Then the second step is bearing witness. And what we re saying is that the third step of healing oneself and others, which I would say is a metta or loving action step, will arise naturally out of that bearing witness. We re saying you ve got to do all three things. To the suffering. I would want to have people train as clowns, for example.
Abstract theatre is a world they probably have no idea about.
Think back to some of the things Trungpa Rinpoche did in terms of theatre work. I m very interested in the same stuff as ways of taking us out of our space of thinking we know what s going on. When I first started the street work, a friend of mine, Jim Morton, then dean of St. John the Divine who had done this kind of work back in Chicago in the sixties, told me the biggest teacher when I got out there was going to be the unknown. Whatever ideas people have of what s going to happen when they go out, they re wrong, and what they learn will be from the unknown. It s a way of approaching any situation.