To his good friends thus wide I'le ope my armes, / And like the kind life-rendring Pelican, / Repaſt them with my blood.

I therefore have a modest proposal aimed at rectifying this situation: let's declare war!

For everyone—everyone—who first takes it up, zazen is tedious and awful... Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brainwave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.

I felt there was a gramophonical quality to teaching. I had written about politics, and I had the idea that there was a need for a kind of political reporting, political analysis, that was different from the traditional type of magazines of opinion.