How do we do that?

Photo: Sunrise, Piermont Pier, July 2023

How can the work in its present form adopt loving kindness as a core practice?

It can’t be installed from the top down by fiat, by the direction of “authorities.” Of course one can make announcements or pronouncements or whatnot; but what of that? Announcements and pronouncements are just words; they’re likely, by way of your average irony, to inspire the opposite of loving kindness in some people. The perverse nature of our Being will cause some to say, right away, “Fuck you. I don’t want to be loving or kind.”

Any maybe they don’t.

That of course raises the question of leadership. The work, as it exists today, has fragmented itself, at least institutionally.

The question, however, is in font of us: