Birth was the death of him.      (Beckett)

Taiji mind: awake, attentive, alert. Neither desire nor need to know. Knowledge unnecessary clutter.

Keep the mind on the job. If I manage that, and keep repeating the exercise, I will be taken, via central equilibrium, into heightened awareness, into spirit. If my mind wanders at all, I won't. I will be simply wasting time.

As dantian contracts into the here & now – the local – the mind expands into the ever-increasing void. Condensation & evaporation.

RESPECT: the proverbial second glance

LISTENING: our first act of compassion