AN INVITATION FOR THE PATRIARCH

Do not ask me
to recite the Dharma
When I am breathing
there is only breath in
and breath out.
Be like the poor man
lost and wandering
going nowhere, each
breath the only breath.
Having nothing, simply
being.

A reflection on case 3 of the Book of Equanimity Koans

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