That there is nothing to hold to is a claim you’ve heard us make before. A Buddhist saying completes that claim with the sentiment, “Yes…but there is also no bottom.” We are in a free fall, embraced by mystery that will neither catch nor kill us. If we remain in pursuit of religion, it is important that we “get it right,” but by right, I mean accepting paradox. Accept the both/andness of life, the terrible/beautiful, the freedom/captivation, light/darkness of it all. LIFE is in this tension. Paradox may be the closest thing to Truth we have, and it is often intuited rather than known because again…we can’t hold on to it and there is no bottom.

From Biblical myth to poetry, we explore paradox in this podcast. What certainty are you willing to let go of so that you may have more freedom, more life? “Birth is the death of the life we have known; death, the birth of the life we have yet to live.” (Marion Woodman)