Bella Levenshteyn
MJ O’Hare shared the following with me
Somebody in her Memphis sangha shared it with her
When you were on your Yankev Glatshteyn binge
You were a model to me of concentration
May more of us realize the joy
Of being one-pointed!
Perry Schimmel
Multi-texting is for Mara
In Samsara
It’s not for a bodhisattva
In training
It’s not for a future Buddha
Whose abode is equanimity
Multi-texting, multi-tasking
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry
So much to do
So many chores, tasks, actions
You want to anxiety
To be pervasive?
You want to feel more insecure
Than you already do?
You want to feel like a tidal wave’s
Right around the corner?
Then do seven things at once
Go 60 in a 25 zone
Jam as much as humanly
Possible into a single hour
Pride yourself on exhilaration
(Which leads to exhaustion)
But the answer is simple
You know it and forget it
Do one thing
At a time
Do one thing
At a time
This practice is demanding
But you can do it
You can do it
You can do it
–from work-in-progress, Our Heroic and Ceaseless 24/7 Struggle against Tsuris
