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?

And sometimes, wondrously, you might find that an old

Bodhidharma’s Vast Emptiness

This koan resists the totalitarian impulse in spiritual paths.

Koans required a humility that is really a kind of plainness in approaching life without drama and ulterior motives.

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