"If A Simple Meditation Works, Trust It"

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"If A Simple Meditation Works, Trust It"by John Haag

"Somewhere a disaster, however small, is refusing to happen. An infant

falling from a 6th-story windowlights uninjured on an awning. This

time the mouseescaped the cat, the gnat evaded the nighthawk.Someone

said Yes when who’d have thought it. Hundreds of mineshafts didn’t

quite collapseand John Wayne missed on his first shot. WellI admit my

luck hasn’t been all bad. And sinceeach instant, once it arrives, will

be exactly like this instant, I have a lot to think about:a jackknife

at the bottom of a lake; an asteroidin someone else’s galaxy; your

warm night-smell—things too far or too near for ordinary

attention.Six weeks from now I’ll pack up and drive East,and I’ll

say, Here I am driving East, as I knew I would. And each mile will be

its particular mileand I’ll be there just as I am here, and just asI

will be the moment I know I’m dying, which will be the same instant

I’ve always lived, and it’s been,all the way, a fantastic instant,

and I’m convincedit’s worth more than ordinary attention."

 

 

from Stones Don’t Float by John Haag, Ohio State University Press, 1996.

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