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Drink Without Hope

I had a drinking teacher once who instructed us, her students, to

“Drink without hope, drink without fear.”

At the time, I couldn’t understand what she meant. But today, remembering, I think she was trying to get us to embrace drinking as a practice.

In other words, she wanted us to see drinking as an enterprise that we engaged in without attachment—positive or negative—to an outcome.

Don’t drink because you’re hoping to achieve enlightenment.

Don’t drink because you’re trying to get past your personal pain or grief or remorse.

Don’t drink to heal your emotional wounds.

Don’t drink for peace or love or Cosmic Consciousness.

Just drink.

Likewise, don’t be afraid to go deep.

Don’t be afraid to let go.

Don’t be afraid that you’ll go too far or turn a corner into some weird space that you can’t get out of.

Just drink.

This is the goal of a practice in anything.

“Drink without hope, drink without fear.”