After No Comes Yes
Photo by Benjamin Patin
What is the thing that we can rely on? We turn to pleasure, to status, to power, to a relationship, to a job that will give us security, but this is like building a house on a single stilt set deep in a bog, or in quicksand. Yet there is something true and lasting. What is that thing?
Zuisei quotes Wallace Stevens’s “The Well Dressed Man with a Beard” to point to the place in which, after all the “No”s, a “Yes” can be found.
This talk was given by Zuisei Goddard.
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