God reaches out. God is not bi- or multi- lingual, but omniscient, all-language-speaking, the OG chameleon, a force that is undefinable – all that to say it’s not about which story is the true one, or truest of them all. The stories are love-letters…
“I am at war with my desire; I keep trying to be free of it … but I’m tortured instead,” I said to him, this man I regard so highly. He said, after an extremely Buddhist pause, “the teaching is not to be rid…
To be free of desire . . . this is my recurring theme, lately. As a yogi and mystic, I’ve obviously dabbled in this concept – more than dabbled, though, haven’t I? Years of celibacy, living alcohol-free, a life lived largely in voluntary solitude…