Life is the manifestation and intermingling of a supreme duality which over drapes all experience. There is the duality of body/mind, matter/energy, creation/destruction, sound/silence, sight/blindness, joy/sorrow, pleasure/pain, change/no change and so on. I spoke earlier about the contingent nature of…
There is in India a deity called Kirtimukha, the face of fame. He is the one forever and always devouring his own body, eyes bulging, teeth masticating. He is often found above doorways and entrances to temples and rightly so.…
Now we must embark on a journey. There is no other way but to walk out straight. You will walk straight out of prison. This is your knapsack. I have one too packed with things to eat. Let’s go… How…
“I’m glad to hear you smoke. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.” Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â –Â Oscar Wilde Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad was…
Smoking, to me, is a symbol. Once upon a time, tobacco was cultivated, dried, prepared and smoked, not as in the compulsive consumption that marks the modern — shall I say addict. Smoke was sacred to early man and it…