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Inspired by "The Computer Bell", in Thich Nhat Hanh's Art of Communication, p. 149.

When we play Either I need to win more Or Other needs to lose without getting quite so sore, Our entertainment screens offer escape into alternative ego identified images, Respite from feeling "loser" identity concerns, issues postponed while immersed in technological silos away from Earth's sacred ecology embracing win/win sanctuary. Lost in our dominating indoor on screen apartness, we forget to touch feel smell taste know hear see reflect reassuringly hug our own skeleton-framed selves playing DNA healthy speciated games as win/win co-passioning specialists. We forget to reinvest in dipolar co-arising conversations while distracted by ego-inflating gossip, light entertainment at unlistening Other's victimless expense, criticizing Other's obvious lack of win/win co-redemptive wisdom, while fueling, feeding and watering our own win/lose complaining and other unmindful lose/lose unlistening to win/win communion's more co-passionate opportunities. We can program a right-brain bell for win-left/win-right co-passion in our dipolar co-arising processor of incoming/outgoing in/ex-formation, as every breath and bicameral heart-beat listens to emotion's motions to stop lose/lose to go back to our win/win bicameral think/feel/rethink listening zero-zone skeletal identities. Digestive systemic ego-breathing in yang and out yin to release win/lose toxic tensions, lack of win/win nutritionally creative intention in our left-brain dominant bodies and our redemptive co-present right minds as we curiously, yet courageously, continue our win/lose inside role play.

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