What’s the point? A good start,
A bad fall. Bright sunshine, broken
By patches of night –
Hunger, loneliness, all that you have
Is your soul and the spirit
In it –
You.
It’s not the door cringing,
It’s the stomach wringing…
It’s not a statue,
It’s a lonely person…
Be good to me, brother man.
Sister woman.
Be good to me.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Sometimes you have to be humble
And accept help when you’re down
But sometimes you have to be proud
And reject help, and help yourself
The first will save you in an emergency
And steady you for one day
The second will prepare you for eternity
And save you from extinction
Adversity is the friend of development
Challenge is the wake up call of genius
Obstacles are the partner of survival
Life’s true wish is to awaken us
Our time in this world will end one day
Father Sun and Mother Earth
Were just a temporary bridge God built
To teach us how to walk.
Endless Aid is a silent Killer
It is worse than AIDS and worse than Ebola
If you want God’s help along the way
First you have to be walking upon the way
The way of search and of exertion
For exertion alone brings self-preservation
Not help, not aid, not running away
Because you can’t run away from yourself.
Humility and pride are not mutually exclusive
This pride is not the synonym of vanity
For when you become too proud to take it
You humble yourself and learn how to make it.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
We all become google’s spy
Each of us a pupil of its all-seeing eye
Using us to watch us
In deepest privacy it will touch us
We no longer need to surf
To deliver data to big brother
Just look cool in their camera glasses
And you become their agent undercover
Sorry 007 it’s no longer for your eyes only
Everybody’s licensed to spy on society
On Google-majesty’s secret service.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Environmental and spatial beauty start with Art and Imagination. When you imagine it, draw it, design it and then outwardly build it after that image – then you suddenly have outwardly what you crave and imagine inwardly.
As simple as this may sound, this is the key to quantum leaps and to infinite development. This is the assurance that the boundaries of Genius will always be crossed and thus extended intermittently as long as we continue to march through Time. Space is flexible, and bendable to Imagination and Inspiration.
New Nations will always arise from time to time; and groups of people will receive new insights into outworkings of the fundamental thought, and find a new characteristic of Matter and of engineering space – that is, they will find an old fact but it will seem new to them because it will supercede the knowledge available to them in their era.
The abstract is the Petri dish of the concrete, imagination is the fertile breeding ground of reality. To kill a people, kill their imagination and make them into a nation of copycats. Praise them when they copy others, and give them prizes, awards and honors when they copy others very well. But when they attempt to be innovative, to produce new thoughts, to toy with new ideas, to experiment with new possibilities, then ridicule them.
When they choose not only to copy or be inspired by that which is trending, but to create that which is different and not (yet) popular, when they decide not to follow follow, but to open new paths, then ostracize them, mock them, sideline them, punish them and hurt their ego and do not finance them. At the very least, ignore them. Soon they will abandon the path of difficult authentic growth and blend into the game of joining the train and going anywhere the train is going, but never going their own way or birthing new things.
But if you want to uplift a people, then liberate their spirit. Because human was not made for the sabbath, but the sabbath was made for human. If time waits for no-one, then no-one should wait for time either. It is not imagination that should adjust itself to reality, but reality should bend to imagination in order to keep on elevating itself. Matter, at its highest, can still only be the cloak of spirit. As the spirit wills it, so the universe will execute it reciprocally upon the spirit. Unfortunately, even when the spirit is willing, still the flesh – the brain, the earthling in flesh and blood – is weak.
That’s why we fight wars, and seek to oppress, dominate and ostracize each other. That is the origin of racism, bigotry and extremism. This is the cause of the stagnation of human civilization despite all illusions of technological flight. Weakness. It has its origin not in strength, but in weakness; inner weakness. The inability to really imagine and intuitively perceive Paradise and then to build it on Earth.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
Ich habe schon drei gelesen,
Drei geöffnet, bin schon drei gewesen –
Drei Bücher, drei Schatztücher,
Drei Besucher –
Und habe getrieben, immer, Wucher
Denn alles mir Abverlangte
Erbeutete ich stets mehrfach zurück
Wenn ich beiße, nehme ich ein gutes Stück
Dessen, nach dem ich verlangte
Denn ich liebe über alles die Liebe
Und ich suche vor allem die Sehnsucht
Und ich fürchte keineswegs die Herzdiebe
Es versetzt mich nichts in die Flucht –
Alles kann ich verlieren
Ich werde es mehrfach zurück gewinnen.
