Lion's Roar

Meet the Blue Dragon

For twenty years I struggled fiercely—How many times have I gone down to the Blue Dragon’s cave for you?

—XUEDOU

IN FORTY YEARS will we be on a spaceship under Elon Musk’s conductor’s baton? What teachings and practices are suitable for those on a spaceship?

The notion of a ship as all metal and plastic is like our notion of practice as a protection against life. Instead, I would like our spaceship to be full of life, and itself a living being. I would like our meditation practice to be alive in such a way too.

For myself, I would like to take with

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