The poet has been experimenting with her zen poetry for a while, using words sparingly and punctuation to make spaces for contemplation in the word flow

…If Zen

Susan Ni Rahilly

If . . . . what . . .?

If essence of zen

Is breath

If SpIrIt of Zen

Is breath of Heaven

If silence

Is the way

we find the way

to be

with

our eternal being nature

If training

the body and mind

to sit still

Is the way we do this,

being grounded

here, now

If words

are

not the way

to sort out

our Internal wars

and

struggles.

.

Because

.

the universe

.

has

.

Its own language

.

.

.

If being still

In silence

at the centre

of existence,

breathing

In life patterns

Is the way

to

Inner freedom

If the way

we do this

Is with practice

If this

Is the “answer” . . .

.

.

.

What

was the question?

suZen

.   .   .   .   .   .   .


Thirty years in her own practice and teaching meditation now for more than 25 years, Ireland-based Susan Ni Rahilly’s Hatha Yoga teaching is inspired by Zen.

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