This is a complementary poem that works with the previous “Ego (holding on).” This poem explores the freedom found in letting go of the stories we tell ourselves. In turn, we become the YES to it all.
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Ego (holding on)
New poem on how the constriction of the self is caused by our attachment to the stories we think define who we are.
“What we call ‘I’ is just a swinging door”
Shunryu Suzuki says, “The air comes in and goes out like someone passing through a swinging door. If you think, ‘I breathe,’ the ‘I’ is extra. There is no you to say ‘I.’ What we call ‘I’ is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all.” Breathing Breathing and meditation have become a key practice in my life since about a year ago. “Don’t we all breathe, how can breathing be a practice?” the critic asks. I say yes, we all breathe obviously, but when was the last time…
