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Originally inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh's "Drinking Tea in Mindfulness," pp. 149-50, The Art of Communicating.

"Nature yields to artifice, not artifice to nature." Iain McGilchrist Winning yields to lost and last identity, not ego-loss to healthier winnings, more ecosystemically robust. LeftWing values for transparent inclusive democratic rights more than royalistic wrongs, yield to RightWing nationalistic white supremacy, not artifice to integrity of healthy climax powers. Integrity yields to dualistic mendacity, not artifice to InTegriTea, seasoned by and with Earth Mothering experience, memory, longing, promise, passion... Embracing compassion yields to anthro-hubris snarcyschism, Win/Win gives out to Lose-society/Lose-individual divided cynicism, not Lose/Lose mendacity found in TegriTerrestrial Tea. Drinking inTegri Tea is a wonder spatial awesomely timeless temporal way to set aside sufficient Right over not enough Left time to communion within and out our perpetually migrant sensual selves. When I drink in TegriTea, I only drink ego's eco-integrity. I don't need to think about tomorrow's objectives but also feel with fellow-migrant in TegriTea subjective workers yielding to co-players, mentors yeilding emotive facilitators of compassioned communication. I can stop all my alien divestments while I drink in TegriTea. When ego stops disembodied abstractions, I can double-bind eco-attending in natural/spiritual TegriTea. There and here only InTegriTea's vast watering potential. Here embodied and Now timelessly temporal is only we/me in TegriTea co-passionate inspiraling Between me and Inte-gritty natural/spiritual outside/inside connection, re-connecting soil and soul. I don't want or need a cell phone or computer or even language to watch and listen in TegriTea's communion. In RightWing dominant fact, because I'm not emotionally speaking, I can wealthier track within this co-passioning in TegriTea Ego breathes in, I am aware inTegriTea's fragrance is here, Ego is aware my RightWing dominated body smells in TegriTea feeling and I'm eco-aware that passion's passing InTegriTea grows healthiest in resilient HereEmbodied Now in TegriTea. "Drink in TegriTea!" invites a ZeroSoul Zen command to bring me back to our true and trusted EarthMother wounded womb. Don't just think about and around emotionally intelligent communion. Be Here embodied Now minded, climate united in TegriTea. I am trusting this vortex time is by climate invitation and not by paranoid absence of co-present passion. I am not yet a spiraling shadow; I am embodied health in TegraNation process, and Earth outside knows and inside feels rations and reasons, loves and passions This Here/Now a bilateral vortex in TegriTea's cup, deep and yet wide yang and yet yin binomially stretched out and down, north and south, west and east, right and left out and in my tea-washed tea-fueled tea-nourished tea-nurtured in TegriTerrain co-passion, spatial spiraling Wonder returning hiccup in timeless Awe. LeftWing green nature tea yields reluctantly to RightWing disembodied spiritualized fake-zeal, not RightWing unhealthy secular artifice to LeftWing sacred health, liberally sacred loving liberate ionic ironic iconic IntegriTease' emotionally intelligent Nature Yields to artifice, not cognitive artifice to sacramental Nature.

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