The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
via: Vasco Brondi, Una cosa spirituale (Einaudi, 2025) — Ritualità
Info & reflection: free fall with no impact: terror and relief in the same image.
Attribution: in English the line is credited to Chögyam Trungpa, the Tibetan Buddhist teacher.
Related in anthology
- Una cosa spirituale. Non fare niente, altre forme d'arte — the fall with no floor, from the chapter Ritualità: letting go of the handholds, like the blind faith Brondi puts at the base of creative work
- This Is Why I Find Pema Chödrön So Essential — Pema Chödrön and Comfortable With Uncertainty: staying in uncertainty and discomfort with the body, without the stories we add to them