I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.
Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.
In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.
I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.
Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.
My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.