The opposite of life
is death
The polar opposite of eternal health
is terminal disease,
with unease perhaps lying/truthing
in-between timelessness
and untimely demise
So too,
my opposite of steady compassion
may be your unsettling dispassion
Elation v deflation
of all these oppositional answers above
as clear
as unclear appositional questings
below.
What is my opposite of suicide?
Self promotion?
Ego inflation?
Having all my consuming needs
fully answered?
Or
maybe some uneasy questing
timeless mind
and spacious body
in-between healthy Now
And death-defying
death-denying
death-defining
death-despairing
death-despoiling
AnthroLove Here
Remains part of EarthLife There
whenever tomorrow comes
Now?
As Me curiously questioning
feels like our lonelier half
of We not yet
finally answering?
What could appositionally rebalance
death's final answering Earth-climate
and life's open questioning Anthro-culture?
What is the opposite of lively ruminations
and deadly ideations?
What lies contentious truths contenting,
In-between EarthBody's discommunication
desecrating death
and AnthroMind's sacred communion life?
Octaves of robustly vibrant light
we hear
and see energy's synergy
co-gravitating
Multiculturally co-arising light and power
polyculturally dipolar
insight with resonant energy sounds
PolyEarTheism
sacred integrity's healthy wealth
enlightening octaves of potential
Fractally eco/theo-logically win/win
within
Mirroring exterior ego/eco-logical
both/and appositional
double-binary octaves
of symbiotic integrity
Climaxing healthy wealth
internal cultures of octave listening power
and external climates
of bilaterally speaking healthy light
shedding stressed shade
in unsafe dark disappointment
Even odd Desolation Wilderness
can burn
from overheated capitalism
supported disproportionately
by Straight White Western-Northern
MonoTheistic Patriarchs
Our mature
adult women
internationally redeveloping indigenous wisdom
Rediscover
uncover revolutionary revelation
All giving birth
empowering
our same integral
enlightening
Whole Open Systemic
cooperative
Revisiting
sacred green minded,
red/blue-bicameral hearted
NonViolent PeaceWay.
WhiteHot spiritual truths
represent DarkCool natural beauty
Matters interweaving
regenerating
co-passioning
creolizing multicultural communions
ProLogical resonant voices
going way back
to indigenous healthy nature
for and from
co-investing wealthy ecospirits
balancing bicameral eco-political powers
Enlightening polypathic
meta-polyphonic
prime co-relationship
DiPolar full meaning choices
are empty of dark straight male privileged voices
within Zen Zeroist
EarthHealth Taoist
White spiritual truth matters
of dark natural beauty manners,
enlightening
as also empowering
bilateral balancing appositional depth
of healthy cooperative meaning,
not so much oppositional width
of individual wealthing purpose.
I wonder if it is even possible
for any one person
to tell the whole Truth,
While yet speaking nothing but the Truth,
defined and experienced to date,
so help me Gods and Goddesses,
mountains and rivers,
Earth's systemic regenerative voices
The whole Truth
explicitly mentioning oppositional not truths
and further refining as yet
not experienced counter-realities
imagined appositional co-defining Truths
equivalent to undefining not
not double-binding
co-refining win/win Truth
bicamerally felt and thought
Which might be a possible way
to retell WholeEarth's ecosystemic Truth,
but I imagine only S/he
could definitively reply
in Golden Rule
healthy democratic Truth.
I wonder if it is integrally possible
to speak and actively listen
for WholeEarth's win/win
health wealthiest
resilient Truth
Co-arising vast ecosystemic Presence
and ego-holistic Humility,
especially about my autonomous capacity
to speak timeless WholeEarth
GreenCommunion Truth
as Sacred Beauty.
