As sweet as razor blade honey - by Sasha Chapin

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A friend of mine recently asked me to write about honey on the razor’s edge. He was referring to a passage of text that’s so close to my heart it’s become part of my basic perspective. It’s from the book Roaring Silence by Ngakpa Chogyam and Khandro Dechen. I was introduced to it by Jake Orthwein, who is, among other things, legendary for being a one-man spiritual library. Now I will share it with you. Being in and of the world can be bewildering, but is there a way in which we can allow that to open out into a more spacious dimension in which bewilderment might become wonderment?…

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