Asking yourself, even the most mundane question, is like throwing the I Ching - Barry Denny

[Larry Robinson]

Asking yourself, even the most mundane question, is like throwing the I Ching
 
The retreat is noisy
 
I walk downhill
towards the labyrinth and beseech the path
                                                                     five times:
Tell me how an old man reaches
             his authentic self?
 
Silently the path replies:
 Your terrain is rocky.
                                    One plods and plods, 
                                    sleeps and then plods some more.
 
                                   Avoid fallen branches, but be sure
                                   to gaze skyward through the leafless trees
                                   way beyond the moon--
 
where trickster and saint
embrace in contentious paradox.

	- Barry Denny