The Recess Bell
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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.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019
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