The Border Issue

...and so it went.  Agonizingly, painstakingly, Bastante Solipsis Marquez developed his strategy for taking over the world.

He would take over the world by mastering his body, and his mind.  Due to the fractal nature of the cosmos, as within so without and all, Bastante could harness the power of the Whole by harnessing the power of any part, and as he yoked his system together and his mind learned to absorb into its own nature, disregarding all sensory phenomena, he cultivated the capacity to observe, perceive, and optimize the hologram of reality simply by observing, perceiving, and optimizing his own inner system.

He could feel himself on the inside, and as he oriented around his own centerline, the universe did the same.  This was the great tantric alchemy of the ages, the awakening of the cosmic serpent, the global ascension via kundalini shakti, the blessing of the Holy Spirit.  He was Siva, the Lord of Yoga.

At least it felt that way sometimes.  Other times he felt like an immature and selfish moron.  He knew he wasn't much good, he knew he had no cause to be respected.  He was a sadhu, a hippie.   He contributed nothing to the world.  He simply wandered around in nature and soaked up sunlight.  And did lots of stretching, and breathing, and tuning in to the sound of his own breath, and the sensations of breathing around the nostrils and upper lip.  And felt guided to do so.

It didn't make sense to get all caught up in a career or even a family.  Better to stay caught up in the present moment.  It was the literal full-time job.

But this was the catch:
The mind cannot find peace.  Peace returns to letting go mind.
In letting go of all the mental chatter that comes with modern life, Bastante emptied his awareness out, and created a vast depth of space into which spirit could whisper and be heard.  Bastante, in his sadhana, had learned to tune in to the channel of the Divine.

...and the Divine told him everything he needed to know.  So much so that he got a bit of a reputation, and people kind of knew all about it, and came to him when they had serious shit they needed to discuss with the Divine.

And the Divine made so much sense, it was just kind of obvious.  The Divine would say things and everyone would go, "Duh."

Like the border issue.  Too easy.  Someone asked his opinion on the border issue, and after pausing to breathe and clear his mind, this is what the Divine told Bastante to say:

"Look, give a man a fish and feed him for a day, right?  Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime, right?  So everyone is gathering at the southern border because we are basically giving out fish, right?  I'm speaking metaphorically, of course - we're not literally giving out fish, we're literally feeding people, and sheltering them, and then maybe teaching them skills so that they can feed and shelter themselves.
 So we basically solve the border issue by teaching people to fish, right?  Again I'm speaking metaphorically - we need to teach people to sustainably feed and shelter themselves, right?  So basically, we need to export a new paradigm in which gardening is the centerpiece of public education, so that everywhere in the world creates maximum self-sufficiency in terms of sustainable food and shelter production, right?  Because a world of local and national ecological abundance is the key to mitigating immigration pressure."

People looked at him.  It was too obvious.  it couldn't possibly be that obvious, could it?  They kept looking at him.  What the fuck was he talking about?

 He wouldn't shut up.
"Look, there's no such thing as a free lunch, right?  But listen, if a whole country makes gardening the centerpiece of public education, then think about all of the orchards and food forests that are going to be around every school, and every church, and every library, and every town hall, and every old folks home, and every animal shelter and every homeless shelter, and of course its obvious that in a country like that Mother Earth herself would hand out free lunches every day to everybody in the whole country!  Right?  And kids would go to school in order to learn how to maintain and upgrade the ecology, and maximize its long term sustainable yield and resilience."

People just couldn't believe it.  what an asshole!  Was it really this obvious?  It was insane.

"The ecology of Mother Earth is the goose that keeps laying golden eggs, relatives,"  he said.  "As long as we nurture the goose, we receive an abundance of riches.  We all know not to kill the goose just to get the riches, but we need to learn not to kill the ecology just to get the riches."

And they were hooked.  He was right.  Immigration, health care, education, prison reform, environmental degradation, economic decline... there was no end to the issues that national gardening public education initiatives couldn't improve or possibly even resolve.  On the cheap, no less.

The more they thought about it, the more sense it made.  A healthy economy is created out of a healthy ecology.  Ecological rehabilitation reaps economic dividends.  This guy, Bastante, he said obvious things that made sense and people had no choice but to agree with him, and ally with him, and stand up for what he said.  The fact that he was a yoga weirdo didn't seem to bother anyone too much.  He had a lot of midwestern common sense, for a yoga weirdo.  That was his angle, actually.  He had too much midwestern common sense to come off as weird.  The Lord of Yoga was really just a common sense yoga guy.  It was absolutely hilarious, when you thought about it.

The psychology is a fractal of the ecology.  We heal the psychology as we would heal the ecology, by healing all of its separate parts and healing all of its parts as a whole, where no part is left out or isolated from the whole.  This is how we heal the psychology, by gazing into our own behavior with such clarity and compassion that everything hidden in darkness is seen by the light.  And this is how we heal the ecology, by healing all parts and weaving them into wholeness.  And Bastante had seen his various parts, and seen his wholeness, and now everything out there was unifying as his own conscious experience had already foreseen...