginal Gangsta
De OG was gangsta's
cuz dey was up against some real shit . . .
Like old age, disease, death and the loss of everything whatsoever and altogether.
An’ dey knew dat dey was not gonna' get to any ultimate issues unless they handled the little ones, and jus' in case you wonderin', health is a little one
So let me try to put it on down
Now Dis’ here a riff on Ayurveda, the ancient medical system of India, the Mother of all medical systems layin' at the root of Chinese Medicine wid' its five elements, Persian medicine, Greek medicine even Hippocrates wid de humors an all.
It was Ayurveda dat first layed out de' five element theory. It was Ayurveda dat' nailed the law of karma to the elements and put forth the principles of how dey all interact.
It boasted how opposites decrease each other and how similars increase each other
It put it all in the soup of consideration and in terms of health and disease an' allowed all sorts of motha's an chillin's to enter into and understand what be goin' on and how it all be comin' down.
You see, Dis here a system dat's old, tight and right. So old dat 'western medicine is just a very small, an' a very recent alternative
an’ for the most part wen' it comes to mos’ everyday diseases it’s a bad one at dat'
Yeah, wit’ Ayurveda, I'm talking old, old enuff for de’ Buddha to be practicing it an all,
old enuff for the King of his day, Le Roi Bimbasara, to give the Buddha what he,
de’ king dat is, held in highest regard,
an’ let me tell ya’, dat he did not go and lay down any jewels, lands, gold, silks or fine cars and chariots or other such stuff at the Buddha's feet
Naw, uh, uh, he gifted de Buddha with his own private physician-– Jivaka, who was the greatest Ayurvedic doctor of his day,
which occasioned so many people to join the Buddhist community lookin' for de’ free health care and all, dat' de' Buddha made it a law dat' no sick cat or kitty could come up into the sangha for the free medical care straight up,
Goin' on still to dis day
Now why dat' you may ask?
Well, you know de Buddha be takin-talkin’ some other kind of cure, liberation an all an’ dat' medical fiddlin’ round an' gettin' better health an all, even tho' good, was distractin' people from de' main rap he puttin’ down.
Shit, he know his time is tight an’ he only got so much livin' days to get his realization out an' de' philosophy therof into the world fore he dead an' other people start interpretin' his teachin’ an' wreckin' it all to shit
You see de’ Point Im makin' is dat’ what Jivaka did worked an it worked damn good. Der weren’ no side effect problems comin’ down the road, wasn’t any drug overdoses,
bad mistakes, death by doctor, Whoops, we oughtn't have done dat and all . . .
This shit just worked . . .
It was right, from the start an' it showed the harmony and principles, de’ food and actions of how to create health.
Dey’ say dat' Jivaka even treated the Buddha for some skin problem of too much heat in his system. Gave him some green herbs, changed his diet round and such, more bitter greens an' all.
Damn if Buddha didn’t use some of the principles of Ayurveda in his teachin' an' all,
bout's de law of karma an' such
But, I’se jus' droppin' names, certifyin' some street creds so that my testifyin' goes down easier. In other words, I digress
So, let me take a step back an’ get another run at all dis.
See der' so many ways to go, it's like bein' on de ocean - a man could go off sailin' in any direction.
But, der' is a star dat' I be guidin' by, an' jus' so you know an' can relax and enjoy the cruise an' by an' by hap's I’ll point it out . .
I'se wants to talks to ya' bout's Ayurveda, de' science of life, de' most ancient health system. Cognized, realized an’ testified to over 5000 years ago in India by some Original Gangsters called de' Rishis or Seers.
You see dese dudes had vision, an’ I ain’ meanin' no view of the mountain or de ocean or dat' 20/20 kinda' of stuff.
No, I'm talkin’ vision like Revelation and Truth an' laws of life. I'm talking dat' dey saw strong, full an’ deep into somethin’ so that it just plain gave itself up and showed itself to em' so that when day put dat' sumpin' down, they put it down right an' it stayed there, the first time an' every time
an’ it still down stayin' there, workin' then, workin' now an’ I'll bet you anything you want, dat' shit gonna work in de long years of history and future an' dey never changed a single thing, nope, nary a thing . . .
This is only Part #1. It will be continued in a subsequent post
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