Season 7 · Episode 7

Sitting Meditation- Circling [7.10.24]

Charlotte Center For Mindfulness // Podcasts · ccmindful

July 23, 202420m 58s

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This meditation includes the poem Victor, from the beautiful book, The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, by Matty Weingast:

Victor:

When everyone else was meditating,

I’d be outside circling in the hall.

Finally I went to confess.

I’m hopeless, I said.

The elder nun smiled.

Just keep going, she said.

Nothing stays in orbit forever.

If this circling is all you have,

why not make this circling your home?

I did as she told me,

and went on circling in the hall.

If you find yourself partly in

and partly out –

if you find yourself drawn to this Path

and also drawing away –

I can assure you,

you’re in good company.

Just keep going.

Sometimes the most direct path isn’t a

straight line.

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