The best way to maintain a healthy society is to encourage imagination and truth telling. The fact that the arts remain underfunded in the American culture limits the movement in terms up of upward mobility in all levels of society. More valuable then wealth or power....Imagination!

The telling of half truths or telling lies of omission en mass for the sake of "fitting in" limits the credibility of a society. More valuable then wealth or power.....Truth telling!

The thought that we are "really" running our own lives and than acting accordingly is all well and good, until... what we do runs counter to that which  is "really" running our lives.

Lalepop'

To paint a pretty face
on an otherwise ugly beast,
is like dancin' at the dinner
where you're the featured feast.

(Wrote this while considering the knack we have for putting syrup on a mustard pie and accepting it over and over as beauty and good taste.)

The value of a fruit,
is not in it's size,
but in it's sweetness.

The flow of wealth was to begin at the top and find it's way through society and we all were to be raised up, even the poor....Well that was the latest best idea of many years ago. The reality has disclosed  itself  differently.

Greed and abuse of power have gradually choked off the flow of sustenance as the lessors have apparently been judged unworthy  or invisible.

The justice, in the circumstances, is unswerving and says,   "when wealth does not flow downward,  Poverty and violence, like fire, flow upward".

That which had been designed by the best of thoughts to be a fountain of life giving waters,  greed and abuse of power,  have turned  into a rising fire and that's where we are now at the beginning stages...how many prisons do u want?

It's not like we haven't been warned , it's more like many of us fell asleep on the job and became absorbed in power, wealth and self interests with little regard to one's fellow man... Just a fact!

Pending justice, unfortunately,  to those greedy folks no longer willing to help shoulder the burdens of their fellow humans or contain their personal excesses, will be that they find themselves trapped on the upper floor of the metaphorical "Societal building on fire"!

.... SURPRISED?.. Don't be!

When a tree begins to fall, oft times, it falls!

Simplify!

Lalepop'

"LaLepop', the misunderstanding is in the not knowing, that in fact, the world is only something seen of the mind itself, thus clinging to the multitudinousness of external objects, clinging to the notions of being and nonbeing, oneness and otherness, bothness and not-bothness, existence and non-existence, eternity and non-eternity,and thinking that they have a self-nature of their own, all of which rises from the discriminations of the mind and is perpetuated by habit-energy, and from which they are given over to false imagination.

 It is all like a mirage in which springs of water are seen as if they were real. They are thus imagined by animals who, made thirsty by the heat of the season, run after them. Animals, not knowing that the springs are an hallucination of their own minds, do not realise that there are no such springs.

 In the same way, LaLepop', that most basic misunderstanding, causes the mind to burn with the fires of greed, anger and folly, finding delight in a world of multitudinous forms, thoughts obsessed with ideas of birth, growth and destruction, not well understanding what is meant by existent and non-existent, and being impressed by the erroneous discriminations and speculations since beginningless time, thus fall into the habit of grasping this and that and thereby becoming attached to them.That attachment, that misunderstanding, is the source of all human suffering and Love is the source of all Truth"!

Lalepop'