My old friend, Surajit Basak, says it is time to change the pattern that underlies and motivates our old addictive lives. And of course we wonder how to do this.

Well, it can’t be done; it can only be undone. So how can it be undone?

You can try firing the mind by telling it not to come into work today 😉

Or you can wrestle with each thought as it arises. A hopeless task.

Vernon Howard used to say that the New Nature rises when the old nature sinks, or words to that effect. You can’t have your mind and the new nature, too.

Zen koans point to the pointless.

Paradox has nothing to practice.

Jesus advises us not to put new wine in old skins.

Me, I just sit here typing into the void.

Vicki Woodyard