BEATING THE POISONED DRUM

Any authentic contemplative tradition will feel totally new and different every few years to the same practitioner.

If you don’t want to die, stop being alive!

Ethical choices should be made under the assumption that one will never be allowed to defend oneself.

Mercilessly equanimous, even as the heart shrieks and burns.

Refuse to be defined by the misery of others.

The mirror becomes a crown!

If you must choose, then sin by day and pray by night, not the reverse.

You must hear “Hello!” in every sound.

You must be like an idiot dancing on the edge of what others call a cliff.

Time and space tug at each other. If you can see this, you are free.