Let's be Negative!

photo by Tsuh YangThis morning I heard yet again a person equate sad and negative, and suggest that someone with negativity (which was actually sadness) had some understandable reason for being so, and deserved compassion therefore. 

Do you pity negativity? 

what about negative ions? negative feedback loops?

what about shabbat? a day of rest.

what about darkness? death.

says the sutra on the Identity of Relative and Absolute:

Light and darkness are a pair, like the foot before and the foot behind in walking.

Be so-called positive if it pleases you but you cannot escape the negative. 

Tumbling toward death
with open arms
one fist, one palm
heart aflutter

November 8, 2021

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[Monica Raymond]

bless you, thank you, holding you in my mind and heart as you tumble...