The bourgeoisie: big appetites, small minds.

(The Bourgeoisie is my lazy blanket term for the self writ large. Simplistically the Bourgeoisie are those who have enough but would like more. We all have it in us – the selfish impulse – but what I call Practice, or The Work, cuts through that, opens a wound, and bleeds, generously, selflessly. What irritates me about the Bourgeoisie is that despite their expensive and extensive educations they find it impossible to think or feel outside their box – they refuse to empathise. And if Taiji is about anything it's about empathy – being willing and able to put oneself in the Other's shoes and feel what they feel, from their point of view, otherwise how on earth can one yield?)