Transcription: Stone from inside. Buddhism is spiritual autoeroticism. Cardinal Ratzinger, the Vatican. We know the flowers story, brief and bright, how the roots run the show, sending auxins from the dark. We see the wind's hand stroking fields and hillsides. The brain is no flower and the spine no stalk. but they bloom. Wouldn't you call feeling and cognition a blossom? I do. When the lily dies, its juices drain back to the bulb. Is next year's blossom the same lily? We'd like to think so. The roots of superstition mean overstanding. I don't know why, perhaps in contrast to understanding. We take stances i ...