Doch ich würde sofort erfrieren
Gäbe es Dich nicht mehr in mir hier drinnen.
Jeden Tag brauch ich Dich
Jeden Augenblick, denn Du bist anders –
Teil von mir, unentbehrlich,
Dich gibt es nirgend wo anders.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Egal wo man anfängt
Egal wie
Egal wo man seine Träume aufhängt
Schmerzen sie
Denn alles Unerfüllte jagt uns für immer,
Unausweichbar, ein geistiges Dilemma.
Politik und Wirtschaft
Arbeit und Wissenschaft
Liebe und Freundschaft
Schwäche und Feindseligkeit –
Wir suchen und suchen, aber nach was?
Der Gral ruft ewig ohne Unterlaß
Selbst die Kunst stillt es nimmer
Stets stört es uns, das geistige Dilemma.
Träger einer Dauersehnsucht
Nachts brennt sie heller –
Nur nachts kann Cinderella
Das finden, was sie sucht –
Ohne Sträuben, gib Dich hin
Fließe mit, egal wohin
Das ist Deines Lebens Sinn
Denn Du steckst schon drin.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
We might not inspire the heart
Behind every new pair of curious eyes
To new thoughts or new resolutions
But we can reinforce ourselves
In that which we already know and do
And that is as good a reason
As any other
To write into the book of life.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
Alles, aber auch nur alles
Alles, was Du Dir nur vorstellen kannst –
Alles, aber wirklich alles
Alles, was Du weißt und denkst und ahnst
Und denkst, daß Du kannst,
Unscheinbares und Monumentales
Alles, was Dir je einfallen könnte,
In tausend Jahren noch einfallen wird,
Auf Deinen Wissensberg sich noch thrönte,
Mit neuen Erkenntnissen Dich krönte,
Alles, was Dir Weisheit beschert
Und Dich Neues immer wieder aufs Neue belehrt,
Alles, was Du Dir gönntest und mehr
Alles, was Du einst hattest und findest aber nimmermehr
Jede Grenze, jeder Gipfel, jeder Endpunkt
Jeder Traum, der schimmert und prunkt
Und näher rückt, ewig näher und näher,
Jede ewige Idee, die noch funkt,
Alles Streben und alles Erreichen
Und alles Ankommen und weiter hoffen –
Entrungenes aller ent-inkarnierten Leichen
Und deren Zeiten, einst; alle Möglichkeiten noch offen,
Alles kann und wird übertroffen.
Der Du heute bist
Wirst Du nimmer wieder werden
Auf dieser reisenden Erden –
Kurz ist die große Frist
Denn es gibt immer Höheres im Lebensgetriebe
Übertroffen wird alles, nur eines nicht
Und das ist die einfache wahre Liebe,
Des Lebens ewiges Gedicht.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije.
An der Grenze wurde ich selten kontrolliert
Doch von den Augen und durch das Verhalten vieler
Werde ich täglich kontrolliert..
An der Grenze wurde ich nie zurück gewiesen
Doch durch die Blicke, die Worte und das Verhalten vieler
Werde ich täglich zurück gewiesen..
Aus dem Land wurde ich nie ausgeschlossen
Doch in dem System werden mir die Grenzen gesetzt.
Die Außengrenzen sind mitunter Schauplatz innenpolitischer Machtkämpfe –
Die wahre Grenze verläuft innerlich und unsichtbar –
Korrigierung: sie verläuft sichtbar.
Viele, die sich längst integriert haben
Oder sogar bereits integriert geboren wurden
Stehen noch an der Grenze und werden nicht hinein gelassen
Denn das Herz ist die einzig wahre Grenze.
