“I would fight to the death
before I’d do that!” He sighed.
His girlfriend responded,
“Are you sure you want
to think of such things?”
After an uncomfortable pause
I added:
“Mindfulness:
vulnerable and spontaneous,
could be a funny thing.
For we are not limited
to just two choices
of either suppressing
our darker thoughts
or giving voice to them.
Upon the Buddha’s path
when our mindfulness
like a small bird
alights gently
upon the thorn bush
of painful thought
we can harness its momentum
to drive the cogs and gears
of our compassion
and the wisdom of letting go.”
Imagine:
in days of yore
just as draft horses
were harnessed to farm equipment
that they might
plow the fields,
likewise we could harness
our anger, or fear
to drive the engines
of our love and letting-go.
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with a simple
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