Hello everyone, long time no see. I hope everyone is doing well.
I will explain and tell some things later about my own life, doings, and plans, but here I want to share this most important manifesto of the most divine spirit. I have much to add to this later, but to get this out is key.
I would also like to make many posts in the near future coming up. I have many ideas of things that keep coming, I just need the strength to do so......and I'd like to join blogging parties too to spread some relevant wisdom, ideas, creations, and tips. If anyone would like to suggest good parties to join, please comment below. I really would love to blog again. I know things have changed these past years, but I still think blogging can be a wonderful thing, especially for those of us simply wanting to share goodness. I dont' want any party with hundreds of links to every chaotic thing, but things that are specifically relevant to elegant beauty and Earth friendly living.
As for the purpose of this post, the meaning of (Korean) "Salim" (not the arabic) I have become very excited about. I didn't know in another part of the world there was a growing movement of feminine essence moving its peaceful essence through stealth. I think "stealth" is the only way we truly can move as being overt about making peace hasn't not worked for thousands of years. Yet it is very much alive, at the micro level, at the individuals level, at the womans intentional level, at the level of sublime peace at work, every hour of every day. These women are truly living the example, not talking, but living it, practicing it, and are invisible (unless they are blogging) hero's for Peace and Beauty.
I had stumbled upon a video that showed one womans ventures in her own life. They call this "vlogging", and this woman has taken Asia by storm with millions viewing her youtube channel every day. She has the most humble and evocative content I have ever seen. There is no talking to the camera, it is a visual (right brained, artistic, spiritual, heart based) and silent observance, a quiet sharing of her life. Some have subtitles you can turn on to read, some do not. I don't care, the music is gentle, I love the silence, and just watching and learning. The same goes for the other vloggers.
But Liziqi......I have never seen anyone so talented in all my years and I'd love to be as talented as this woman Liziqi is. She is a master chef, furniture builder, nature decorist, nurturer, embroiderer, perfume maker..... anything.....she masters it. Anything this woman wants to do, she does and she does it in exemplary fashion, nothing is done poorly. Her excellence is superior. Anyone who said "you can be a jack of all trades but master of none" was only a man. This woman is master of anything she wants. And I know of many many other women who are masters of many arts all at once.
This is her channel if anyone wants to watch, and I will post here just one of my favorite videos of hers......
After discovering her, I found others, mostly from Korea who are embracing the Salimist, the minimalist, the eco friendly, the Earth friendly, the nurturer, the peace maker, the beauty maker.....everything that is good in humanity, I have found in these women. There are many, I keep finding more channels of these women to watch. Later I will post those. For now I want to stress the critical importance of the Salimist and its meaning. This needs to be shared worldwide.
However it is a bit distressing and revealing of the mindset of the google search engine that the definition of this word "Salim" as defined by those Koreans who embrace "enlivening" and the "essence of care" can not be found with a simple search of that word. What comes up is quite the opposite. I keep having to go through loops to get this website that defines it, even when I enter Hyun Kyung's name.
So before it disappears entirely I want this indelibly marked on my blog.
This is my nod of deep respect and honor to the woman who wrote this and to the thousands and thousands of women who are living this in Korea, Japan, and all over the world actually.
From this website: https://funisbeauty.tumblr.com/
Many people here might not have heard about the word, Salimist.
So, simply to give you some ideas about what Salimist looks like, I share this manifesto created by Chung Hyun Kyung.
Salimist Manifesto
1. A Korean eco-feminist or anyone who wants to share the vision of a Korean eco-feminist. Saliminists make things alive, especially dying things like the Earth. Salim refers to a Korean woman’s everyday household chores, e.g., gathering wood, water and food, cooking, cleaning, washing, weaving, raising children, healing the sick, caring for the old, as well as for flowers, trees, wells, cows, chickens, dogs, and household spirits. Salim also means to mend broken things, e.g., pots and pans, shoes and hearts. When Korean people say, “Oh! She is a ‘Salim-kun’ (salim expert).” it means that she has perfected the skill or art of making things alive, e.g., feeding everybody so that they are all full and happy, creating peace, health, and abundant living for the family (the very extended family of all forms of life) and a beautiful living environment.
