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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 Earth's more dusty must of ecological integrity. Midway Those who know do not speak beyond active listening communion. Those who speak, without first listening, do not know to whom they speak. Fill up knowing's silent apertures, Open logic's closed linguistic doors, Silent awareness arousing smooth-structured double-boundaries, climaxing edges Untie double-knotted tangles not not caring Soften comprehensive consciousness to radiate co-empathic beauty light-- Co-arising eradicated mysteries bright. Then loving honor and hating disgrace cannot change outside our inside selves Profit and loss cannot overwhelm Beauty loving EarthTribe. Honor and disgrace cannot effect and affect and defect Us. Therefore we co-mediate empowering communication. 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 Beauty's love? Why do darkness and death stalk, shadow us, cast dusky gloom across climate's future expectations, declaring alien-nation too Anthrocentric for Earth's eternal repurposing of rationally co-redeeming praxis? What can we do, how can we respond to competitive compulsions advancing in our ego hearts, private minds, personal body-enculturation seeding and weeding our language? Nutritional inflow and outflow streams intentionally co-optimize economic communion, willful systems of eccentric Win-Lose ecologies, consuming limited survival distinct from infinite thrival, decomposing without active regenerative response, ignoring peaceful resonance of co-arising silent intelligence. Monocultural intentions and pretensions seek total exponential supremacy withour our self v other marginalizing boundary Where and when and why polycultural therapy seeks deep listening integrity restoring mutual mediating relationships-- between mind and bodies, between yintegral spirit and yang nature, between right-inductive and left-deductive hemispheres, between physical-human Self and metaphysical-sacred synergizing Me/We. Infamy's monopolistic economic assumptions, like monocultural ecological identity, more fruitfully and forcefully revolutioned as polycultural challenges to re-ligion resonant balance Harmonic frequencies of dipolar revolutions reconnecting 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-empathic potential To live beyond death we must open listening life as ecological glistening integrity.

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