We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
- Lao Tzu

Shaman Psalm (excerpt)

(James Broughton)

Come forth unabashed

Come out unbuttoned

Bury belligerence

Resurrect frolic

Only through body can

you clasp the divine

Only through body can

you dance with the god

In every man's hand

the gift of compassion

In every man's hand

the beloved connection

Trust one another

or drown

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.
James Broughton

Everything that ever happened is still happening. Past, present, and future keep happening in the eternity which is Here and Now.
James Broughton

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton

Perhaps the ultimate avante-garde position: to reach the place where you no longer lean on any object, any reference. Or, as with Krishnamurti, "the stairway without any railing." Then you might reach the sphere of the innate light, the Mother Light, the light of which all other lights are the children. Can you go past your dreams to the pure light of dreaming?
James Broughton