More on the Tail

Here’s an excerpt from the talk that James alludes too in his comment to my previous post.

Click here and you’ll get the whole beast – minus the tail, of course.

Looking into your own heart and mind, what is it that is holding you back? What keeps you from being open? You don’t have to dig very far to know. Something presents, then just look below that. It isn’t very meta; it isn’t very far away from what you do over and over and over again.

Now take that, that tail of the cow, and make that your koan.

What is this? Is this the tail?

Why am I this? Why is this the tail?

Is this really me? Am I the tail?

Push, push, push. Keep looking. Keep asking is it this? Is it this? Here’s the water. Tell me, is it cool or warm? Here’s the tail. Can you wiggle it?

And let me tell you, own this fully, and the tail will wag the cow. You will jump through as easily as the cow’s ancestor jumped the moon.