Sublime

The light is good; the reading lamps, long-necked; All doors have keys. Your modern architect Is in collusion with psychanalysts: When planning parents’ bedrooms, he insists On lockless doors so that, when looking back, The future patient of the future quack May find, all set for him, the Primal Scene.

Sometime later in his career, after he has realized the teaching of this sutra, he tells his fellow disciple Shariputra, “Thus should bodhisattvas stand and walk: they should resolve that ‘as the Tathagata does not stand anywhere and does not not stand anywhere and does not stand apart and does not not stand apart, so will I stand. And as the Tatha

That his place was empty in the galleys; that do what he would, it was still awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled it; that this was inevitable and fatal;

As a church, we must learn to slow down and let emptiness remain unfilled. We must make time for grief.