The Earth's rapid climate degeneration,
now rolling out faster with private transport
and industrialized meat and poultry farming,
and longer with artificial light
and factories birthing plastic products
all night,
moves into a revolutionary height
of global anxiety,
democratically felt
But kleptocratically denied
by win v lose monocultural caste leaders
not familiar with win+win revolutionary
polycultural outcomes,
caste abolishing incomes
for all sentient beings
Multigenerational regenerators
meta-morphic appositional
(not win v lose oppositional)
dipolar
(not bipolarized)
thinkers because feelers
meditative contemplators
integrity's permaculture designers
restoring down to top co-arising
AND, therefore, co-gravitating top through down,
all around,
non-violent communicating peaceful mediators,
All healers of toxic subclimate
and monocultural win v lose
either/or left-brain dominant thinking,
are also, at our best,
bicameral ego/eco-systemic equivalent anticipators
of win+win global green peace
New through indigenously experienced co-passionate raptures,
sacred Heaven anticipations
as Earthly organic garden
expectations
Why are we here?
my oppositional daughter
defiantly asks.
Because we're not over there?
her appositional dad
too often
and frustratingly
responds.
Sogyal Rinpoche writes
"To embody the transcendent
is why we are here."
I doubt my daughter
would find this more satisfactory,
sounds like more patriarchal malfactory.
Echeopnir Laygos has another impression,
To embody cooperative economic empowerment
and political win/win enlightenment
is why liturgy,
communion,
and transcendent meditation
are here.
So,
embodying Earth's transcendent unity
is also how we are here;
but this too
would not satisfy my daughter's constant questions
about why and how,
I fear.
I was minding our own ancient business,
making maple and brown sugar oatmeal
for my constantly
and instantly
devouring daughter,
when GrandMother Moses
of Poetic Narrative
broke into my day:
frankly, I didn't even know She could speak
Racism and Patriarchalism
are the inside Angry
and outside Terrified voices
perpetuating retributive injustice
and capital-value monopolistic
monocultural
monotheistic
win/lose competitive models
of Left v Right,
West v East,
North v South
Ego v EcoHabitat
VerbalMind v NonVerbalEmbodied
multiculturing intelligence
with ego/eco-cooperative therapeutic intent.
Then the kettle
began to whistle
a just-in-time
win/win
ecopolitical reminder
we can choose to compare
and contrast
across a spectrum
of win/lose
through lose/lose
toward appositional co-arising win/win
with sufficient
just-right/left
out/in hot water
and maple with brown sugar oatmeal
to feed our constantly
instantly hungry
potential EarthMothers.
Yang (1) and Yin (0) Zones
are place-holders,
polynomial variables
for appositional co-arising relationships,
tensions, creative and not so much,
intentions
Such as white transparency and color,
white noise and resonant octaves,
monoculturalism and multiculturalistic transubstantiation,
RightWing and RightBrain
conservative of past and progressive into compassionate future
elite and inclusive non-elite, in political philosophy
and history
of colonization with active hope for creolization,
Patriarchal and EcoFeminist polycultural intent,
healthy wealth,
win/lose competitive games
pretending not to want win/win cooperative
co-passionate
co-investments.
Like warm wet organisms in wombs,
like child-birth,
like breathing out
then in again,
out again...
I suppose,
implicit in any explicating form of evolutioning theory-talk,
a revolutionary verbing thesis
progressively implies mindful intention
assuming ethologically growing function
deepening and/or widening what makes and feels sense,
spatial and/or temporal,
some health-explicating and/or pathology appositional implicating purpose
beneficial and/or harmful to anthropoids,
to all Earth's living-organic Tribes,
to all Ego/EcoSystemic Earth,
to all Animus/Anima Souls,
Yang/Yin
Left/Right Earth Holonic Nature/Spirit interdependence,
optimizing therapeutic
co-investing ZeroZones explicate/implicate
for secular/sacred nondual
health-evolving
yet unfinishable
and unspecifiable
natural-space
for dynamically now-timed Vocations.
This ancient apposition
between fear and love,
distrust and trust,
where fear reigns, love has already faded into too-distant hope;
where love co-integrates
fear can naught but evaporate.
Dipolar appositions
are bipolar oppositions wearing newer wings
of more robustly Win+Win polyculturing wealth
impoverishing Win v Lose anti-resilient
not so brilliant
polarizing pathology.
