Shunryu Suzuki: Study Yourself

Shunryu Suzuki: Study Yourself
The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism. It is to study ourselves.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

What Would You Do?

Robin and Roger played me this great Bruce Cockburn song, Last Night of the World.  The refrain really gets me:
If this were the last night of the world
What would I do?
What would I do that was different
Unless it was champagne with you?


It makes me wonder, what would I do that was different?  Who would I spend the last night of the world with?  Would I choose everyone I love, or that one special someone?  To end existence in the hot passionate embrace of true raw love...that moment of melding together that extinguishes all separateness between two bodies, hearts and souls.

What would you do that was different?