Ziran

Happy Birthday, sent with gratitude.

^^ love this ^^ ------------------------------------------------ "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."

It depends on my spouse. For example, if she is adopting the role of pure-love, then, I would adopt the role of strict-justice. Otoh, if I am the solitary arbiter, I would adopt the role of mercy: strict justice >>> inclining towards >>> love.

"Possessing a tiny bit of the infinite is possessing the whole kit and kaboodle." "Deja vu, all over again."

Suppose that a child grows up and becomes a rapist. Their father, strict-justice, excommunicates and disowns them. Their mother, pure-love, gives them safe harbor, and hides them in the basement from the authorities. In this example, the father, strict-justice, is restraining their natural inclination towards their child. At the same time, their mother, pure-love, is reaching out with both arms.

... of course they do, don't be ridiculous.

impulse see above

It's OK, you're doing fine. Go back to the co-arising. Both the expanding and contracting are happening simultaneously. They are concurrent, and omnipresent. They're superimposed on each other like tissue paper, or like the aroma of flowers in a bouquet.

rage is a reaction

The word choice, the pairing, evokes "throwing it all away"? Emphatically letting go? From the "bottom-of the-heart", literally from the ... loins? or, maybe? The word choice evokes extreme nonchalance? It's a masturbatory sort of letting go? That's why I asked. Sure. Glue traps + Dog Food + Peanut-Butter = rage in the form of a rodent fighting for its life.

Good question. Justice is a physical manifestation of the energetic principle: "restraining". It exists at the extreme end of a continuum in contradistinction with Love which is a physical manifestation of the energetic principle "out-reaching". The energetic principle "above", in general: Restraining <<>> Out-Reaching The physical manifestation "below", in particular: Strict-Justice <<>> Pure-Love

It's rage. Nothing more, nothing less.

What's the utility in this imagery? Why choose to associate "letting go of everything" with "fucking"?

"The Dao of Doh! Making Doh into Donuts" - By Homer Simpson

contrast Consciousness possesses the attribute "conscious". Consciousness is a category. Knowing is limited cognition. Your loss

~grins~ A homer-simpson "WooHoo" is warranted?

"With every solid step, the ground is pushing back."

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It's a natural consequence of multiplicity emerging from a very special type of infinity, a unity lacking any division. This emergence is ongoing, eternal, always and forever. Each individual of the collective must, necessarily, push beyond itself, and the others to receive its vitality from the source, while simultaneously, the eternal-one, is rejecting it. The imagery/metaphor traditionally used are seroents striking at their source which is always and forever "turning the other cheek", permitting the snakes to cleave and receive nourishment. The will to live is this simultaneously leaping-striking-and-cleaving force.

I vote 'yes'. Stones are completely submissive with one and only one exception. The stones are declaring themselves as "stones".

^^ nice!

"Opposite and opposed, when locked in stasis, are free in all ways but one."

OK, ok how about this? "An open mind is the difference between a voice in the woods and a calling."

"Even a broken clock is right twice a day" "The willow submits to the wind and propers"