Sublime

Koans will change your idea of who you are, and this will require courage.

Can you find where this moment comes from or where it goes home to?

if you approach small children without an agenda, if you can match the openness of their minds, you too are open.

And sometimes, wondrously, you might find that an old

Bodhidharma’s Vast Emptiness

This koan resists the totalitarian impulse in spiritual paths.

It’s not a discipline or a good thing

effort leads to effort, not to wholeness.

I have begun, when I am weary and can’t decide the answer to a bewildering question to ask my dead friends for their opinion and the answer is often immediate and clear.2 —MARIE HOWE