Hard times with memory, plunges into unfamiliar worlds, experiences, people, finding life-changing guides
Putting aside a recent dip into life’s and the electronic world’s bumpy lessons (illusive wifi presence) that mauled a useful column into unintelligible mush, ventures into new territory are exciting, metamorphosing experiences. But such change demands both unwavering and lively attention. Thus the Zen Master Ikkyu’s brusk command when asked by a student for “a maxim of highest wisdom.” Ikkyu slashed his brush across his tablet: “Attention. attention, attention!”