the ZEN of being
Epilogue-Foreword to this piece the ZEN of being Even with the zen-to-be, we exist in both a physical kinetic state and a psychological state of a de facto, palliative-hospice condition. In that we would be in a co-medicated dependency of sentimentality with each other that serves as a stop-gap analgesic drug for a consensually tolerated personal and social abuse. That emotional analgesic provides a cognitive coping mechanism. Without that coping mechanism provided by the distractive aesthetics derived from those analgesics of sentimentality, we'd have no substantive substitute of meaning. Those surrogates fill the void of our neutered self-empowerment. Without those surrogates, we would succumb to a morbidity of despairing to nihilistic fatalism, that is anecdotally recognizable in our present social environment The "zen of being" is our nickel-n-diming scavenging for those pieces of aesthetic vitality as 'sh
