Wholeness is / Duality is not

in wholeness lies

a quiet infinite vastness

where form/emptiness springs forth

and yet wholeness

is changeless

timeless

measureless

yet

in the traumatized land

of our enculturated duality

lies the realm of

conditioned egoic dysfunction

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our culture’s ideas

collectively

formulating

good and bad

create suffering

delusion

and the enemy

they are two sides

of the same coin

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fragmentation

and conflict

the ongoing drama

perpetuated

into the construct of our thinking

our thinking

projects its dysfunction

onto the pallet of the world

painting a vision of war

without knowing it

this is a dream

not truth

through our conditioning

we dream “reality”

of our beliefs

into our perspective

without knowing it

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without knowing it

we perpetuate sorrow

it is not in enculturated thought

where the answer lies

it lies in the quiet

a place that is directionless

a place where one has

to stop and listen

and not run

or fight against

where one dives into listening

without an agenda

and empties the mind

to quiet on its own

in the quiet

that flows in all directions

wholeness is tapped into -

what is at the core of oneself

and yet is selfless

here one sees that

wholeness is pathless

and duality disappears

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here is love unconditioned

enemies disappear

war is seen as a joke

hatred is seen as ignorance

hierarchy dissolves

greed is no longer

the pursuit of wealth and individualized success

is seen as a fruitless sorrowful endeavor

while all isms are seen

as rooted in fear and despair

only held onto

by beliefs and insecurities

all dissolves

but truth

wholeness is

flowing through all

which can’t be

measured or contained

here i am

living in the midst

of all the dysfunction

free

moving with a completely different beat

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dance here with me

and let’s together

break free from the systematic mess

of this sorrowful culture

and let loose into

nature

love

health

and into the dance of what is