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How to be a Mensch

BECOMING A MENSCH

Stand up full strength, stride inside yourself,
rimming over,
fully caffeinated male…
Fill the frame… with all your humanity,
no more holding back
no more crouching down
Come forth male God incarnate
light the way…generous spirit
pregnant man with Mensch inside you…
Mazeltov! It’s a 144 pound mensch.
We’ve waited for years,
inside the sack of pain or shame,
the womb of struggle and faith,
the vagina of “It’s about time”
You surround each moment with a giant L’chiam
and echoes of “To Life!”
reverberate into every resonant heart
Yea! Mr. Mensch
as you breath vitality into families, relationships,
communities and friends
you are such good company
companion,
slide over and ooze into me,
walk with me talk to me of heaven,
speak to me of joy
Show up manly soul
emerge,
raise your self to the full height
of grandeur man
You have arrived, undiminished,
arms open,
exuding splendor, majesty
and the humility to see it
in all who cross your vision.
You radiate wealth, gusto, effervescence
full pockets bursting with goodies
you enter our space and throw a mitzvah
make it a party
You reek love, you sly Mensch
you drip hope
you dish out possibility, free of charge
You flavor our yearning with the warm spice
of your exuberant presence
you nourish our minds with a buoyant knowing
a knowing that reaches into the First Source and Mensch
who has charged you to deliver his ubiquitous menschness
into every corner of time,
to impassionate every truth-filled desire.
to open up Mensch stands all across the world,
advertising the Menschood
giving out your Mensch brochures—
each warm, intoxicating smile that surges through your love
You are a mirror
for my latent, true, rich, abundant maleness
how gracious you are…
you make room inside you for my woman
you model exquisite intimacy,
the male and female at home in us
two hands clasped in gratitude
2 palms facing the world
ready to receive,
eager to give
What a present you are, you Menschness
friend to the earth,
compadre to the little, the bereft…
those who long for their Menschness,
though they know not what it means
or how to sound it in their person
A long standing grace has made it possible for you to appear now,
to take stage on planet earth
as you walk across the sand, the dirt, the highway,
songs spring from your footsteps
songs of Elohim and Adonai of Allah and Krishna,
of Buddha, Christ, and Mother-Son
As you step fully into this space,
we greet you with a bountiful “Good Yontif!”
Good Shabas!
…each moment suffused with Shabat,
the time to rest in God,
in the revelation of how Menschy we all can be…
when we discard doubt,
and step naked as a budding shoot from the showers of purification
into the full open embrace of renewed innocence
There you are, you hunk of Mensch,
luxuriating in self delight
forgiving the past,
trusting the future
bonded to this sacred instant
where your face beams assurance
to our waiting, eager, hungry pubescent souls
Shine forth, Sir Mensch,
Be Knighted in a diamond studded shout, of
“Hallelujah!
You bring life to the words,
“Bawruch ataw adonoi elohaynu melech hawolawm…
“Blessed art thou, Oh Eternal, Our God, King of the Universe…”
Father of all Mensches.
for all are full bodied total beings in your sight;
that’s what makes you our Daddy Mensch

What’s an Infinity to Do?

“What’s Real and How Would you Know?” So, what’s an Infinity to do? Where is it going to spill if it wants to diversify, if it is already filling up everything…always? Why, the finite, of course. “What’s that?” asks infinity of itself. “Well…that’s what would happens if I separate the In from the Finite”…There you … Continued

THE HUMAN STOCK EXCHANGE, WHAT’S REAL and HOW WOULD YOU KNOW IT?

What is “real” and how would you know? Is something real if it has weight? Mass? What about an experience…Is that real? What makes experience real? Is the memory of the experience “real”? Is any movement you make real? With your body? With your thoughts? Movement of the heart? Feelings? Are they real? Is anything … Continued

Swimming in a sea of fear… faith provides the oxygen to get you under the surface…long enough to tap into ultimate breath so you can swim with the those irridiscent fishe that don’t know that they’re part of one of God’s art projects The waves really do look tumultous in the middle of fear and … Continued

THE LAUGHING HEART AND SPIRAL DYNAMICS

How the Laughing Heart provides the tools, methods and context for advancing the six memes in the first tier toward the second Integral tier. (q.v. “Spiral Dynamics” http://www.spiraldynamics.com/book/SDreview_Dinan.htm) It seems that to consciously and actively participate in the evolutionary spiral, we’d want to advance each meme to its highest development and to assist it in … Continued

HOW THE LAUGHING HEART CAN ADVANCE THE MEMES TOWARD THE INTEGRAL LEVEL

How the Laughing Heart provides the tools, methods and context for advancing the six memes in the first tier toward the second Integral tier. (q.v. “Spiral Dynamics”) It seems that to consciously and actively participate in the evolutionary spiral, we’d want to advance each meme to its highest development and to assist it in transitioning … Continued

A RADICAL PERSPECTIVE FOR AN EXTREME TIME!

THE LAUGHING HEART, A Vision for Radical Change PURPOSE, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES, Part I “A hands on approach to transformation” From Bill Bradley and his book, The New American Story “The only things that can stop us are fear, ignorance, self-centeredness, and greed.” From Marianne Williamson’s Healing of America “What we lack is an evolved … Continued

CAUGHT BETWEEN WHAT YOU WANT TO & WHAT YOU SHOULD DO?

Escaping from the Want/Should jail cell of your own making… your “Get Out of Jail Free Card, Part I Many of us spend a great deal of our life caught in the want/should jail. It’s a simple cell…on one side beckoning to you is what you want to do. Your expectation: you’ll feel relieved or … Continued

IS GOD MOODY, TOO?

“Hmm…what do I feel like doing today?” wonders God. Let me guess. God is in the mood for…love–to experience life in his/her universe loving through and as us? Possibly, but, as it turns out, she can only do that consistent with her nature. That’s where you come in. “But…what is her nature? Isn’t it love?” … Continued