Everybody Must Get Stoned The desire for pain or fear or love or
anger or betrayal or revenge or all. I
think of the Zen cliché, do not desire and
you will not be hurt. And its warmly
logical counterpart; desire and you will be
hurt. After I broke up with Aviva
I spent a year desiring not, hurting
not. Cold and alone. I encountered
Zen numerous times. I would rather hurt,
would rather feel. Ecstasy is the
warm counterpoint of Zen. Hurt and
learn, pain and knowledge. Facts for each
scar. Judge not, lest ye be judged.
I think everyone who judges aches
for firm god-given approval of their
own. Thus it would make sense that
only a godhead [godhood?] should make such a
double-edged promise. How many people
want a god who will not judge them?  ¶ 5:06 AM