UNFINISHED WORK

This work is call "First Arrow". It refers to the buddhist principle of mindfulness.
The Buddha once asked a student, "If a person is struck by an arrow is it painful?" The student replied, "It is." The Buddha then asked, "If the person is struck by a second arrow, is that even more painful?" The student replied again, "It is." The Buddha then explained, "In life, we cannot always control the first arrow. However, the second arrow is our reaction to the first. This second arrow is optional."
As long as we are alive we can expect painful experiences- the first arrow. To condemn, judge, ctiticize, hate, or deny that first arrow is like being struck by a second arrow. Many times the first arrow is out of our control but the arrow of reactivity is not. Often the significant suffering associated with an emotion is not the emotion itself, but the way we relate to it.

This work is called "Precipice". He will be balanced on a very tall cliff. There is really no way down for him or no way off the cliff. He's already finding that the cliff is not going to hold him, that it is about to crumble out from under him....
"Distraction"... Even in the best of times, we get distracted in life. Take this monk here... while in the pose of meditation, he stretches and looks around at the activity behind him.

"Shahrazad" was a storyteller. She charmed the sultan, keeping not only herself and her sister alive, but many other women as well. She was an expert in using her seductive talents of charm and conversation. Slow, meticulous, thoughtfully crafted movements of poetry and seduction proved superior in conquering anger and fear.
This is little piece I call "Writhe". It's been a complex and eventful year.

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