Mahalo to Lilikoiphotography.com for this great tri-panel, taken in 2009 at my CD release event at HiSAM
What does it mean, to live life to the fullest?
To approach every moment with openness
Leaving a trail of joyous gratitude for past experience
Without fear of being what you are right now
The faucet of flowing forgiveness, left running
To entertain the idea of separation in only this: Your memories are not Now.
To relieve tension of its duty at the completion of its service to you,
To cast out assumption and doubt from your heart space, receiving possibility as your new tenant,
To accept responsibility for your entire experience,
To evict the victim, and invite clarity in its place,
To cultivate the courage to transcend any ideas which impose limitation,
To wonder as a curious fool, free of all concerns of appearance.
To retrieve your shadow self, that part of you which has been suppressed, and to learn to integrate yourself into the whole being you once were.
To forget to the point of remembering,
To free yourself from outer validation and agreement,
To lose the ability to judge, and release all addiction to emotion and outer acceptance, and your belief in being definable.
To place the center of life itself in every manifestation you perceive,
To exercise the self-discipline required to focus on consciously creating your experience,
To learn the value of authentic expression.
To allow your vision to be blurred to form, and all your physical senses to adjust their roles from dictators to bringers of a kind of experience.
Stop believing in time and things, as you allow yourself to fall deeper and deeper into the unknown,
The Mystery from which you appear.
Greatness is beyond action; it is felt in a moment of unclouded perception.
If you want to live life to the fullest, become empty.
© 2009 Makana Music LLC. All Rights Reserved.
This is a very illuminating article:
“If you want to be rich, you need to stop acting like you have money in the bank and start living beneath your means. That’s the message in the most recent book from Thomas J. Stanley, author of “The Millionaire Mind” and the “The Millionaire Next Door.”
Bankrate asked Stanley to explain what’s fueling America’s hyper-consumptive ways and unquenchable thirst for top-shelf brand vodka — among other indulgences.
Q: In your book “Stop Acting Rich…and Start Living like a Real Millionaire,” you say that rich people don’t necessarily act the way that the rest of us might think they do. In fact, millionaires are more likely to be extremely frugal. Why is that?…”
Sunday, January 24, 2010
2pm.
Featuring Makana, Cyril Pahinui, Ledward Ka’apana, Jeff Petersen, John Cruz and Kimo West.
Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center
1935 Manhattan Beach Blvd
Redondo Beach, CA 90278
Phone: (562) 556-4824
Visit www.socalslackkeyfest.com to buy your tickets today! It sold out last year so get them now!
This was taken from a letter I wrote to a friend who asked me for my thoughts on forgiveness.
As for forgiveness, it has much less to do with the other person and much more to do with one’s self, at least in my own experience. I can point out many instances where I felt injured. But what usually allows me transcendence is looking deep within to discover how I, usually in fear or insecurity, made choices that put me in a dangerous position, or that brought me an experience that I now look back on in hindsight with regret. What I’m saying is, healing is a gift you give yourself. Whether or not you feel “love” for a particular person is more a question of philosophical construct: am I obligated to love all? Is love obligation?
For me it is not. I don’t feel a direct appreciation for certain individuals; I don’t love certain people. However, that is the human part of me. There exists a higher aspect of me that is independent of my emotional and physical bodies.
It is from this place that I can, without difficulty, open beyond my human awareness to a grande acceptance of all, a bigger view beyond my “self”, and a resonant frequency of all encompassing acknowledgment of “what is”. This is true forgiveness: a perception that recognizes the perfection in all unfolding and comes from a place beyond the personal.
We are complex; we have both within us. It is up to each of us to choose where to “feel” from, whether to carry injury forward, and whether we can realize that our individual identity is one of an infinite collection of aspects of One Creation.
HONOLULU: DECEMBER 7, 2009 — Honolulu & Los Angeles-based slack key guitar virtuoso, Makana is en route to Washington DC to perform at a holiday reception hosted by the First Family at the White House. The 800 invited guests include friends, diplomats, and White House staff.
Makana said, “Inspiring the aloha spirit through music is my passion. I’m honored and very excited to have the opportunity to share my art and the unique heritage of Hawai’i at the White House during this holiday season.”
This is Makana’s third visit to the East Coast and his second to Washington DC in 2009. His April 3, 2009, concert in New York’s Sage Theater garnered a rave review in the New York Times; “Makana provided a textbook illustration of slack-key style … dazzling originals…” — as did his sold out concert at the National Geographic Society on April 18th; “He has taken this centuries-old tradition and blasted it into the 21st century”.
This latest honor comes on the heels of Makana’s two-month engagement at Waikiki’s Royal Hawaiian Hotel reopening the legendary Monarch Room, which inaugurated the hotel’s new “Curators of Hawaiian Music” series.
Makana’s recently-released CD, Venus, and the Sky Turns to Clay: The Instrumental World of Makana celebrates his 20th anniversary as a slack key artist and is his first all-instrumental, all-original solo guitar collection. Once again, Makana exhibits his creativity and diversity in this timeless display of slack key’s limitless potential.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
4:30-10pm
KILOHANA LU’AU PAVILION, KAUA’I (3-2087 Kaumualii Hwy, Lihue, Hawaii 96766)
Tickets are $25, or you may reserve a table of 10 for $300. Tix available at: Hanalei Surf Company/Hanalei • Tahiti Nui/Hanalei • Deja Vu Surf Outlet/Kapaa • Progressive Expressions/Koloa • Nukumoi Surf Shop/Poipu• Nukumoi Surf Shop/Westside • Kilohana Plantation. 21 & over
A Village to Village Fundraiser… to Aid Poutasi Village, Western Samoa. This is the 3rd benefit I am supporting with my music for Samoa this year- and the first one for Western Samoa, specifically a village that was devastated by the tsunami. The chief of the village will be at this concert (he is being flown in by Fred Atkins, the owner of the venue and host of the event), and I am assured that the funds will go directly to benefit the village of Poutasi. Also featuring: Donavon Frankenreiter, Ernie Cruz, Titus Kinimaka, Shilo Pa & Friends, Mike Young & Da Braddahs, and others.
Check out this video
If you have any questions, please contact Fred Atkins at (808) 652-0757. If you are
making a donation, please make check payable to Friends Of Poutasi and mail it
to the following address c/o Kilohana Plantation:
3-2087 Kaumuali’i Highway
Lihue, Hawaii 96766
Mahalo for your support and I look forward to seeing my Kaua’i friends there!
Makana
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Doors 6pm.
3 sets of music! 6:30 – 10pm
Blue Dragon Restaurant & Musiquarium
61-3616 Kawaihae Road Kamuela, Hawaii 96743
$29.95
Makana performs solo and with his amazing trio (Lono Kaumeheiwa and Lopaka Colon) under the stars at this GREAT venue in Kawaihae!
Call (808) 882-7771 ext 2 to buy your tickets and reserve your table today!
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