Expect nothing
A tweet by a music industry journalist prompted by yesterday's post advises me to "get a life". The ubiquitous social media epithet of 'get a life' is the polar opposite of the Zen teaching of 'expect nothing'. In preparation for a journey to the Dalai Lama's Kalachakra empowerment in Ladakh, India I have been living with Eliane Radique 's Jetsun Mila , which is a homage to the Tibetan yogi, poet and saint Milarepa . My reference to Peter Matthiessen in yesterday's post was lost in obfuscation. So, to make amends, I offer another quote from The Snow Leopard . In it Peter Matthiessen is referring to the Tibetan Buddhist mantra Oṃ maṇi padme hūṃ . But it also applies to Eliane Radique's Jetsun Mila , which can be sampled here : The deep resonant Om is all sound and silence throughout time, the roar of eternity and also the great stillness of pure being; when intoned with the prescribed vibrations, it invokes the All that is otherwise in