Tag: mindfulness

• The ritual

  Selfishness  

  Then—  

  Self-care  

  Self-compassion  

  Calming the swell  

  To silence the self  

  The ideal  

  Just a spinning wheel  

  Forgetting to forgo my ego  

  Stilling the water  

  The mirror returns—   

  Polished.

  May 13, 2025

  ego, meditation, micro poetry, mindfulness, mirror, poetry, zen

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• Urban Buddha

  A whirring fridge,

  Intermittent hissing 

  from an old boiler

  And the clacking staccato

  of a suitcase bouncing 

  along the pavement outside

  With me in the middle

  The conductor of this cacophony

  Struggling to harmonise 

  this discorded orchestra 

  As the magpie is tone deaf,

  And that leafblower 

  is messing up the crescendo…

  I think I’m meditating wrong

  Nov 7, 2024

  Buddha, city life, funny, meditation, Mental health, mindfulness, poetry

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• Tethered self

  Everyday, I close my eyes

  Exhaling slowly, I ascend to the heavens

  Revelling in the footnote like significance of I

  For a moment, I see the minutiae that is I

  A speck of self-aware dust,

  Lost in a blink yet suffering with meaning 

  Supposedly, I am one and none

  Naive conjecture or is it my blindness that is naive?

  Inhaling, I’m betrayed again by the I within

  That merely flirts with oneness but is tethered to this world

  Afflicted with desires, wants and dreams

  Wryly smiling at the irony of the want to be free

  Exhaling slowly, I pull against these chains once again

  Nov 1, 2024

  desire, ego, meditation, mindfulness, poetry, thoughts

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