Breath
Texas Vipassana, 2009

My only task is to observe my breath
Not to alter it
Not to deepen it
Simply to observe it

Yet after a few breaths,
I find my mind running away down various paths
Sometimes I only miss a few breaths and
return to my breath

At other times
I feel deep relief that
breathing is an automatic process
Because if I had to observe it
to make it happen
then I’d long be dead

Or else I’d be really great at observing my breath.

 

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