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Gratitude with Attitude

Gratitude
A co-empathic sense of trust,
awe,
appreciation of echo-resonant
deep-listening resolving life.

Gratitude
Autumnal enthymematic taproot of spring-hope,
just as summer’s nutritional maturation
unfolds Origin of fertile decompositional mindfulness.

Gratitude
Why Thich Nhat Hanh thinks it important to smile
nutritiously.
Why Positive Deviance works.
Why Positive Psychology works and plays truths with beauty.
Why regenerative political discernment leads
healthier cooperative outcomes
polyculturally maturing
by monoculturally self-governing balancing networks
landscapes.

Mutual Gratitude
diastolically opens toward agapic/erotic love,
provokes lasting happiness and contentment
while sustained in a culture too often neglecting
more cooperatively embraced and active entertainments.
Necessary and sufficient,
requited,
for fulfilling mindful AS healthy sustainable physical life.

Gratitude
Respect for Earth’s grace,
and sustained Mutual Commons Place
leads through hope and toward summer’s full faith,
toward fall’s harvest of love and bliss;
where We Are One,
and prepare Winter’s cycle of hibernating Oneness
in Yin’s recessive advent,
facing toward Spring’s new birth.

When our intent chooses gratitude
practice becomes centered in mindfulness,
ecoconsciousness.

When intent is co-mindful reiterative modeling,
co-mentoring,
our mutually regenerative practice
loves life as grateful love ourselves,
Zero-sum economizes grace.

Becoming grace
requires balancing ecology of Nutritional Yang DeductiveCausaLaws
with Love’s Yin InductiveAffectiveGrace.
These nondual two are inextricably dipolar linked
as are noticing hope with understanding faith,
yang and yin,
leading, balancing together
toward political/economic health assurance comprehension.

Yin’s Grace whispers of hope for a meeting of minds.
To build Yang’s value,
resonance,
develop mindfulness,
sing and dance
pray and speak our story,
our history of nutritional laws of nature
with love’s grace of spirit,
with gratitude for all those whose voices ring
reverberate
in our ears and minds as bodies.

Gratitude
for autumn’s forest falling seed,
inoculating our soils with hope
to be held,
secure,
through winter’s politically competitive economy of cold discontent,
decomposition.

Winter brings purgative Advent of dormant hope
without current incarnation of embryonic faith,
which returns to 4-seasoned Earth each reborn Spring
of daily life.

This same gratitude enthymematic seed-root of Positive Deviance,
Appreciative Inquiry,
Basic Attendance,
CoEmpathic Political Trust
between pilgrims traveling Earth’s empathic consciousness
of life and death revolutions,
regenerating compost piles of truth as beauty memories.

Gratitude
A graced gestalt,
informed contrast with a nutritional law
of insufficient absorption
into ego-proprietor value-based gestalt,
either-or,
Win-Lose,
healthy-toxic affect.

Mindfulness
balances a bicameral cooperative grace thriving economy
with our midway TrimTab value
optimizing political survival economy.
This karma/grace gestalt
comprehends OurCommons
as EarthHome Network
to which we equally belong responsibly authoritative
more profoundly,
naturally,
truthfully,
realistically,
sustainably,
normatively,
ethically
than understanding this Commons
of Earth-Air-Water-Firey flames of information
as property we own,
instruct,
dominate,
enslave,
commodify,
and even lecture with great confusion sometimes.

We do no good presenting our best political-economic lectures
while standing empty-handed in our favorite garden
or forest
or mountain or sea or lake
or home;
far better still to listen to these speak their grace
across grateful ears and eyes and nose and mouth,
to know where we might best begin with bicameral hands
and bipedal vocational feet.

Deep Ecology of Gratitude
growth in depth of regenesis,
an economy of nutritional materialism
co-mentoring bodies of graceful co-ownership
through value transfers with other enculturations present,
past and future sentient beings
at their cooperative GiveGraceForward expansive expense,
co-invested interdependent multigenerational
benign parasites
disguised as nakedly benign Hosts.

To comprehend this EarthCommons
calls to listen,
with gratitude,
and thereby increase in mindfulness of abundant comprehensive potential,
graceful loving SpiritYin
with nutritional YangNature’s Laws and Primal Principles
of eco-balancing reciprocity.

 

 

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Organic Gratitude

Eastern stars light our responsibility
to ease ridiculously democratic suffering of Other.
Western horizons speak not of suffering
much less death as inevitable failure.

