Gypsy Vocabulary
a snippet from the up-coming 'Gypsy Ashram'
Gypsies are the conscientious objectors to factory work and to all the soul-killing inventions of grim society...
Gypsies retain the good human sense to enjoy life.
They remember on a deep knowing level that life was not always like this...
They may disdain society's harsh ways, ignore, stand aside, do without if necessary, partake little.
Anything but let their life force be compromised by inhumanity in the form of self-important institutions and self-declared authorities.
Man is free. Man is sovereign. (of course that encompasses women, as well)
At times, they will suffer these things, but they will never ally themselves with them.
They will not forget. They will retain the truths at their core...
Do not be entranced by the causes and concerns of the sick culture that surrounds you. You were never part of it. You are not required to partake.
They say that the Gypsy vocabulary lacks the words for duty and possessions...
Can you imagine?
My first experience of this concept was on Cape Breton Island many years ago.
I lived down the way from a Welsh village. I tell people to this day that everything I ever learned about giving, I learned from those good folk.
If you were walking down the road on a fine day and the weather turned blustery,
it was perfectly acceptable to enter the nearest house-always unlocked- and find yourself a sweater or jacket or a pair of galoshes to keep you warm and dry.
You might return them or you might not... No one gave it much thought.
I was told that the Welsh language lacked a word for personal possessions.
No word....thus no mental concept.
You could say that a house or a coat or a pair of boots was ‘at me’, but you could not call it ‘mine’.
It was a shared life.
It allowed for the unfolding of kindness and generosity of soul...
These are needful things for a good life...
Consider the difference for those living at the opposite end of the spectrum.
How much energy and precious life force is lost to greed and overconcern with possessions?
I know a woman who meticulously destroys everything she discards so that no one else can have the use of her things. Old lamps, clothing, furniture, what-nots...
What madness and ill-will...
Why would anyone hinder anyone else's course through life? Curses are born of this...
As a wise Gypsy observed:
"Duty and possessions limit the emotional capacity of modern man...
They are the boundaries beyond which he cannot go..."
Bercovici expresses it well…
It is said in error that they lack the word. It is truer to say that they have a different relationship to the concept...the word.
I hope these words have awakened or reawakened something in you…something that may be needed in times ahead…
𖥞 𖥞 𖥞
(dedicated to the 8 yr old gypsy fortune teller)
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