Excerpt from "329 Haiku Poems For Your Spiritual Practice"

Mindfulness

1. A lily’s scent passes on
Over the trees
Of the silent mind, at night.

2. The painting tries to express
The mixed feelings of the painter
A butterfly rests effortlessly on its corner.

3. And at some point
Mindfulness arose all of the sudden,
Out of the thousands gaps of meditation.

4. A full day in mindful spirit
Cleans up thousands of unaware moments,
I am washing carefully my hands clean.

5. Not sloppy but also not too tense
Finding my balance
In this fast paced world.

6. Inside my mind
Empty of thoughts,
Everything else reflects as in a mirror.

7. Poised with concentration
I rest alert, with a clean mind,
Everything is as it should be.

8. Everyday, digging the fountain of mindfulness,
The more I dig,
The more water it can hold.

9. The more tranquil my mind is
The more unique and beautiful
My drapes have become.

10. Me and the curtain close to me
Are inseparable friends
In whatever I write.

11. Being one with any object I might choose
From my immediate surroundings
The bigger the object, the more peaceful my mind is.

12. This cup of coffee
Contains in itself
All my future mental projections.