In the bardo

If I am waiting for someone to say or do something so that I can be happy, then I inhabit a purgatorial state. Waiting is dying.

What he doesn’t do

The true man wants nothing, expects nothing, fears nothing. He holds no opinions. He neither opposes nor competes.

Sir Plus

Wanting something obscures the fact that I lack nothing.

What I think

If all I know is what I think, I don’t know very much.

Vampiric entities

We’ve weighed anchor on the inner journey when we start to shed our dependencies. Pinned as we are between fear and craving, there’s no shortage. The last of these vampiric entities to be pared away are the ones masquerading as virtues. Loyalty, for example.