2. Also, a Salimist touches everything like a magician, a revolutionary, or a Goddess. At her touch, everything starts to smile, grow and become vivid, colorful, and alive. She loves to cook vegetarian dishes (but occasionally, she may cook some bad guys in her big boiling soup pot when she is really, really mad). She also cooks a vision for fundamental social change, gets involved in movements and develops strategies. She conspires like Latin American eco-feminists, “Conspiradas.” She survives, no matter what! She loves to clean, laughing children, polluted rivers, and the politics, and economics of dirty old men. Some Salimists call the smelly garbage of dirty old men “patriarchal capitalism.” She is an “inclusivist,” or “embracist.” She thinks that differences are “wonder-full,” good for boosting our immune system. Different plants and trees make a forest strong; people from different races make the most gorgeous babies, different colored threads make rainbow shawls. She includes everybody: men, women, young, old, poor, rich, outcast, incast, educated, uneducated, able-bodied, differently-abled, homo, hetero, bi, omni, and transsexuals in her party, in her worship services, and in her demonstrations against injustice, if they have good intentions and hearts. But she is a tough inclusivist like mother Kali. If she sees wicked intentions and evils hearts, she cuts off every evil head with her sword of Justice when she has to. Then she includes those beheaded evil heads in her necklace. She sings like a strong South African mother, “Now you have touched woman, You have struck a rock,” roaring at injustice. In the end, she embraces everything: good and bad, light and shadow, clean and dirty, joy and sorrow, suffering and liberation, anger and compassion, because they are good “compost” material for her soul, her meditation, and her poetry. She especially loves to embrace trees like the Chipko women in India, who hug the trees and say to the loggers with axes, “Over my dead body, please!”
3. Salimist recycles everything: paper, milk cartons, glass bottles, politicians and leadership positions, ex-lovers, ex-husbands, ex-Gods, and life itself. When people are despairing because revolution seems too slow to come, perhaps least not in their lifetimes, she laughingly encourages people in the movement, by saying, “Hey, hang loose. We can come back again and again, a million times. We just do the best we can do here and now. Then, let’s dance!”
4. Salimist is a peace activist who “thinks like a mountain.” In Korea, some Salimists are married. Their husbands call them “An-Hae,” which means “the sun of the household.” With her warm, compassionate and wise “Sunshine policy,”* she promotes conflict resolution, non-violent resistance, peace, reconciliation, and harmony wherever she goes. (According to some imaginative linguists, the Korean Salim, Hebrew Shalom and Arabic Salaam all derive from the same linguistic root, because originally, all human beings came from Africa. But this theory has not been proven.)
* “Sunshine policy” is the policy of the South Korean government toward North Korea. This policy made the ice of 50 years of hatred, suspicion, and violence melt a little bit. The heads of the North and South Korean governments met for the first time in June, 2000 after 50 years of separation. Both South and North Korean women thought that we could have had a unified Korea a long time ago if we had had a woman president in both North and South Korea.
5. Salimist loves women, nature, earth, and Goddess (or some God or god-like men such as Jesus, Buddha or Rumi, for a change). She loves rice, lotus, everything “feminine,” and “feminist,” according to her own definition. She also loves emerging “Salim-kun” men and everything flowing like tears, rivers, clouds, life energy: ki, shakti, prana, ruah, and menstrual blood. She loves drumming, dancing, singing, and loves making love. She whispers, “Life is an organism (or orgasm)! Multiply!!” Then she comes, she comes again, and she comes again and again like a Spring. Salimist celebrates her womb and the womb of the universe, and the creative powers of each. And, of course, she loves herself. Because of, in spite of, well, no matter what!
6. If Womanist is to Feminist as purple is to lavender, Salimist is dark green, the color of “En-Darken-Ment,” which makes purple and lavender flowers more beautiful.
* I give my sincere appreciation to many Korean women in “the movement of Life” and Alice Walker who gave me inspiration with her birth of “Womanist.” I also give thanks to Korean poet, Kim Chi Ha who provide poetic imagination to Korean word “Salim.”
Excerpt from Goddess - spell According to Hyun Kyung, 2001, 열림원
~end.
I will explain and tell some things later about my own life, doings, and plans, but here I want to share this most important manifesto of the most divine spirit. I have much to add to this later, but to get this out is key.
I would also like to make many posts in the near future coming up. I have many ideas of things that keep coming, I just need the strength to do so......and I'd like to join blogging parties too to spread some relevant wisdom, ideas, creations, and tips. If anyone would like to suggest good parties to join, please comment below. I really would love to blog again. I know things have changed these past years, but I still think blogging can be a wonderful thing, especially for those of us simply wanting to share goodness. I dont' want any party with hundreds of links to every chaotic thing, but things that are specifically relevant to elegant beauty and Earth friendly living.
