Peace Rings True
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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.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2015
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