Dream of a gleaming mall. I head for that booth where our wrinkled couple, Crone and Sage, display their dry life-giving roots. Of them, said Yeats, "their eyes, their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay." Crone teases me. "Why bother with this mall? We raised you up to see heart-truth, not all this outward form, this silly buy and sell. You don't need things. And when you rarely do, You're practical. Why wrap us all in glitz?" I say "I dreamt a stage where you'd be drawn to play because I like YOU, not that abstract Truth you represent. And what makes you Greats Embody tangibly is need. One jinseng please. Mortal desire can be a tool." I too can tease.

NOTES IN THE MORNING

• Yeats quote: the end of Lapis Lazuli, 1938. "All things fall and are built again; and those that build them again are gay."
• "Desire can be a tool": I really do think Buddhism is wrong to condemn desire. Yeah, a hammer's no use in cooking, painting, brain surgery--but rooting out all desire is silly. Baaaad hammer! Eeeeevil screwdriver!
• Embody: I really do think we shape our perceptual world far more than we realize--in the day, I mean. That includes shaping how transcendental principles, Holy Spirits and other such abstract bugaboos manifest in our lives. We choose. Burning bushes bore me. I prefer friends. Teasing or not.

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