Walk with your mind married

to the bottoms of your feet

Feel the ground, the floor

feel its texture, temperature and slant

feel your feet straighten and bend,

come and go

Your feet carry the weight of

a great sanity:

you are an ordinary being

in an ordinary world among

infinite worlds and lives

Walking and wandering,

you will never arrive

until you understand

this

When you stray

into thoughts of accomplishment

or discontent

become aware

of the bottoms of your feet

and live there

as the world moves on

its roundabout course.

This way of walking is good medicine for the illness of bothering to be

anything but yourself.

Poem and practical advice for Titans by Shambhavi Sarasvati on the occasion of New Years 2016.