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A Green Party Future's avatar

Your practical goals are exactly what the USA needs. I've grown so opposed to the duopoly for everything they cling to in maintaining the current sociopolitical climate. This past election I came to be aware more deeply of how imperialism is rooted in hatred of humanity and the love and lust for money. The current system of material gains sacrifice spiritual gains always.

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darius/dare carrasquillo's avatar

I love this writing, i can say that honestly, but i cannot say i love other humans honestly! Lol

What i mean by that is that i have to breathe through a forest of caveats due to the complexity of behaviors that humans express.

I love the art of nature, which includes creating humans, perhaps the “tortured artist” species.

I love the bitter beauty of youthful stupidity, and the exhausted wisdom that sometimes comes with age and reflection. I love how we can turn our pain into art if we choose. My love exists on this draconic level. The grace of death, the excitement of ephemera.

I’m reminded of zuowang pith instructions: sit like a mountain, mind like dead ash.

Loving the red dust, swirling feverishly on the wind, but let go of it all, let it come and go, rise and fall.

If I don’t practice this version of intimacy, I can’t deal with people. Because the pain/dysfunction in the organ system is too great, there is too much fixation, craving and aversion to content, too much grabbing at particular granules of red dust.

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