I’m grateful for a poem today’s question wrote with my help; if you’ll allow, I’ll share it with you 🙂

‘The Best Things In Life Are Free’

Since “…we(e),…” allowed Liberty’s torch to be scorched,
Bell cracked, it’s knell snatched, decades ago,
by not exercising our civic responsibilities, duties,
and thereby allowing responsibility’s Siamese twin sister,
freedom, to wither like an unexercised muscle as well,
we must first exorcise our society of
self through to other possession
in order to exercise our responsibilities
and again have lefts, rights and freedoms.
Until then, what’s free, what rights, freedoms
do we actually have? I, personally am not
allowed to breath, et tu?
If we don’t, there’s no hope,
let alone assurance, that our progeny,
we say we love, will even live.

Thanx for all you do. Have a good International People With Disabilities Day 🙂 reality

Since “…we(e),…” allowed Liberty’s torch to be scorched, her Bell cracked, it’s knell snatched, decades ago, by not exercising our civic responsibilities, duties, and thereby allowing responsibility’s Siamese twin sister, freedom, to wither like an unexercised muscle as well, we must first exorcise our society of self through to other possession in order to exercise our responsibilities and again have lefts, rights and freedoms. Until then, what’s free, what rights, freedoms do we actually have; I, personally am not allowed to breath- et tu? Thanx for all you do and don’t. Have a great eve’ 🙂 reality

Beautifully chosen questions; studying them more deeply can clearly delineate the necessity of the answers in our world today. There is a route, rote of political correctness that is necessary in measure and reserve, traditionally used to address historical to current egress, etc.; allowing perspective to inform our behaviors and communications in those regards. Yet, we live in a nation of extremes, even seen in our younger generations contorting through to deforming themselves in a plethora of varied ways to ‘get ahead’, ‘be and show talent’, ‘have a competitive edge’, make enough $ to exist through to successfully defend themself and live well, etc.; in quite unnatural through to self-destruction means to their ends. Of course, ‘to each their own’, ‘que sera, …’, etc., yet, as this community does, “…we(e),…” can effective work towards re-kindling the evolution by struggling against the corporate structure’s convolution’s devolutionary direction’s programming of people. To that end, my answers are aimed. Naturally, by human growth and relation (which life is), we treat everyone respectfully; yet, not as a product of supposed left intellectual projections like, “everybody should be respected”. For, the intellect can’t lead, as the life doesn’t follow. A good rule of thumb, as all here may be aware, is treat one as you would have them treat you; unless one is otherwise informed by someone’s behaviors and/or communications, etc.. As well, it’s spiritually possible to still respect one whose abusing you or just being obnoxious, while also defending oneself from them; probabably a preferable path. Yet, I wished to bring up a point that might add hue to the conversation. I don’t know about the rest of you, yet, I’ve experienced that the truth is seldom spoken, the rule of taking one’s golden silence all the way to the bank, for decades straight, if not life, if considered concretized. And, of course, the more one walks that path of ‘least resistence’, at minimum ‘going along to get along’, etc., they tend to ‘put blinders on ‘, ‘only go forward’, ‘mind their business’, ‘not put their nose into other peoples lives’; which leads to pathological ‘white lying’, mental ‘departmentalization’, pathological lying (why tell a truth when you can lie), pathological extreme lying (why tell any ole’ lie when you can extremely lie every time)- motis operendi such as ‘ignorance isn’t just bliss’, nor ‘next to godliness’, but, rather ‘all’, etc.(extreme means to extreme ends, defined and determined necessary by the wordly world). Life as relation must be honored, i.m.h.o.. For e.g., almost no one in my personal life has honored me with the truth. Yet, in my latest 45 of my 60 years, as an activist/advocate on all issues for all life and the Earth, I’ve been honored with the truth enumerable times; thank goodness. How I respect others mostly is by honoring them with the truth; they may not like it, they may disagree 100 %, that is choice- my choice is to honor them. Of course, “do unto others as you’d have them do unto you’, ‘know thyself’, etc., informs the ability to discern other perspectives like, people only deserve the rights, liberties they afford to others. Ergo, if the death penalty weren’t racist, classist, sexist, ageist, it would be a fair remedy; actually nonviolent- for ending a murderer’s life stops them from murdering again, as they might, at least in prison. This concept that ordinary life and/or human behavior is a process of continually ‘gifting’ isn’t true. It’s ordinary behavior, not some kind of spiritual genorosity; more is usually less. The fact that the ordinary has become extraordinary because of the devolution of human behavior doesn’t change reality an aota. As well, all words don’t mean what notsees project they do, ‘do as they say or else’. All words are their own paths of study, and either you are or you’re not studying. For e.g., projecting people ‘should, or even must, forgive’, is detrimental to self, the other and society at small and large. For, feelings, and the thoughts that they’re based on, have a centering in reality. Convenience doesn’t further, perseverance does. If you forgive a person who hasn’t stopped the behavior towards you and/or others, are you really forgiving, or is it one of the ’50 shades’ of cowardice most citizens find essential to meeking out their little corner of ‘normalcy’, ‘contentment’, ‘happiness’, ‘success’, ‘accomplishment’, ‘mastery’, ‘bliss’, etc.? Thanx for all you do. Have a great day 🙂 reality

On this World AIDS Day, I’m filled with thankfulness for the progress all elements of global society have realized, and will continue to, to address all the issues that relate to curing and alleviating the effects of these diseases on all people and their relatives, communities. Blessings be…. reality

A twig of poetry relates 🙂

If

One lived as prayer,
Their light adding
To the well of light,
Their every step in grace,
They left no footprints,
That will echo on in
All ways, always.

