“Nobody in the universe can tell me what right and wrong is except for me. And thats a lonely feeling. I kind of wish someone could tell me sometimes… But what’s funny is even I can’t tell myself what right and wrong is. It’s like listening for stillness. It’s something you can only know when the moment occurs.” - Dave Cuomo
Dave opens up his own inquiry into the precepts with a deep look at the sounds of silence that ultimately animate everything we do. Dragon's moan, persimmon's speak, and a snake loses its head in a free wheeling talk filled with poetry that reads like koans, koans that read like poetry, and to top it all off Dave throws in some personal stories of the times when doing it wrong had a peculiar way of turning out perfectly right. Does practicing stillness mean we have to be quiet? (Yeah, no...) Does a practice of not knowing mean we can't tell right from wrong? (No! But sort of kind of yes?) Is Zen actually amoral? (Ok, that one's an easy no.) Let's discuss!