Sitting Meditation- Circling [7.10.24]

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.