Dark horizons speak of pain,
and how to avoid it through Other as ourselves.

Eastern lights speak through gratitude
while Western dialects flow full ego-powered self-love.
Yet, in either case,
belief in trust meets feeling co-empathic
nutritional flows of patterned rhythm,
regeneration.

Eastern powers endorse political becoming of mindful midway relationships,
where Western gravity pulls toward ponderous efficiency
pounding out our own manifestly autonomous destiny.

We were wrong to aspire toward effectiveness
in absence of maturing mindfulness,
preforming our intent
as discerned through daily practices of consciousness.

An empty economic effectiveness cart
leads our politically suffering horse
without grace.
Empty cart-drawn horses
crippled,
imprisoned,
marginalized,
suboptimized power of potential ecoconscious balance,
bound to backward stumble.

It feels wrong to lose grace of present gratitude
in pursuit of love’s insured future effectiveness.
Gratitude attitude,
affective midway gestalt
essential to growing empathic trust capacity for love,
for mutual erotic pleasure
and agapic creativity,
mutual political grace with beauty,
body laughter with creative minds
celebrating health-inspiring life.

We evolve wrong to become so satiated by our effectiveness
we swim in delusion that we will avoid feeling pain
by ignoring universal suffering.

As we grow in capacity to integrate gratitude with suffering re-membered,
we will emerge a species embarrassed to allow delusions of suffering alone.

Suffering, like gratitude,
could become radically egalitarian,
reflecting no more or less than our separateness;
and it is this egalitarian separateness of ego identities
that entices us toward gratitude for hope
that you will notice and care for me as my extended family,
and I for you and our extending co-empathic trust as family
flying solidarity of suffering remembered
back to twined roots articulating
feeding polypathic ecoconsciousness
of Eastern stars with Western horizons.

Last remnants of a tattering Industry Evolution,
this Last PreMillennial ReGeneration
passes a too toxic baton as gift-gratitude-forward.
Nakedly embarrassed with fumbling ineptitude,
precisely where we had prayed so earnestly for powerful co-redemption.
Yet perhaps we also flirt with delusion that we did not do our best
with allowing our Cooperative PowerHorse to lead
whether our cart was recessively empty of gratitude
or abundantly overloaded with suffering.

But now,
these PostMillennial ReGenerators,
first tier of ReVolution’s Golden Age,
will continue to learn ecosystemic health regeneration
through small and great suffering/gratitude transitions.

This is our call to vocation,
to holiness,
to grateful suffering with Earth’s recycling passions,
to regenerate Earth’s emptying cart of nurturing produce,
to watch and listen,
to sing and march and dance,
to understand and incarnate
how and why and when we are most grateful to Become this Earth,
simulcast anthem echoing through each cell and cellphone,
across every heart and lap and laptop,
every radio and monitor
in every prison,
every asylum,
every shelter,
every school and capital and mind,
every tear in every eye a suffering tear of gratitude
for belonging to each naked Other,
investing in each Other’s respect
by caring for ourselves as each Other,
as one EarthTribe.

We can do this;
as we become this wilderness world together
bound by relentlessly effective gratitude.

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EarthTribe Sanctuary

Bird chatter echoes mutual greetings
psalms reciting Other’s praising morning light
promising their co-enrapture of return
before light fades to dusk this night.

Birds echo cathedrals of tree majestic chatter,
underflight of bees and insect buzz growing conjoined refrain
evening’s glad sung massive eulogy
consecrates this flying day’s compline,
grace delight.

Liturgy of Earth flight song
echoes through shattering light,
entering as exiting each shared dark mythic night.

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Love’s Waiting Warmth

“The nature of the Authentic [Love] Self is always already spiritually [naturally] motivated, turned on, tuned in, ready to respond to the radical [co-arising] immediacy of now [as LovePresent]. It [love] experiences no fear, no doubt, no hesitation, no procrastination. Your Authentic [EcoLove] Self is always already [elational] inspired and [inductively] spiritually on [full-flow potential empowered integration–diastatic] fire. This is a new manifestation and expression of enlightened awareness.” Andrew Cohen, “Evolutionary Enlightenment” (2011)

Awareness of Internal Landscape
as polypathic integrity,
eternally regenerating flame
of love as light,

AND

Awareness of External Landscape
as polycultural PresentYang
OVER
CoPresence YinYin,
Earth Goddess of Time
as Tao–EcoSacredSelf
born and yet-borne
within BiLateral-CoGravitational-Other.

