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This meditation includes the poem Victor, from the beautiful book, The First Free Women: Original Poems Inspired by the Early Buddhist Nuns, by Matty Weingast:
Victor:
When everyone else was meditating,
I’d be outside circling in the hall.
Finally I went to confess.
I’m hopeless, I said.
The elder nun smiled.
Just keep going, she said.
Nothing stays in orbit forever.
If this circling is all you have,
why not make this circling your home?
I did as she told me,
and went on circling in the hall.
If you find yourself partly in
and partly out –
if you find yourself drawn to this Path
and also drawing away –
I can assure you,
you’re in good company.
Just keep going.
Sometimes the most direct path isn’t a
straight line.