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Dedicated Connections

In The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche writes, unconvincingly, to my left-brain dominant ears, "No suffering, however dreadful [and even mortal], is or can be meaningless if it is dedicated to the alleviation of the suffering of others." This abstract act of "dedication" sounds suspiciously left-brain dominant to me, Looks like rationalization, Feels like arguments for a view of "sublimating" sensory desires and denials that would merely replace, by act of superego sustained willpower, one disconnected set of sensual attractions and distractions for another. As if left-brain reason could control our natural spiritual flow of hormones, the multicolored elixirs of right-brain connecting and as yet disconnected feelings. Anyway [kinda got lost in the analogy which is more of a right-brain metaphoric metaphonic polypathic polyphonic search for connections, reconnections, preconnections, unconnections], I can imagine: No suffering, loss, humiliation, excommunication, death of an organic left-brain dominant EgoSystem, however dread-filled, is, or can become, meaningless, If this event can be connected, and resonantly reconnected to enlightening and thereby empowering the alleviation of Other's ecosystemic suffering loss degradation disconnection marginalization apartheid, death of an organic right-brain interconnected Whole Open EarthSytem View of spiraling revolving life and death Reweavings ReGenerations Multi-ReGenerations Interdependence of democratic life systemic sacred Power secularized Light, bilaterally resilient Positive/Negative Energy.

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