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An Ardent Law Argued

When the state fears the people
     The people are citizens of state.
When the people fear the state 
    The people are subjects of state.

Summation  of the additives, life and liberty  equates to happiness. 

All are entitled to pursue their own definition of happiness free from any definition  that would be imposed by another individual or collective.  Any imposition on one’s liberty is a similar imposition on right to life and subtractive of one’s total happiness. 

One has the right to defend in whole or in part  the principles of this equation  that is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

This is not  a right  that  can in any way be infringed upon , it is a fundamental law of nature. As this is not a declaration of rights but an acute observation of natural law. 

Those who would be governed choose to allow those who govern to infringe on these rights  to the extent that they derive some societal/collective benefit.  Any  individual must choose whether any subtraction of rights is justified. 

Defense of natural law requires no declaration as it is writ by the laws of nature and self- evident  to all, who are part of nature. 

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Spell casting

What was one concealed, 
    The mysteries of the cosmos,
    The aspiring mystikos
To self would reveal.

Conscious that there is only one religious source, self, and that outward displays of one’s religious observances are but metaphor of inner observance, creed.

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Deathless Dead Duck

A fourth of the flock, 
By the three forgot,
Near night’s opened door,
Lifeless laid on the floor. 

Life’s brief dream,
Fallen leaf in a stream,
Mere memory evermore. 

Matter matters not,
But carnage in rot,
By wood-handled spade
In earthen-clay laid. 
To higher realms I pray you soar.
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Ariya-sacca (Noble Truths)

[woodcut no. 2]
Cattāriariya-saccāni (The Four Noble Truths)

  dukkha (truth of suffering) 
  tanhā (truth of attachment)
  nirodha (truth of renunciation)
  magga (truth of the path):

    sammā-ditthi (right view)
    sammā-sankappa (right intent)
    sammā-vacca (right speech)
    sammā-kammanta (right action)
    sammā-ājīva (right livelihood)
    sammā-vāyāma (right effort) 
    sammā-sati (right mindfulness) 
    sammā-samādhi (right concentration)
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Blue Creek

I have no identity
But what you would have of me. 
A friend I would be, 
Or son, brother or father, 
To your mother, sister, daughter. 
But If you ask me,
Nothing here to see. 

Guitar on the knee,
Twangy variations of Bluesy E
With a found blue A.T.C. 
Somewhere south of Tennessee.
Where the Creek would  roam,
When they were free,
Before losing their homes and way
For the sake of foreign liberty.
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Delights of the Arcane in the Garden

Dhamma wheel 
From The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
“All that is born, all that is created all the elements of nature are interwoven and united with each other. 
All that is composed shall be decomposed;
Everything returns to its roots;
Matter returns to the origins of matter. 
Those who have ears, let them hear.”