The Left Hand Path

“The bad news is you jumped out of

the airplane without a parachute.

The good news is, there’s no ground.”  CTR

Vamachara, the path less traveled, when all

else fails.

Not the path of lemmings, skipping along

merrily into the void with fixed beliefs…

individual discernment, inquisitive analysis.

I was working on a plumbing job in Boulder,

Colorado. I was chatting with the client, a lady.

She said she was a Christian.

I told her I was a Buddhist.

She said something that stuck with me:

“Why don’t you just believe? It’s so much easier.”

I had to agree, at least, superficially.

The left hand path never ends…certainly not in a

convenient dogma.

It’s also said, in the left hand path, that the path 

is the goal.

That means that the path itself evolves, is a path

of evolution.

Time is not a factor.

Lifetimes are only increments.

The mind doesn’t die.

“Be precise, see clearly, know what is.”

These instill confidence in uncertain times.

Whew! Enough pontificating, if that’s what it is.

La, la, la, I feel better than yesterday, though

nothing has changed.

This coffee is delicious before the end of the world.

“Do you have a moment?” I asked a stranger,

as if that was all the time we had.