Ha!

Boundless wind and moon -the eye within eyes,

Inexhaustible heaven and earth -the light beyond light,

The willow dark, the flower bright -ten thousand houses:

Knock at any door -there's one who will respond.

(THE BLUE CLIFF RECORD)

The Politics of Illusion

"The third wave of democratization and contemporary anxieties about the future of liberal democracy and how both the Left and Right entertain fantasies about the abolition of government. 

 How, as well, contemporary developing countries represent the fulfillment of these fantasies but how we take institutions for granted, which in fact have no idea where they come from!"

(THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER  by Francis Fukuyama, 2011)

Lila or god's play

"I am a hidden Treasure that I yearn to be known, so I create creatures to learn to know myself."

A Sufi parable