It’s like you’re making a soup with everything you ‘pay attention’ to or interact with. Each ingredient lends not merely its »flavor, but the »values that orient your awareness of and interaction with it. You will have to eat this soup later. Because we also make the soup together, we should realize that others will add to it. We will »all have to eat the communal soup, as well as our personal soup.

In such a dire situation, it is »almost always best to »add nothing to the water. The exceptions are those ingredients that we know will not overwhelm the flavor, will become richer or more savory over time, and neither spoil nor poison the water.

In our modern circumstances, this is extremely challenging, as the contexts themselves »demand that we defect from our natural desire to preserve the soup’s nurturing character. We are literally »paid (or traded with) to acquire our attention, authorization, participation, time, effort, habit…

It turns out, however, that it is not so much what we add to the soup as what we refuse to add, that turns out to be fundamentally medicinal and worthy. Noble. True.

It is what we resist doing that creates the free energy that is required to see beyond our habitual submission to and agreement with forms and frames that poison the soup. Personally, and communally. In many of our lives the soup is so bad, that we would be far better off with just clean water.

Clarifying the water produces something like »lift to birds. When it is fraught with garbage, media, shadows and isolation… it is as if the bird of us is chained to the ground. We cannot know the sky this way…