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This piece concludes with a paraphrase of "Weapons of Evil", Wisdom of Laotse, p 167, Modern Library, 1948, Lin Yutang, ed.

Speak gently when you offer criticism, but don't be so soft as to sacrifice the truth. Rumi (M. Mafi, trans) Speak gently when you offer your truth, when you confront aggressions of Others against your superior merits and dissonance about your own egocentric demerits, but don't be so soft as to sacrifice your contented confluence, your unconditional trusting resonance. Speak gently, wrestle with and not against, when you confront dissonant overheated evils, economic injustices, ecological traumas, and remain just flexible enough to fore-give the absence of absolute truth of resilient peace in this HereNow moment, about our EarthJustice merits and demerits for and against sufficient compassion, lust for retributive dispassion, and addiction to anthro-love and human peace without EcoJustice creativity communion reconnection. Gently root for underdog, understory, companion parasites sharing Earth's vast Tree of Lover's Life. We each and all are cooperatively invited to economically play universal parasite and unitarian Host, hunters sometimes feeling hunted and haunted, lovers passionate about becoming Beloved. Fear of hunger hunts and thirsts for sufficient hydration to recontent polycultural simplicity, just-right enough to balance peaceful EcoJustice. We each incarnate both cooperative ecologic and competitive ego/eco-normic fluid balance. We play our strategic games more sustainably and win/win wisely as we comprehend Othered parasites are also benign CoHost potential, both Yin and Yang within a self-regenerative beloved Tao Community balancing EarthTribe Ways, more joyfully greeting, meeting, and nurturing through each day. Hosting optimal regenerative spaces for ecological cooperative economic choice making is a wise, and strikingly shamanic, natural systemic vocation. EarthPeace-facilitation mentors logical orthopraxis trust optimizing continuous quality improving engagement, meeting natural/spiritual design and Original Positive Teleological Intent. EcoTherapy slows down our aspiring Anthro heartbeats while optimally filling our lungs and minds with each Other, rather than getting all Yanged up, with a lot of shallow, unmindful red-hot breathing, win/lose calculated thinking, and talking without sufficient CoHost feeling the nutritional sea through which we all swim together trusting neurosystemic positives of healthy EcoJustice. Weapons of Lose/Lose evil dissociation Teacher Win/Win anticipated good reassociation Of all things, weapons are instruments of evil, of hate. Therefore the polycultural person, possessed of Tao's (0) Core Logos, avoids violent tools of anger and enslavement and hate. Polycultural Communities and Persons favor LeftBrain universal logos, Yang mutually active peace and care-giving protection within domestic love-life And, undomesticated infractive colonizations favor RightBrained mythic Yin unitarian accommodation, nurturing non-violent intent and assumptions of equivalent response, redemptive fore-giveness to meet Challenger half way, as Other understands their embodied needs and mindfelt wants at this time. Predators are weapons for delivering defensive monocultures; not creative tools for polycultural sustainability. When the abuse of predators cannot be helped, our healthiest policy is calm restraint, minimal dissonant response frequencies and functions. To fore-bare arms evolves proactive peacemaking. To remain calm Love-Life hunters revolves resilient contentment. Even in victory, there is no boasting, And who boasts of short-term Win-Lose outcomes Is one who delights in violence, unnecessarily lodges, enstates, restates negative karmic dissonance. Delight in EcoPathology cannot achieve beloved EcoJustice power. Intuited good, healthy beauty favors Left-brain reception. Dissonance, violence, evil favor Right-brain dissonant appositional feeling. AnthroEgo stands on the Left's sensory input loop, Our SuperEco stands in the Right's Elder Memory space. That is to say, Elder Right can con-celebrate Dying Rites of Passage. Speak gently Left toward Rites Passage but don't be so Left-brained soft that EarthJustice cannot find you, and yours, and all EarthTribe within each HereNow Beloved Tree of LoveLife Community Event.

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