None of us have been here before.

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None of us have been here before.

Here's insight we can use. In this short meditation, Rusty Ring favourite Peter Mayer sums up the lesson we all should have learned long ago, but that many – perhaps the majority – of us are still sulking over. Candid elaboration on the Zen notion of dependent co-arising, as applied to the human condition (a subordinate form I prefer to call co-dependent arising), the whole track consists of little more than Peter's own voice and guitar, enhanced here and there with a ghostly violin at the edges. It all adds up to power that commands attention, and a sedate simplicity our sort esteem. Another cut from Peter's excellent album Heaven Below. I've got this on frequent rotation these days, as I absorb demands to take arms against successive waves of faceless, vaguely defined offenders. Give it a click; see if it doesn't help to keep you on-task as well. _NOBODY ASKS_ by Peter Mayer Nobody asks to be born They just show up one day at life’s door Saying here I am world I’m a boy, I’m a girl I'm rich, I am sick, I am poor Nobody asks to be born No one is given a say They’re just thrown straight into the fray The bell rings at ringside And someone yells fight Some just end up on the floor Nobody asks to be born And no one’s assured Of a grade on the curve Or a friend they can trust Or a house where they’re loved And no life includes A book of how-to Because nobody has lived it before So to all the living be kind Bless the saint and the sinner alike And when babies arrive With their unholy cries Don’t be surprised by their scorn Nobody asks to be born

Here's insight we can use. In this short meditation, Rusty Ring favourite Peter Mayer sums up the lesson we all should have learned long ago, but that many – perhaps the majority – of us are still sulking over. Candid elaboration on the Zen notion of dependent co-arising, as applied to the human condition (a subordinate form I prefer to call co-dependent arising), the whole track consists of little more than Peter's own voice and guitar, enhanced here and there with a ghostly violin at the edges. It all adds up to power that commands attention, and a sedate simplicity our sort esteem. Another cut from Peter's excellent album Heaven Below. I've got this on frequent rotation these days, as I absorb demands to take arms against successive waves of faceless, vaguely defined offenders. Give it a click; see if it doesn't help to keep you on-task as well. _NOBODY ASKS_ by Peter Mayer Nobody asks to be born They just show up one day at life’s door Saying here I am world I’m a boy, I’m a girl I'm rich, I am sick, I am poor Nobody asks to be born No one is given a say They’re just thrown straight into the fray The bell rings at ringside And someone yells fight Some just end up on the floor Nobody asks to be born And no one’s assured Of a grade on the curve Or a friend they can trust Or a house where they’re loved And no life includes A book of how-to Because nobody has lived it before So to all the living be kind Bless the saint and the sinner alike And when babies arrive With their unholy cries Don’t be surprised by their scorn Nobody asks to be born

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