When I cannot recognize kindness as love
within nature,
human or otherwise,
then I cannot experience Love’s ReGenerative Time
for human and OtherWise
nondually birthing Earth’s CoPresent Time.

I cannot recognize kindness in nature
until I remember this generosity of Ego’s incarnate birth,
adventuring through this lifetime,
learning love’s flame
from which I came
and within which we each return
to smolder diastatically
atmospherically Earth-bound
together,
regenerative recycling ecosystemic process
of light’s fine-timed fire.

Love squeezes through anger-cracks and fear-fissures,
leaking kindness and generosity,
gratitude for residency
within this regenerative string
of time from past timelessness
and heading right back into that same positive elational eternity
at threshold of incarnation’s demise,
to re-member our already Present-CoPresence of Love
as ProGenitor Eros
as regenetically temporal
bilaterally diastatic
YangUniverse Positive ConVexForm-Event
dipolar implied within
YinIntegrative (-,-) ConCave CoGravitational Flow Function,
counter-timeflow revolutionary power-potential
decompositional polypathic integrity.

All else is anger and fear, combined into
Ego’s Negative BiPolar Teachers,
negative Yang BusinessAsUsual dominating
YinYin Cognitive-Affective-Temporal
autistic dissonance
between LeftDeductive External Landscape
eco-normative information
and RightInductive Internal Landscape
ecological co-gravitational systemic function
(-/-)
double-binding reverse temporal-neural
aptic/synaptic function and trend flow,
so chronically precessive–
expanding toward future’s monocultural overpopulation–
or recessive–
shrinking away from bilateral decay of (-) past anger
and (-) future fear.

We are each
Kindness Outlyers and UnKind Predators,
co-messiahs and EgoCentric Publicans,
but it tremendously helps
when our UnKind Predators
are named and well-governed
AngerPast twinning FutureFear,
listening,
rather than always ranting and dominating Present,
noticing Love Present with PeaceCoPresence,
both aptic and synaptic-elational neural, positive,
rather than continuing to dominate our personal,
internal,
and political, external conversations
and discernment,
our dialectical logos lives of potentially integrative love;
two bicameral voices of LovePeace reasons as positive seasons,
those decomposing moments and events and mindfulness
of listening/noticing and teaching/learning heads
working bicamerally together.

I am continuously reborn
of Earth’s atmospheric nutrients
of time,
perfectly formed to my mindbody,
filling my nose and our noses and lungs
while caressing our exposed skins and hair and feathers,
and eyes and ears,
our TransParent CoPresence,
within as without,
Yang and YinYin Universal atmospheric bicameral time,
folding,
refolding,
unfolding,
prefolding future regenerations
of memory
as EarthTime’s CoPresent Loving Kindness.

Earth’s Hearts
anticipate Left’s deductive-reductive Diamonds,
as ballistically violent Clubs
precessively predict
dipolar balance
with fractal-ballasted Spades
digging up ever more nondual co-arising fuel
feeding Hearts with full-fired Diamonds.

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Permacultural Abundance

This is Thanksgiving Day,
so I want to continue my interior conversation,
made perhaps too exterior,
by quoting from Sacred Economics, p. 123, (Charles Eisenstein)
about “flow of abundance,” my nuance in brackets:

“Please understand here that I do not mean to deter you from opening to the flow
of abundance.
To the contrary–
because when enough people do this,
the money
[and health]
system will change
to conform to the new [cooperative] belief
[in optimizing health as wealth].

Today’s money system rests on a foundation
of [both power and flow] Separation.
It [Win-Lose gaming strategy]
is as much an effect as it is a cause
of our perception [and evolutionary enculturation]
that we are discrete and separate subjects
in a universe that is Other.

Opening to abundance can only happen when we let go
of this [ego- and anthro-centric] identity
and open to the richness of our true,
[eco]connected being.
This new [co-arising] identity wants no part of usury.”
[but is drawn intuitively and rationally
to (0)-interest co-operative,
regenerative,
transactional,
primal,
eco-relationship consciousness.]

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Synergisms of Integrity

What exactly is the primal and primary permaculturist’s agenda?

To optimize ecological health
endosymbiotically and ectosymbiotically,
both within and without,
yet nondually;
two Yang/Yin
Convex/Concave
faces of our universal permacultural love project–
sometimes rather loosely called “human nature.”

