Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen on Mount Baldy 
Come to this with Van de Wetering's After Zen for insight. Roshi is now 104 so he is a respectable being. Cohen in this 45 minute film is in good condition also, but he doesn't know that the aluminum in Mr. Baldy groundwater is 61,000ppb  The greatest curse comes as a blessing because when it comes it is irresistible and deadly.  See "Going Home in Old Ideas

But he does say what I tell him
Even though it isn’t welcome
He just doesn’t have the freedom
To refuse [he can refuse, but who would who has sought it all of life, to be awakened in the night!]

He will speak these words of wisdom [oops, who says they're wise, but if they're what was given...?]
Like a sage, a man of vision
Though he knows he’s really nothing [he's not nothing though, but what he is, will he say that?]
But the brief elaboration of a tube

I want to make him certain
That he doesn’t have a burden
That he doesn’t need a vision
That he only has permission

To do my instant bidding
Which is to SAY what I have told him
To repeat