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Beyond Death's Honor and Disgrace

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The Midway section of this piece is a post-millennial transliteration of Laotse's "Beyond Honor and Disgrace" which can be found in Lin Yutang's "The Wisdom of Laotse", p. 257, Modern Library, 1948.

Alpha To live beyond death we must know life beyond honor and disgrace. Not "must" in the injunctive sense of "thou shalt" but a more dusty must of logical integrity. Midway Those who know do not speak beyond communication as active listening. Those who only speak, without listening, do not know. Fill up knowing's silent apertures, Close logic's open-systemic doors, Dull awareness of smooth-structured double-boundaries, edges, Untie double-knotted tangles of conscience, Soften comprehensive consciousness to radiate co-encultural bleaching light-- This is co-arising with co-decaying unitarian mysticism. Then love and hatred cannot change our ecoing egoselves, Profit and loss cannot overwhelm polycultured Earth Tribe. Honor and disgrace cannot effect and affect and defect us. Therefore we eternally co-mentor power-optimizing regeneration. Omega How do permacultural farmers respond to bad environmental karma arcing back across all four seasons inviting devolution's sometimes too personal demise of crops, nutrients, healthy wealth of resources, seeds of hope? Why do darkness and death stalk, shadow us, cast dusky gloom across culture's future expectations, declaring each alien, too egocentric for life's eternal repurposing of economic probabilities, rationally co-redeeming praxis? What can we do, how can we respond to sub-optimizing stimuli advancing in our ego hearts, private minds, personal body-enculturation, weeding our language? Nutritional inflow and outflow streams intentionally co-optimize economics, willing systems of hopeful eccentric Win-Lose ecologies, consumption of mortality dissonant from infinite production, decomposition without active, yet peacefully contented, designs for regenerative response, ignoring co-redemptive resonance of co-arising universal intelligence. Monocultural intentions and pretensions seek total exponential supremacy withour our self/other marginalizing boundary where and when and why polycultural ecotherapy seeks zero-summed integrity of mutual mentoring primal relationships-- between id and supereco, between yinyin and yang, between right-inductive and left-deductive hemispheres, between physical-human Self and metaphysical-sacred synergizing Self/Other. Death's monopolistic economic assumptions, like monocultural ecological identity, more fruitfully and forcefully revolutioned as polycultural challenges to re-ligion re-sonant balance harmonic frequencies of non-dual revolutions reconnect dissonant decay with confluent cay, disformation with information where we have already become polyculturally found outside silos of over-specialized blind alleys, with what remains of inductive integrity's co-analogical potential. To live beyond death we must know life as eco-logical integrity. To regenerate as eco-identity we must decompose, release, redeem ego-id-entity.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2015




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