Big sky mind<\/p>\n
My grandson says god isn\u2019t rea<\/em>l. Somehow this leads That,<\/em> I tell him, Big sky mind My grandson says god isn\u2019t real. I say we can\u2019t prove god is or isn\u2019t. Somehow this leads to meditation which is about Buddhism, GiGi. Not exactly, I respond. Anyone can meditate. You don\u2019t have to be Buddhist. He thinks. But I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4441,4442,1173],"class_list":["post-93788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-big-sky-mind","tag-f","tag-half-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94639,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93788\/revisions\/94639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI say we can\u2019t prove god is or isn\u2019t<\/em>.
\nSomehow this leads to meditation
\nwhich is about Buddhism, GiGi.<\/em>
\nNot exactly,<\/em> I respond.
\nAnyone can meditate.
\nYou don\u2019t have to be Buddhist.<\/em>
\nHe thinks. But I think Dad is.<\/em>
\nI nod my head. Your dad<\/em>
\nyour uncle & I are all kind of<\/em>
\nBuddhist,<\/em> I tell him.<\/p>\n
\nto Big Sky Mind.
\nSee the sky outside?<\/em>
\nHe nods.
\nSee the clouds?<\/em>
\nThin wisps of cirrhus
\nfeather the blue.
\nAre they always there?<\/em>
\nHe shakes his head.
\nNo,<\/em> I tell him: sometimes<\/em>
\nthe sun shines. Sometimes<\/em>
\nit rains.<\/em>
\nBut what about the sky?<\/em>
\nIs it always there?<\/em>
\nHe looks at me:
\nthis is a hard question.
\nAnd yes, we agree:
\nthe sky is always there.<\/p>\n
\nis Buddhism. Clouds<\/em>
\nare like thoughts \u2013<\/em>
\nthey come and go.<\/em>
\nBut the sky and the mind?<\/em>
\nThey\u2019re always there.<\/em>
\nEven if we don\u2019t know about god,
\nwe know about the sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"