Break the box.

Arousal

If connexion's the be all and end all then I need to be constantly aroused: ready to fuck. Or, to put it less crudely, so ready to give and receive that my arousal wills exchange.

Put your back into it.

If there are to be laws, we need ones that
Begin with the acceptance of poverty as a way of life.

John Cage

The desire for identity (all desire can be reduced to this) is the disconnecting – anti-natural – force in our lives.

Everything is a trap.

A useful sensitivity isn't so much feeling myself as the world bears in on me, but feeling the world as I bear into it. The former personifies the world – forces what I feel to my own image – I feel myself in everything. The latter and I join what's there on its own terms – I abandon falsehood in search of the truth.

in
cottonwood
bark's cleft

a lichen
buddha

John Martone

Photo: Chris Laver

The self-immolating buddhist peacefully returning to the elements because he is no longer bound to the false notion that he could possibly be more than the sum of his parts.

The ego's prime weapon is rejection.

The real world is the one of connexion – the one we enter into when our energy extends beyond our physical and mental boundaries and we begin to prowl. Connectedness is a natural state but one we inhibit and repress with our fear-based tensions and anxieties: our insistence that we are something special. This repression becomes depression and we have the malaise of the average person: ostensibly content, reasonably happy, but beneath the well-behaved veneer, seething with frustration. This is the frustration of denial: wanting – needing – connexion at every level, and not getting it.

The sun's in my heart
And I'm ready for love

Every action is the result of interaction : the spur of the moment is always connexion.