September 13, 2024 – A

All Donald Trump is good for
is hate and fear.
If you are going to vote for Donald Trump,
it is because he has filled you
with hate and fear,
and continues to do so
every time he speaks.

Donald Trump is a pumping station
for hate and fear.

Fear and hate are mutually arising emotions.
They play off of each other.
They validate each other.
They need each other.

Reduce your hate
and your fear quotient drops.
Reduce your fear
and your hate quotient drops.

Try this experiment for me.
Don't listen to anything 
Donald Trump or his Assigns say
for two days,
and don't think about Donald Trump
or about anything that fans
your hate and fear during that time.
Spend all of you available time
during that time
in emptiness, stillness, silence.

Emptiness means emptying yourself
of all of your emotions, thoughts,
memories, impressions, beliefs, convictions,
certainties, etc.
so that there is nothing to stir-up
your hate and fear.

You are creating a space for yourself
that is as empty as the place between breaths.
To get to that place,
inhale for a count of five,
exhale for a count of five,
pause your breathing for a count of ten.
Repeat the process.

Do this as often and for as long
as you need to 
to establish and maintain 
an inner environment of 
emptiness, stillness and silence.

Spend two days creating,
maintaining, sustaining,
emptiness, stillness and silence.

Being aware of your thoughts,
but disengaged from your thoughts.
You can do this and still carry out
your business as usual,
but with distance between yourself
and what you are doing,
separate from all of it.

This is a meditative space
between you and your life,
separating you from all that is going on.
So that you are just aware enough to function,
but not so aware that you are on the cusp
of not functioning at all as a human being
and becoming a robot gorging on hate and fear.

You are creating a seeing/hearing/knowing/observing
place for yourself within your life.
Becoming aware of how your life impacts you
and turns you into an automation,
an automaton,
a functionary,
a robot,
a thug.

Trump turns all of his followers
into functionaries, robots and thugs
by feeding them a steady diet of hate and fear.

It is what Hitler did with the German people
in turning them against the Jews,
by filling them with hate for and fear of the Jews.

The right kind of emptiness, stillness and silence
frees you from the power of those who would
control you by telling you they will save you
from what they make you hate and fear.
They won't save you from anything.
Only you can save yourself
by turning off, tuning out, staying away from
hate and fear,
and embracing emptiness, stillness and silence
on a regular basis
throughout what remains of life left for living.

May it be so!