the outer sanctum
The naked lifelong student with the GRASSHOPPER mask feels affirmed. The story of the GRASSHOPPER and the ANTS was a true self reflection, a reflection of everything that had led up to this moment. And the moral was simple, to keep metaphorically singing. Always keep singing no matter the struggles, no matter the hardships to be endured.
The naked lifelong student with the GRASSHOPPER mask moves from the entrance to the outer sanctum.
The naked lifelong student with the GRASSHOPPER mask stands tall, examining the architecture of the outer sanctum, waiting for understanding and inspiration, breathing slowly, deeply, opening the body to experience the new. After the breathing comes the drills. The first is quiet, gentle and precise. The drills that follow become harder and faster, taps become slaps, slaps become punches. The meditation becomes a performance but once again no one arrives to appreciate the performance. And so the performance ends, body prone.
The naked lifelong student with the GRASSHOPPER mask is woken by the tannoy: HEAR YE, HEAR YE, BE UPSTANDING FOR THE ASS AND THE GRASSHOPPER IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.
GRASSHOPPER was singing, so beautiful and sweet.
ASS was enchanted, the singer did entreat
Pray tell me the secret of your singing so elite
Tis the dew, my lovely, dew’s all you should eat
So with only dew to drink, happiness was complete
And in a short time died of hunger, stupid ASS
grasshopper
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