Watch and learn

Walking too near the kerb is easily done, I should seek to avoid it if I were you. I do seek to avoid it myself, as I am me, and to be frank you could avoid it yourself without me being you. So don't do it, even though the fine example of a man that we are here to discuss was often to be found just millimetres from the kerb - on both the pavement and roadside, no less - wavering like a moth without due care and attention to the treacherous mobility scooters all around, likely to shunt him straight into the path of oncoming pensioners at any time in the villages and suburbs where he walked. It was a bad example he set in these instances, but they must be recorded for history's sake, for the sake of his story, in completeness and omitting nothing, despite what tears we might shed at the brutal truth of it, and what reams of foolscap we might use in explaining the disclaimer for the needs of today's insolent, litigious generation.

For the man whose life these writings celebrate was by no means afraid of danger as far as we are aware. In fact he spent a great amount of worry on the possibility of dangers he himself was not aware of, spending a small fortune at one time on insurance for "unknowable circumstances" that might befall him or his belongings. No claim was ever made on this policy, perhaps due to luck, perhaps because the circumstances, being unknowable, could never have been shown to arise, or perhaps, as I prefer, because of the very fearless attitude of the man. An attitude that made him oblivious to mortal danger and thus somehow immune from it.

So it is worth remembering, while we can learn from our subject, his attitudes, actions and writings, we should not take literally his example, for we are not guided by the same internal and mysterious wisdom. The wisdom, those internal forces, I mean, that made Kenneth Trax that most individual specimen of a man; the zenith of Kenneths.

Rite To Cure Disease, Chanted By Nuns [Part 2]
(from Tibetan Buddhist Rites From The Monasteries Of Bhutan: Remastered)