Just Sit – a Haiku poem
I wrote this Haiku poem after a session of Contemplative Prayer.
My unguarded thoughts
Can run a mile a minute
Soon as I “let go”
The Soto Zen phrase,
“Shikantaza” (Japanese)
Simply means “just sit”
Distractions come up
Like a movie in the mind
Don’t follow the plot
September 15, 1998
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