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The world is movings of movings
Nothing more
So we who move cause the world
To swirl & spin
To stop & go
To change dance steps to slide &
Move away & back & sway
So the world causes us to move
So we who move cause the world

:- Doug.

Why did physicists see a quantum world & then nearly a century later process people see a societal world of emergence, and a world of webbing show up in the consciousness of all? Is there cause and effect? Scout and main party? More importantly, how do we explicitly move into a world beyond Newton? There are new paths here: can we see which ones we fear so much we must force open our eyes to see?

:- Doug.

It is time to sit with you, friend. WEave the grieve.

:- Doug.

The grey clouds are closing in on the blue skies. But we know there is blue up top. The grey clouds tell us there is same old only same old, and all we can do is rearrange the grey shapes. The blue tells us there is a way out. We grow dull from the same skies: so too we grow dull from seeing nothing new in our work and play and neighbors and reading. Dull, numb or alive, groaning and dancing: do we have this choice? Do we dare shape our worlds? No. We have chosen without choosing: we shall be sated, sating and besotted consumers.

:- Doug.

We are a consumer society: we define ourselves to be consumers. This is the highest we aspire to, and all is done to make for the well-being of consumers. Consume we say, Consume! And this leads to satiety and to marginalizing those who are not sated, who cannot be sated with the way things are. Groaning is necessary, but we, as consumers, only groan from having eaten too much.

We cannot then hear the groans of those who have other reasons to groan. Nor can we see reason to dance in the streets for joy and for being with one another. 9-11 was a chance to groan and instead the king told us to go consuming.

We try to dull any sensations we have by consuming. More precisely, we try to find our real sensations by finding more to consume: and yet we find no feelings, no authenticity there.

:- Doug.

Where is the groaning?
If we hear it is surely ours
Let us respond
Let us respond:
Where is our dancing?

:- Doug.

You’re the foreigners, the outsiders: you have to invite yourselves in.

:- Doug.

We are consumers
We make no commitments
We make no sisters nor brothers nor neighbors
Even our change moves us toward satiety
Our caring has become lethargy
We have reduced our promises
To trades
And our souls we have beaten into mouths

:- Doug.

If you had only two heads and three eyes, where would you put them?

:- Doug.

Is reality always rational? Can it be rationalized even most of the time? The king always tries to explain reality rationally.

:- Doug.

There are some things we deliberately put in code so only those we want will understand: not the children, not the the king, not those who lack understanding. This perhaps is what Jesus meant.

:- Doug.

You can be
a force for good
together
do you choose

:- Doug.

Return to
giving without hope
of return

:- Doug.

The power is always in the
act of inviting
If your offer is not
picked up by the other
It does not die unless you let it
you can pick it up, blow off the dust
& kiss it on its way again
You will know that’s where the power is
When another accepts it
The power is always in the
act of accepting
The power is always in the
action between us
And your invitation
started it on its round

:- Doug.

Own anything you want
in your Will you can!
& then give it away
to whomever you wish!
Give the White House to your garbage collector
the moon to President Lincoln
to your children the entire
saved-from-your-lifetime
contents of your kiss-bank
give your grandfather to your grandchildren

:- Doug.

Thich Nhat Hanh has led peace delegations, created relief organizations, founded a volunteer corps for youth. Here is a guy who sits on his meditation cushion hours each day, and yet he has done so much. This is not a puzzle, but deep truth—the meditation cushion has a spring in it!

:- Doug.

Divinity is arising
light steam from each of us
no breath blows them yet
together: mingling, dancing, turning

:- Doug.

Converse!
Rip the grey cloth
Activate
The divinity among us

:- Doug.

When we converse we are ripping the grey cloth that prevents us from activating the divinity among us.

:- Doug.

How is chemotherapy and radiation like the older medical practice of blood-letting?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 949

There is work that needs doing. We are able. That is all we need to have in mind. We may get paid, we may not. The point is that people have need of us.

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I invite one thing: converse to rip open our collective divinity!

:- Doug.

When we converse we discover our divinity.

:- Doug.