Appositional contrasts speak in transliterating dialects
trusting co-passionate truths of balanced resonance
and distrusting degenerating dissonance,
arrogance,
confusion,
apathy,
absence of sustaining interdependent curiosity,
dipolar co-gravitating courage.
Those who dance through polyamorous designs
for polyculturing love's integrative outcomes,
extinguish LeftBrain's angry anthropocentric fears
disintegrating narcissistic outgo.
I just read that U.S. Democrats stand in solidarity
against Trump,
but what else?
What is democracy for?
First,
democracy, rather than republican plutocracy,
here confuses collaboration against our competitive opponents
with solidarity,
which must be for both ourselves and our appositional tensions.
Second,
democracy trusts empathy
rather than mistrusting antipathy
much less active distrusting pathology
so democracy stands in solidarity
with polypathic regenerativity,
with wealth optimization as health maximization.
So,
please,
if our parties and cooperatively-owned
and managed
and cared for
healthy workplaces
wear the label of "we are pro-democracy"
then rest assured that being for healthy polycultural evolution
and against degenerative monoculturing competitions
is a humanitarian platform
not limited to gathering votes from 50% of the humane-natural population,
but capable of drawing every vote
from every mind and body of age
to become pro-health for all Earth's species,
including this less upper-caste privileged variety
of democratically polyamorous party animal.
Who would argue
about which came first,
intelligent compositional design,
or a decomposing natural Earth?
No one.
To do so is too patently absurd,
when we choose to see these two
not only as oppositional cause-effect,
but also as appositional
dipolar co-arising balance
of resilient resonant information,
composing and recomposing
tacitly implied within decomposing energetic balance.
The very idea that either regenerating natural purpose
or degenerating spiritual meaning
could originally, foundationally, come one before the other,
like belonging before longing,
day before night,
contentment before decontextualization,
appears before feeling anti-ecological,
like choosing Win v Lose degenerative stasis
without Win+Win regenerative integrity
co-arising further multi-generational co-intelligence
Of daydream democratic rights
and nightmare autocratic wrongs.
To a tree,
universe is Time's co-arising health investment,
evolution of unfolding branches and their root systems,
merging in one co-arising
nondualistic yet dipolar appositional functions
Time of Light
and Time of DualDark,
Dark before dawn of regenerate hope,
Dark after absent dusk of despair.
For children of trees,
EartHealth
deep invests in dualdark ecology
merging fertile co-relational dreams
eco-empathic nights
decomposing health from empowering light,
and dark as deep folded
integral wealth thereof.
Regenerative investment-present/divestment-past
before future seasons
of creolizing kosmic grace,
well-planted light
evolved through enculturing
forest of oceanic breathing waves,
producing embryonic seeds
Synergetic God
of Bilateral Time's further co-arising regeneration
and co-gravitating degeneration.
What's the difference between a regenerative-revolutionary outcome
and an evolutionary process of gradual development?
It depends
whether you are looking for the baby
or listening to the new mom.
But,
if you listen and empathize with both
communing together,
then probably none.
If 2 times 2 is 4
because each 2 is either or
rather than both and,
then why is 1 times 1 not
not the same 1,
and also 2?
If me and you grow two
because each me and you is either me
or not you
yet also both-and me as appositional to you,
then are we not each 1,
and also both part of 2,
as one appositive (nondual) co-defining pair?
When 1
gives birth to another 1,
then this is a revolutionary event
for the newer 1
and an evolutionary process
for the original 1
of any both/and Non-oppositionally gruesome
appositional 2-sum.
Difference between crazy wildness and genius
may be soundness of deeply revolutionary resonance,
win/wins discerned and discovered
through transparent co-arising communicants
within a symbiotic multiculture
of appositional paradigms
co-gravitating me/we consciousness.
I can't say for sure
as I live in a less win/win intentional,
more win/lose conventional,
tribe of mutual thoughtful secular knowledge
v felt sacred wisdom,
each mind v body
denying our complicity in BusinessAsUsual
v HolinessAsUnusual
cognitive/affective dissonance.
Difference between angsting cognitive dissonance
and anticipating affective assonance
appears to be a resonant not null set.
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