Morning Coffee
This pleasant morning I began
my retiring day as usual
with more reflective readings,
today from “Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia”
Rob Brezsny.
“In January 2003,
a Muslim gas station attendant saved a New York synagogue from arson
with his phone call to 911.
Pakistan immigrant Syed Ali watched as a man bought gasoline,
marched across the street,
and began dousing the front of the temple.
Police responded to Ali’s call in time to stop the crime.
Ali declined the mantle of hero saying
‘It was a sacred place he was going to destroy.’”
Geraldine Weis-Corbley, goodnewsnetwork.org
Geraldine is right
this is not news.
This is who we already are
on a good day.
Nearly anyone in Ali’s shoes would have done the same.
Probably even Donald Trump would have called 911,
although would this be because it is a sacred place?
“As either violence [mutually-immune antipathy] or pleasure [blissful co-empathic trust] goes up, the other goes down.”
James W. Prescott
Violent absence of care comes from within
in response to hated feelings
of ego-diminishing displeasure, within
and chronically apathetic dispassion,
untouched from without.
Pleasure comes in from co-empathic trust without
in response to multiculturing truths healthily syncing with beauty
empathically entrusting confluence within
from generation through regeneration
toward EarthTime’s organic passion-mind/pleasure-body
evolution.
We all want to desensitize violating fears
and aggressive angers from within.
We all want to resensitize to mutually-held and offered pleasures without,
even the disturbed pleasures of calling 911
to watch the police lock up a real live Hater
and throw away the villain’s key to compassion's
pleasure thrival.
We all want peace offerings of polycultural
multiculturally synergetic and magnificently transcendent beauty,
re-connecting re-ligious re-weaving goodness
Earth-rooted moral-natural equivalence,
healthy respect,
wealthy dignity,
co-operatively reassuring trust,
massaged and absorbed and ringing-singing
through as many of our resonant sensory receptors as possible,
extending our co-relational anthro-egocentric boundaries
of co-empathic trust
for and with and of mutually nurturing/nutritional caregiving,
as did Ali
in the story of the Hater v God’s Sacred People,
each yet another bicameral balancing sensory-empathic network story
Tao HumaneMind as divinely trusting Bodhisattva,
struggling with Me v You potential violence within
resisting bad days
persisting good day co-empathic trust
of Earth’s polyculturing
SacredGrace Offerings
bountifully beautiful
without.
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