WHAT I LEARNED FROM THE SADDHU
There are some people not worth thinking about
As soon as I find myself thinking about SC or SP
I notice and label the thought ‘negative’
‘unproductive’
‘unlikely to bear fruit’
I examine how I feel:
terrible
twisted and strained
I don’t like it
this self-inflicted pain
bad thoughts
but now they aren’t there
(Something kinder has called them off)
There is better and worse
Christopher Twigg
Stone man at Llanbadarn Fawr (ninth-tenth century AD?) 28.7.12