Can robots be equal?

one of the weird and wonderful things
about being human
is that in a certain way
we have only
three choices:

high functioning robot

low functioning robot

awake


in our awake state
we are right here,
now

another person
is a wonder to us,
like a flower,
a redwood tree,
a sunset
perfect
just as they are

awake people
can love,
can see others as amazing
don't get into who is
better, gooder
all that
nonsense

asleep people,
the high and low
robot times in
our life:
we can't love,
we can want
demand,
crave
worry

worship others
look down
on them

can't be equal,
so well always live in stress:
who is better than me,
who is less

ah, the worn out feeling
of trying to live a lie

and then,
at any moment we can wake
up out of that
and
love
again

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today at the Brain Plasticity Blog
a fun movement lesson for strengthening
our real core:
the lower back,
which holds up upright
and propels us as we walk and run,
and allows our hands and arms to be free
when we sit and want to type
or play the piano
or draw a beautiful picture of
a rose or a redwood tree

Short and Sweet, Short and Awful

Short and Sweet:
we can be awake
to the moment

Short and Awful:
when we aren't awake,
we have two choices:
low functioning robot
or
high functioning robot

Scary?
Exciting?

Easier for a camel to get through the eye
of a needle
than
a rich man to get to heaven

Was Jesus just talking about money
here?
Or was it the bloating up
of me, me, me
that comes from money

In low functioning robot:
we don't like
ourselves
and don't like
the world
and blame just about everything
but
our own
thinking

In high functioning robot:
"we manage our time well,"
we are
"busy,"
we "get things done,"
we know how to
be-have,
we are "nice,"
we say the "right things,"
and all we are missing
in this wonderful program
of the Well Functioning Me Program
is
ourselves
now
in the present

not perfect
not imperfect

just:
ah,
alive


Short and Sweet
Short and Awful

take your pick