There is nothing even the most ruthless sociopath could do
to stop this evolutionary advent,
because this positive health culture
emerges from competitive monocultural Business As Usual
as day emerges from night,
as summer springs forth from winter’s dual-dark purgation
of matter synergizing energetic root systems,
decomposing regenetic folds of time’s co-arising gravity.

Ego is my local environment
struggling to breathe within ecologos,
balancing nature-systems.

Consistent reiteration of gratitude
for each breath
and heart beat
and thought or silence
co-arises cosmological synergy;
Endo- within ecto-symbiotic
positive evolution.

An articulating economy of love
grows co-arising generosity as stimulant,
with gratitude as uniting response.
This metasystemic stimulus-response
as generosity-gratitude
establishes a positive double-binding trend
toward polyculturally inclusive outcomes.

Effective permaculturists produce self-optimizing
climaxing
polyculturally beloved outcomes;
economic,
ecological,
binomially systemic,
and positive psychological.

Being against eco-integrity
is like being for ego-hypocrisy;
it just doesn’t happen in nature.

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Apple Application

Somber red apple branches
sagging down into green orchard grass
lumpy loaded with solid ripe ready fruit,

Watch pale yellow butterflies huddle down
then spray up and out a geyser of light vibrant flight
scattering and skipping above their sun-drenched forest,

A sea of windy winding rivers
shadowed by red mount trees of deep-rooted life,
making sweet love with flighty buttered wings
sweeping and beating co-gravitating gratitude.

Red Team too old and wizened
to count their darkening days as numbered.
Yellow Team too light and funny flighty
to bother commodifying frenzied beating wings of day.

Separate huddles,
yet coherently co-arising Team
of Earth’s diversely enspacing Times.

Orchard hunting follows Win-Win ectosymbiotic norms
of solidarity through mutual subsidiarity,
co-arising cooperativity
of hunter functions with hunted octave
applecultured frequencies,
this hunt emerges through all four fractal Golden Seasons
before revolving cosmological
and ecological
and analogical
and just plain logical closure,
to begin another why and how hunting adventure
within and toward Paradise.

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Bending Nature’s Bow

The way of Heaven,
Is it not like the bending of a bow?
The top comes down and the bottom-end goes up.
The extra is shorted, the insufficient is expanded.
(Laotse, “Bending the Bow,” pp. 305-6, 1942, Modern Library, Lin Yutang, ed.)

The way of economic paradise,
is it not like the bending of a bow?
The top comes down as the poverty-end goes up.
The fattest are shortened,
as the insufficient expand.
It is the way of Beloved Community
to take away from those upstream, with too much,
by mutually giving those without enough downstream.

Not so with human nature’s way:
We take away freedom and power from those without mainstream value
And give them as tribute to those with too much.
Who can have enough and to spare to coredeem the entire world?
Only Wisdom.
Therefore the Sage acts and transacts,
but does not possess or dispossess,
Accomplishes but lays claim to no credit or deficit,
Because he has no wish to seem economically or ecologically superior in value.
(Adapted from ibid)

Bending this permacultural bow of bilateral boundaries,
between host and client,
rich and poor,
stimulus and response,
self and other,
Yang and Yin,
Left and Right,
full summer’s incubating heat
with deep winter’s decompositional compost,
until all four Seasons equivalently fulfill,
diastolically complete their mutually integrative functions.

When seen together,
through Left’s “both-and” ecological
as Right’s “not-not” logical dipolar landscapes,
through life’s seasons of well-fired water and airy subterranean soil,
through C through F closed-fractal
as A through G regeneratively open pregnant octaves,
through annual win-win economic balancing strategies
reflecting perennial win-lose ecological cycles
of (0)-sum slow revolutionary harmonic balance,
we can each and all shoot comprehensive conscious arrows
into fertile post-millennial enculturation.

Living,
bow-hunting each moment as my last
and our more polyculturally inclusive bilateral last step
toward ego death’s eco-ionic rebirth.

