We have an enemy within called the ego
who prevents us from using our mind intelligently.
It hides deep within our heart
and emerges with regularity
to challenge and consume our will.
Rumi (M. Mafi, trans.)

We have a challenger wrestling within called our Ego
emerging with regularity
to confront and distort our deeper will
for more sustainable eco-normal.

Not one of us believes in optimized incarnate power within
ourselves,
an other,

a State, or Nation,

Earth,
our Solar Systemic-Fueled Universe,
compatible with a total absence of any power among,
without.

No faith in the power of love,
without evidence of evolving-revolving peaceful growing practice.

No omnipotent power of love,
without all EarthTribe’s ecotherapeutic practice.

While Earth evolves an orbitting planet
composed of diverse tribal species,
polyculturing forms,
eco-logical functions,
rich octaved frequencies,
Earth is also one holistic cooperative,
self-regenerating economy;
which rises and falls with surfing
surfacing ecological tipping point balance,
of ego-centric Yang
with eco-flexic Yin’s prime double-binary regenerate
double-negative binomial metric and logic equivalence.

Economics evolved from agrarian and survival instinct origins
when our original transactional intent was
to sustain breath and heart beat,
then memory of self as interdependently identified from and with Other,
to culturally understand Self as parasitic dwelling
within a sometimes benignly balanced,
normative 4-seasoned,
cooperative RNA-encrypting Host,
coincidentally displayed by our DNA sensed ecosystems
of local residency, body, home, family, Tribe, species.

Exchanged,
bartered,
fore-given
redeeming values were economic extensions
of eco-logical natural systemic development.

Stimulus-Response
as What comes around, goes around,
as Golden Rules and Rational Ratios,
where half-root of 2 is always 1,
as half of 1 Ego is (0) soul eco-centric.

What are we becoming,
that commerce and markets and sustainable new economics
pause with unholy terror and awed stagnant, flat-line silence,
horrific wonder about our erratic change of climate’s rhythms and patterns
without,
as this TransMillennial Regeneration’s internal ecotherapeutic climate
predicts scorchingly manic competition
with an understory of hypothermic silos of suicidal depression,
a too-polypathic absorption into dying self-identification?

What would we be
if we could justly recall
our permacultural economics of ecotherapy
applied both within our without synergetic landscape
and within our within (0) eco-centric love?

Warnings Against Interference
predict Teachings For Interdependence.

There are those who would conquer
everything and everyone,
their Win is our Lose,
And make of us what they conceive or desire.
They cannot ultimately succeed,
one cannot win a Win-Lose game,
unless there are at least two survivors willing to play.

For this Solar-Interdependent System
is God’s own eco-normic eco-logical Vessel
It cannot be made whole by human nature’s
ignorant interference,
stumbling about like elephants uprooting tender grass.

Those who commodify eco-value spoil it.
Those who hoard this nutritious well-being wealth lose it.

For: Some yangs go forward,
as some yins follow behind,
like surf surging in,
then backing out.
Some breathe out too hot,
so some breathe in too cold;
Some are too strong,
So some are wilting;
Some species have broken,
so all species may fall.

Hence Wisdom eschews human nature’s
anthro-centric hubris,
evolves aversive toward extravagant power over Earth, each Other,
avoids egocentric pride
dissonant with ecocentric eco-normic comprehensive comprehension
of Nature’s prime systemic wu wei principle
of tipping point balance toward optimized sustainability
of all life
wherever it can be polyculturally ReStated.

 

Note: This piece was inspired by, and concludes with a transposition of, Laotse’s “Warning Against Interference,” p. 164, Modern Library, Lin Yutang, ed., 1948.