Mindfulness

An important book for me in my university days, was by Alan Watts: ‘The Way of Zen’.
All my life I have been able to recite the poems quoted in this book about the Zen idea of mindfulness.

The centipede was happy quite
Until a toad in fun, said
Pray which leg goes after which
Which worked his mind to such a pitch
Considering how to run

Page 47 The Way of Zen

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