There is an Organization whose object is to eliminate entities from the World. Charging out of the Garden and denouncing naming, defining, counting, measuring, comparing, uniting, and dividing; the Organization deprives entities of sustenance. Where ever the Organization sets up shop; there persons, places, and things; entities, objects, and things; can not help but become light and sound, colors and hues, tones and timbres, textures and aromas.

 

There is an Organization that even while eliminating entities from the World has created entities of its own. The Organization has created its own entities, objects, and things; persons, places, and things. It has not been able to help itself. With these entities, objects, and things; with these persons, places, and things it has destroyed many Gardens.

 

The problem of authority has vexed this Organization just as it has vexed many others. Renouncing the worship of kings and scriptures, this Organization has come to worship teachers and their dispensations. This is heresy because there are no abiding entities such as teachers. Any human teacher may be full of virtue one day and full of something else the next. They have no permanent substratum. Authority is undermined.

 

Renouncing the worship of kings, and scriptures, this Organization must now renounce the worship of teachers. This Organization must learn to worship its practice. It must approach sitting and counting its breath precisely as others approach kings, scriptures, and teachers. It must ask its practice for council and advice. It must learn to set its problems before its practice with faith that in this way they will be resolved. What it learns it must learn from its practice.

 

Life is not a game. Life is not a school. Pedagogues must look elsewhere for employment. Here there is no teaching, no taught, and no teacher.

 

"Count Your Breath"