As for the purpose of this post, the meaning of (Korean) "Salim" (not the arabic) I have become very excited about. I didn't know in another part of the world there was a growing movement of feminine essence moving its peaceful essence through stealth. I think "stealth" is the only way we truly can move as being overt about making peace hasn't not worked for thousands of years. Yet it is very much alive, at the micro level, at the individuals level, at the womans intentional level, at the level of sublime peace at work, every hour of every day. These women are truly living the example, not talking, but living it, practicing it, and are invisible (unless they are blogging) hero's for Peace and Beauty.
I had stumbled upon a video that showed one womans ventures in her own life. They call this "vlogging", and this woman has taken Asia by storm with millions viewing her youtube channel every day. She has the most humble and evocative content I have ever seen. There is no talking to the camera, it is a visual (right brained, artistic, spiritual, heart based) and silent observance, a quiet sharing of her life. Some have subtitles you can turn on to read, some do not. I don't care, the music is gentle, I love the silence, and just watching and learning. The same goes for the other vloggers.
But Liziqi......I have never seen anyone so talented in all my years and I'd love to be as talented as this woman Liziqi is. She is a master chef, furniture builder, nature decorist, nurturer, embroiderer, perfume maker..... anything.....she masters it. Anything this woman wants to do, she does and she does it in exemplary fashion, nothing is done poorly. Her excellence is superior. Anyone who said "you can be a jack of all trades but master of none" was only a man. This woman is master of anything she wants. And I know of many many other women who are masters of many arts all at once.
This is her channel if anyone wants to watch, and I will post here just one of my favorite videos of hers......
After discovering her, I found others, mostly from Korea who are embracing the Salimist, the minimalist, the eco friendly, the Earth friendly, the nurturer, the peace maker, the beauty maker.....everything that is good in humanity, I have found in these women. There are many, I keep finding more channels of these women to watch. Later I will post those. For now I want to stress the critical importance of the Salimist and its meaning. This needs to be shared worldwide.
However it is a bit distressing and revealing of the mindset of the google search engine that the definition of this word "Salim" as defined by those Koreans who embrace "enlivening" and the "essence of care" can not be found with a simple search of that word. What comes up is quite the opposite. I keep having to go through loops to get this website that defines it, even when I enter Hyun Kyung's name.
So before it disappears entirely I want this indelibly marked on my blog.
This is my nod of deep respect and honor to the woman who wrote this and to the thousands and thousands of women who are living this in Korea, Japan, and all over the world actually.
From this website: https://funisbeauty.tumblr.com/
Many people here might not have heard about the word, Salimist.
So, simply to give you some ideas about what Salimist looks like, I share this manifesto created by Chung Hyun Kyung.
Salimist Manifesto
1. A Korean eco-feminist or anyone who wants to share the vision of a Korean eco-feminist. Saliminists make things alive, especially dying things like the Earth. Salim refers to a Korean woman’s everyday household chores, e.g., gathering wood, water and food, cooking, cleaning, washing, weaving, raising children, healing the sick, caring for the old, as well as for flowers, trees, wells, cows, chickens, dogs, and household spirits. Salim also means to mend broken things, e.g., pots and pans, shoes and hearts. When Korean people say, “Oh! She is a ‘Salim-kun’ (salim expert).” it means that she has perfected the skill or art of making things alive, e.g., feeding everybody so that they are all full and happy, creating peace, health, and abundant living for the family (the very extended family of all forms of life) and a beautiful living environment.