This more fully organic mind-culture we are hunting
and farming,
a rich composting Holding SpaceTime
of (0)-centric positive polynomial values
appositively balancing,
tipping,
exchanging,
transporting negative not-not non-named,
ignored, neglected, dispossessed and undervalued Disvalues,
lurking behind our Fractal Commons of recycling cognitive dissonance,
slowly pulling into enlightening days and Transitioning Generation
to explore harmonies of scale and pitch,
and developmental learning stages,
proportional polyculturing designs and cooperative guilds
to optimize Positive Systemic Teleology
by diminishing eisegetical “unconscious” dissonance
from our global cooperative orthopraxis–
jump-starting universal co-empathy.

Dynamic subterannual understory,
regeneratively reseeding germination of Holding SpaceTime’s
Zero-Sum eco-logical Four Seasons of growth and decay cycles;
too often confused with stagnant ego-serving Orthodoxy
degenerating Earth’s gasping Business-As-Usual breath.

Time optimizes sustainable Ego-Yang’s diastolic inhalation
through our Self-Subsidizing Eco-Yin-with-Yin cooperative exhalation.

Investing in Ego-reducing praxis for CQI,
Bucky’s least dissonant way to improve failing systems
is to upgrade their environmental ecosystems,
their ecological balance and holistic harmonious potential flow streams,
especially their root-systemic perennial enculturation environments
to grow more effective year-round economic nutrients, collaterally,
Positive Teleological Value,
and less cognitive dissonant Ways and Means toward profligate hope,
Truth and Consequences for generating inclusive faith,
in The Good Life and Death of regenerative, coredeemer, love,
a graceful messianic incarnation
of post-millennial Tao ReGenesis.

Balancing dia-praxis,
including comprehensive consciousness dialogue,
grows from primally rooted regenerative fractal systemic practice.
Positive practice intent is not even possible to grow
without a Positive Teleological Assumption,
too often attenuated as merely enthymematic wish fullness.

People harboring insanity, depression, opposition,
sociopathology,
high stressed over-populated anxiety,
are less well-oriented to Positive Teleological Orthopraxis
due to a lack of sufficient practice
unveiling contenting implications within contentious dissonance,
therapeutic relationships of mutual basic attendance
and cooperative mentorship.

The way of Beloved Climax Community
and Communication,
is it not like the bending of a Full Four Season
permacultural bow facing bilateral namaste
for life as death reborn?

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Stuff I Wonder

What does it feel like to wake up into your skin?

Your day?

What do you feel first most days?

Is it in any way influenced by gratitude,

or totally given over to worry,

anxiety about your shortness of time?

 

Is this life the one you had in mind as a child?

When did this that you do to fill your days and years become your dream?

Or is it your nightmare?

Or something in between?

If so, which parts are closest to your dream

and what were you doing

and how old were you

and who did you live with

as this became your dream?

Were these relationships good dream mentors for you?

How did you get to this day, this place, this vocation?

When did the nightmares start

and are they something more than the fear

of your own cherished dream’s loss?

 

What is that one thing that sets you apart,

that is your unique character fingerprint?

How is your identity unique from all other identities alive now,

or in the past,

or in future generations?

And, if your uniqueness is no one thing,

but a constellation of attributes,

characteristics, dreams, fears, wisdom,

aspirations, relationships, memories,

then how is any one of those unique to you,

and if none is,

after due consideration,

then how are you not part of me

and all that is related to you

that is also related to others

that are less directly related to you,

on back to the emergence of memory capacity itself?

 

What do you imagine was that first memory?

Do you think it was of longing or belonging,

or somehow both,

like the contentment waiting within harmonic contention,

resolution waving toward our future,

still waiting in noncontentious background?

 

Is this content intuited as in-format-ionic,

to know and love nature’s wise re-solutions?

Evolution and Revolution each grow, respectively,

Yin- and Yang-tempered resolutions,

optimizing balanced incoming diastolic form

and outgoing memory-folded content?

Really?

 

It’s that prime permaculturally balanced,

optimizing enculturation’s meaning

by minimizing  future’s monoculturally rapacious dissonance?

Really?

 

 

 

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Advent Light

Maybe it could be safe

to fade off into the night

with gratitude for light.

 

Perhaps deforming identity

might belong to adventure,

a conciliating pilgrimage

of floating light

drawing us toward each Other’s

original intent.

 

Why couldn’t decay function salvifically,

absorbent healing hidden within ego’s hubris memories,

uncovering carnation’s form

revealing unmitigated synergy

as boundless light’s economy of grace.

 

Light composting fuel’s individuating form,

to sustain ego’s burned out wick,

we pass through light’s regeneration,

flying graceful paths not yet taken.

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