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A Lesson from the Zen Masters

Jay Frankston


I have been breathing lately
and it’s as if I had never taken a breath before
I’ve been drinking in the air
and feeling the richness of it
and the thirst that it satisfies.
I’ve been breathing with the fullness of my being
and feeling strange connections.


Somewhere deep inside,
I think, I know,
I remember life came to me with my first breath,
a silver flute, silent and pure,
and I’ve been breathing ever since,
silently humming eternity’s hymn,
a continuous connection between me and the cosmos,
a spider’s thread to eternity.


And it feels good this breath awareness
I’ve borrowed from the Zen Masters.
It makes me feel I’ve grown wings
and soon I’ll know how to fly.

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