Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Parallelismus Membrorum

Intelligent 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 intelligent act of "dedication"
sounds suspiciously left-brain dominant
to me,
Looks like rationalization,
Feels like fake fixing
Sublimating sensory desires
and denials
that would merely replace 
one disconnected set of neurosensory trauma
with Other's trauma

By empathic mind over matter sustained willpower,
rather than ego's power-with
peaceful sentience.

As if left-brain consciousness
could control environmental flow
of sentient feelings,
the fluid elixirs of empathic connecting
yet autonomous presence.

Anyway
[kinda got lost in the analogy
which is more of a right-brain metaphoric
metaphysical
polypathic
polyphonic search for resonant connections,
reconnections,
preconnections,
disconnections],
I can imagine:

No suffering,
loss,
humiliation,
excommunication,
impeaching death 
of an organic left-brain dominant AnthroIntelligence,
however dread-filled,
is,
or can become,
meaningless

All positives and negative experiences
are connected,
and memory reconnected
and imagined preconnected
to empower/disempower elder brain stem's 
pleasure/pain sentience 
and thereby enlightening prefrontal cortex's
compassion/dispassion consciousness

That alleviating Ego suffering
contributes to alleviating environmental  
EcoSystemic Trauma
loss
degradation
disconnection
marginalization
apartheid

Depression
of an anxious organic right-brain 
interconnected
Whole Open EarthMother View
of spiraling intergenerational
revolving life and death

Recycles
Reweavings
ReGenerations
Multi-ReGenerations
Interdependence
of democratic 
life systemic
organic Power
sacred Light,
bilaterally resilient 
Positive v Negative 
and In-Between WuSei
synergetic crown conscious 
purposeful wants
and entropic root sentient 
meaningful needs
to polyamorously reconnect

Religious Elder Brainstem sentiment
and Scientific PreFrontal Cortex intelligence

Agree that
"No suffering,
however dreadful
[and even mortal],
is 
or can be
meaningless"
when consciously 
purposefully connected
to ecosystemic trauma's
individualistic
familial
nationalistic
and/or anthropocentric
win v lose drama

Rather than integrity's
Win+Win potential.

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