la passion du non-savoir

It's about time.

It's a study, how mind and body map each other—their tensions. And there's a sense in which the energies they intersect and harbour have an existence—insistence—independent of either. We each give something—a singularity, a glow—expression, for a time—a moment. Beyond that, we're redundant—old news—and the world is better off without us.

Climate change, population explosion, mass extinction. Three nice, juicy problems for our children to contend with.

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

My wound existed before me.

The teacher’s there to tell you what to look out for, what's important and what isn't.

Ignore the self – thoughts and feelings – and listen to energy. This is the work.

Meditation. Imagine sitting under a hot shower. Water is crashing down onto your head and running over the body, image of gravity. At the same time steam is rising from your body, image of lightness, spirit. Find the mind that happily keeps these two in balance.

where the wing is fully alive 
but has no mind or body

I can only teach if you are prepared to meet me halfway.

A controlling mind compensates for a lazy body and a slack spirit.

The fundamental fact of modern life is repression. Repression of a past screaming to be looked at, and repression of a future begging to open up and be lived. And then what chance does the present have? It can only be a shadow, divorced from the flow of time.

The more grounded, centred and together the body, the more the mind can open and the spirit can fly.

The real future arrives when your past catches up with you. All else is preparation.

The teacher is simply someone who can help you change.

My daughter has (at last) discovered the joy of sums. My job now is to compile lists for her to do. Yesterday, hard at work, she called out: Dad, you must make them harder or I'll never get any better! And it made me realise that God loves us according to the difficulty of the problems he sets us, not the comfort and pleasure he bestows. The Chinese say the same: when the master is strict and critical it's because he cares, and when he praises and compliments then he's sick of the sight of you.