(Written in memory of Mother Theresa)

Unparalled, words cannot express our gratitude, not even theirs. Thanx- have a great eve’ 🙂

Wayne Powell, ‘Great Love ~ Aloha Nui’, featuring Patti Miller 🙂

https://play.google.com/music/m/Tn7clkxsmh643nrgbifmvbkvtai?t=Great_Love_feat_Patti_Miller_-_Wayne_Powell

reality

Courage isn’t magic, some have, some don’t. Jung relates 80 % of all our actions, feelings, thoughts are compensatory to our past. So much more so to our past extreme experiences, especially the negative ones. For many, especially those who can’t afford therapy, those experiences, in all probability, have not been fully integrated into our psyche, not even physically or emotionally. Thus those wounds having left emotonal scar tissue, musculature armoring, diminishing of flow of chi, chakra blocks, etc., which manifest in the form of reocurrnce of a varied amount and form of problems, in them. A recapitulation of self, is an easy way to struggle superficially with these experiences; it’s always advisable to keep one’s own counsel. Remember, courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s one’s ability to think and act while being afraid; not allowing fear the upperhand, freezing one, stopping breathing, thought processing, etc. 🙂 reality

Final version of a twig of poetree elucidates 🙂

Soul

As my breath is the one, prana,
And the life’s pulse, pala,
Reaching angelic source, Sura,
So is this mind, manas,
A flowering unfoldment,
Unendingly reaching
The Eye that would it see,
Unbeckoning unto Thee.

As well, this Bodhi, a temple,
Of the four and fifth, Nur,
So entered by Atma,
A Ray of Thy Sun, thus being
Winged and as such with wind,
Flying only in Dharma’s dance,
Is returning to, Brahma, You.
There yet, by Thy Grace, go i.

Unparalled, words cannot express our gratitude, not even theirs. Thanx- have a great eve’ 🙂

Wayne Powell, ‘Great Love ~ Aloha Nui’, featuring Patti Miller 🙂

https://play.google.com/music/m/Tn7clkxsmh643nrgbifmvbkvtai?t=Great_Love_feat_Patti_Miller_-_Wayne_Powell

reality

“Live Now As We Think Human Beings Should Live”, Zinn, Sartre, Rolling Over In His Grave Says, ‘Duh’

Exigency replacing humanity,
merchants, only for more
through to mercs for unending
unneccessary war.
C’est tres facile pour la machine,
addictive personality disorder
replacing human being,
c’est la unvie, no?

Oligarchic vacuum-up being almost
always on only leaves a trickle down,
only, when it’s accidentally turned off.
So the interlocking, laced economic
systems base, scarcity, that they think
they’ve replaced nature’s abundance with,
details violence in all hues of all colors
of the rainbow, not just choosing to not know.

An addiction, like any other,
that can be treated just so.
When one weeds the garden within,
turns the inside out, a ray of Thee’s Light
without, And within, it doubling,
doubles again outside, Bliss begins,
peace on wing sings, Soulshine
shared on and on, evolves life, echoing.

A twig of poetree also elucidates 🙂

Soul

As my breath is the one, prana,
And the life’s pulse, pala,
Reaching angelic source, sura,
So is this mind, manas,
A flowering unfoldment,
Unendingly touching
The eye that would it see,
Unbeckoning unto Thee.

As well, this Bodhi, a temple,
Of the four and fifth, nur,
So entered by Atma, a ray of Thy Sun,
Thus being winged
And as such with wind,
Flying only in Dharma’s dance,
Is returning to, Brahma, you.
For, there yet, by Thy Grace, go i.

And, if you’ll allow, a song of non-violence: ‘Harmony of Mother-Earth’ by Patrick Bernhard:

Thanx for all you do 🙂 reality

Thanx. Please excuse my brain injury induced partial memory loss, I didn’t mean to have you do something a skosh questionable; sorry. I just realized that there’s no way for members here to communicate with each other; other than in the context of the practices. Of course, to aid in the harmony of the community and it’s aims; as well as it’s members. So, due to your kind offerings, etc., please feel free to contact me at jamesmnordlund dot wordpress; if they allow and you wish? Thanx for all you do. Have a good day 🙂 reality

Yes, beautiful in a myriad amount of ways, bless and thank you. Knowing that there’s no separation and not no separation at once does inform a perspective where “…we(e),…” can discern there’s no separation betwixt or between spirit, energy, ‘matter’, all one in the Reality you speak of; with a capitalized R, if you’ll allow. Of course, the spirit of ‘matter’ isn’t as a living being’s, yet, no spirit is the same even amongst people. The worldly world’s ‘materialistic’ perspective is an entirely differing bowl of cherries; no? For, “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. “, William Blake in ‘The Marriage of Heaven and Hell’. Thanx for all you do, have a great eve’ 🙂 reality