Deutsch, das habe ich innerlich erlebt und begriffen, ist eine Art. Je nach freiem Willen artet es sich jedoch unterschiedlich aus. Daraus bilden sich zwei Gruppen: Die eine spürt den Deutschen in mir; die andere wird – so bald sie kann – auf allen Ebenen mich ausgrenzen.
Dennoch bleibe ich deutsch – auch wenn ich Afrikaner, Nigerianer, Igbo, im Ausland geboren bin, und unter anderem engagiert für die Entwicklung, den Frieden und die Verbesserung jenes angeblich so fremden Erdteils arbeite. Denn deutsch sein ist was anderes – ist anders sein. Ist eigen sein. Ist deutsch sein eben. Entweder bist Du es oder Du bist es nicht. Aber deutsch sein ohne Mensch sein – das geht nicht. Das geht nicht mehr. Auch das ist deutsch sein – danach strebten die Gründer unseres Geistes. Für dessen Aufrechterhaltung und Weiterentwicklung tragen wir alle Verantwortung.
Mich kann niemand ausgrenzen; ich bin einer unter uns und ruhe in mir – und werde daran zugrunde gehen, ich weiß. Denn ich schwarz. Und das obwohl ich deutsch. Komisch.
Aber es macht nichts, denn in unzähligen Herzen bin ich für immer Zuhause. Ich, Mensch.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
1. CONCEPTS
BALANCE:
Not too much to one side, not too much to the other side; and always give back. Thus you stay free.
MOVEMENT:
Movement, inwardly and outwardly, keeps you healthy, happy, fresh and permits new thoughts to enter into you.
DEVELOPMENT:
Creation is constantly pushing and changing via development in the activity of the Law. In all your works, also constantly push towards perfection through change, improvement, ever better maintenance and development.
VESSELS:
(OUTER FORMS):
The right form ensures success and acceptance. Cloaking thoughts in the right words too. And every non-grossmaterially-visible thing or concept needs to be encased into the right vessel for maximum effect and protection. Always search for the right outer form or cloak for anything you want to do or give. It ensures harmony.
BEAUTY:
Beauty is an inherent part of perfection. That which does not contain beauty – inner beauty – within it also cannot swing in perfection. Inner beauty is more important than outer beauty – the beauty of an idea, the beauty of a person’s character, of a woman’s inner personality. But true inner beauty also finds a way to express itself outwardly, i.e. must become outward beauty too (but not necessarily according to fashion, culture or society).
MEASUREDNESS:
The right quantity. Don’t over-do or over-give things. You thereby remain light and free, paradoxically, and will be more easily acceptable to and accepted by others without losing their respect.
SIMPLICITY:
(UNASSUMINGNESS) (CHILDLIKENESS) (BEING STRAIGHTFORWARD):
Simplicity is the Key that opens the door to Genius. When you are simple, you are open, you see clearly, thus you remain receptive.
2. INJUNCTIONS
FORGIVENESS:
Make the inner effort to forgive others. This effort to accept and dissolve pain within you makes you free and gentler with others. And more tolerant.
TOLERANCE:
Be accommodating to others’ slow and imperfect striving for what they consider to be perfection.
HELPFULNESS:
Be willing to help those in need as well as those who are struggling bravely to achieve something close to their heart. If their cause or their suffering touches your heart, make the effort to see how you can help, and then try honestly to do it.
BEING HAPPY FOR OTHERS:
(OPPOSITE OF ENVY):
Learn to wish others well and be happy for them when they experience that which brings them joy. It is a form of empathy, but not one-sidedly restricted only towards feeling the pain of others and/or helping those in need, which is also a deep injunction upon us. Wish others well, and rejoice in their successes too. It makes your heart larger, deeper. And you thus have more Happiness too.
3. RECOGNITION
THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING MORE:
No matter how high you go, no matter what knowledge or recognition you attain to, no matter how perfect your work is, KNOW THIS: There is always something MORE; more perfect, better, higher, realer. No matter the height you attain to, there is always something higher… and that higher thing s still not the Highest yet. So learn to be humble. You are not the Best. Even around you, someone always has something you do not have.
– Che Chidi Chukwumerije
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