The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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So here we are with our second, I don't know, is the word installment?

That sounds kind of funny to say this word installment.

The second day. I don't know, is the word installment? That sounds kind of funny to say this word installment.

The second day on this idea of poetry of practice.

I can't believe I've done this three other times,

but there's this way in which poetry touches us in a different way than just the more didactic teaching.

I like to do didactic teaching. I've done plenty of it. But I also like to just use language maybe in a different way. Because there's this way in which poems can be, you might even say, a doorway to this,

another world, we're using ordinary words, but their arrangement of them kind of like evokes

something a little bit different than explaining.

This poetry is this arrangement of words that maybe includes a rhythm.

Maybe it points to maybe a possibility or some wonder or some openness,

which so much is about practice.

It can be a tremendous support for our practice.

So with that is just a very short introduction.

I will lead us in a guided meditation.

And I'll drop in a poem.

It'll be the same poem as yesterday

because as some of you know, my little talking about the poem afterwards got all garbled due to the mistake I made with the technology.

So just an invitation that when I drop in the poem, you don't have to figure it out.

You don't have to understand it.

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