To bite down on the very thing itself that gives shape to our sounds, voice to our breath? Holding the idiom close one would think what we’d say was so powerful, it required warding off in a deliberate act of self-harm—and yet the bite is most often accidental. O Friend, my wish: please let it shape every syllable, every blessing and chant you need to nourish yourself, and if you bite your tongue let it not be to hold back, let it be no accident, but rather a gift of Buddha-heart as it greets your Buddha-nature—“Che le sa, che le sa.”
