Just Sitting is related to the full moon, tides, and that idea that the earth is mostly water and so are we. So I thought it’s not hard to believe that the moon would impact our internal energies and water tides too—if we can tune into them. I call it “just sitting” as this is the direction in Zen: “just sit.” I think that stillness is when the waves are most obvious.
Just Sitting
Sister moon
full of milk
feeds the tides
in most dramatic form
within the kinning souls
on and of Mother Earth.
Giving those,
and these,
a cyclic glimpse
felt sense,
of the one common life
ever sought
but often unseen.
Tap on the shoulder
perhaps,
to remind and regain.
Just sitting.
—Keith Knapp