Sublime

When I realized that I was seeing the world as it is, that led to the feeling of kinship. Whatever I paid attention to, that seemed to be me at that moment. I’d already been everything, done everything, owned everything. I’d already been this wall and this couch. All you have to do is be you and everything comes to you. It is not a question of owne

They enjoy life; they eat good food; they enjoy how they dress, how they walk, how they talk, how they live.

Down is out, out of your ever-loving mind and back to your careless senses. I remember muteness as a prolonged and giddy fast, where every moment is a feast of utterance received. Time and events are merely poured, unremarked, and ingested directly, like blood pulsed into my gut through a jugular vein. Could two live that way? Could two live under

Already we are the Buddha. There’s just no doubt about that. How could we be anything else? We’re all right here now. Where else could we be? But the point is to realize clearly what that means; this total oneness; this harmony; and to be able to express that in our lives. That’s what takes endless work and training. It takes guts. It’s not easy. I

Gary Snyder

it is safe to call man by his true names—trees, air, woman, fish, or man.

Alan Watts, Zen and the Beat Way. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle, 1997.

a peaceful, meaningful existence.