Come, See

Small Black Stones

There are still these little stones. They need to be eaten. In order to swallow them, you need to soften them in your mouth and mind. These are your secret ill-wishes. They are harbingers of harm. They come before the harm arises as a warning to you to soften and eat them.

When others feel safe around you, you are eating these little ones. When others feel calm in your presence, these chips of hate, resentment, jealousy, anger, pride, shame, loss, covetousness are digesting into smaller and smaller bits. When no enmity trails after you or flares up in your presence, you convert the harm around you.

You must soften and eat them. There is no other way. Do not pretend to eat them. It is childish. Come, sit down and see for yourself the small black stones, begin to soften them and swallow them one tiny rock at a time.

Do not act pious or free or holy. Do not imitate another.