2. Also, a Salimist touches everything like a magician, a revolutionary, or a Goddess. At her touch, everything starts to smile, grow and become vivid, colorful, and alive. She loves to cook vegetarian dishes (but occasionally, she may cook some bad guys in her big boiling soup pot when she is really, really mad). She also cooks a vision for fundamental social change, gets involved in movements and develops strategies. She conspires like Latin American eco-feminists, “Conspiradas.” She survives, no matter what! She loves to clean, laughing children, polluted rivers, and the politics, and economics of dirty old men. Some Salimists call the smelly garbage of dirty old men “patriarchal capitalism.” She is an “inclusivist,” or “embracist.” She thinks that differences are “wonder-full,” good for boosting our immune system. Different plants and trees make a forest strong; people from different races make the most gorgeous babies, different colored threads make rainbow shawls. She includes everybody: men, women, young, old, poor, rich, outcast, incast, educated, uneducated, able-bodied, differently-abled, homo, hetero, bi, omni, and transsexuals in her party, in her worship services, and in her demonstrations against injustice, if they have good intentions and hearts. But she is a tough inclusivist like mother Kali. If she sees wicked intentions and evils hearts, she cuts off every evil head with her sword of Justice when she has to. Then she includes those beheaded evil heads in her necklace. She sings like a strong South African mother, “Now you have touched woman, You have struck a rock,” roaring at injustice. In the end, she embraces everything: good and bad, light and shadow, clean and dirty, joy and sorrow, suffering and liberation, anger and compassion, because they are good “compost” material for her soul, her meditation, and her poetry. She especially loves to embrace trees like the Chipko women in India, who hug the trees and say to the loggers with axes, “Over my dead body, please!”
3. Salimist recycles everything: paper, milk cartons, glass bottles, politicians and leadership positions, ex-lovers, ex-husbands, ex-Gods, and life itself. When people are despairing because revolution seems too slow to come, perhaps least not in their lifetimes, she laughingly encourages people in the movement, by saying, “Hey, hang loose. We can come back again and again, a million times. We just do the best we can do here and now. Then, let’s dance!”
4. Salimist is a peace activist who “thinks like a mountain.” In Korea, some Salimists are married. Their husbands call them “An-Hae,” which means “the sun of the household.” With her warm, compassionate and wise “Sunshine policy,”* she promotes conflict resolution, non-violent resistance, peace, reconciliation, and harmony wherever she goes. (According to some imaginative linguists, the Korean Salim, Hebrew Shalom and Arabic Salaam all derive from the same linguistic root, because originally, all human beings came from Africa. But this theory has not been proven.)
* “Sunshine policy” is the policy of the South Korean government toward North Korea. This policy made the ice of 50 years of hatred, suspicion, and violence melt a little bit. The heads of the North and South Korean governments met for the first time in June, 2000 after 50 years of separation. Both South and North Korean women thought that we could have had a unified Korea a long time ago if we had had a woman president in both North and South Korea.
5. Salimist loves women, nature, earth, and Goddess (or some God or god-like men such as Jesus, Buddha or Rumi, for a change). She loves rice, lotus, everything “feminine,” and “feminist,” according to her own definition. She also loves emerging “Salim-kun” men and everything flowing like tears, rivers, clouds, life energy: ki, shakti, prana, ruah, and menstrual blood. She loves drumming, dancing, singing, and loves making love. She whispers, “Life is an organism (or orgasm)! Multiply!!” Then she comes, she comes again, and she comes again and again like a Spring. Salimist celebrates her womb and the womb of the universe, and the creative powers of each. And, of course, she loves herself. Because of, in spite of, well, no matter what!
6. If Womanist is to Feminist as purple is to lavender, Salimist is dark green, the color of “En-Darken-Ment,” which makes purple and lavender flowers more beautiful.
* I give my sincere appreciation to many Korean women in “the movement of Life” and Alice Walker who gave me inspiration with her birth of “Womanist.” I also give thanks to Korean poet, Kim Chi Ha who provide poetic imagination to Korean word “Salim.”
Excerpt from Goddess - spell According to Hyun Kyung, 2001, 열림원
~end.
I totally agree with you, Liziqi is such an inspiration to watch. Each of her videoes leaves me in awe. Yay!for more blogging!
ReplyDeleteIts great you know about her! I think we in the western world can learn alot just from watching her and seeing what real skills and talents look like. Puts american schooling in its proper (dismal) light! Thanks for reading and commenting anonymous.
ReplyDeleteSuch beauty in the food she created. Very interesting video. I so wish our American lifestyles were more relaxed and simpler. I just subscribed to her channel and will be interested in learning more. Thanks! Glad to see a post from you also. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you appreciate Liziqi's content. Beauty, Quality and freshness, what more do we want from food or life in general? Her latest one from this past week was about cotton, growing it and making warm blankets for her grandmother and her dog! I wish we'd learned these skills in school. Americans can learn a ton from those country people. I'm still learning from all the one's I'm subbed to as they show their lives and philosophies and I love it. They have the most useful and practical tips I've ever come across. One of them is cleaning with sodium percarbonate. I found not much information on the internet but the Asian women all seem to know about how to use this common ingredient. Since then I've been loving, literally loving washing my white dish towels! More to come.
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