Meditation With Feet

Father meditated with feet

in a pan of warm water

before sleep every evening

He never expected my mother

who brought him the water

to kneel.

Rather than wash in hurry

he wanted his feet left alone

let the dust particles loosen

as he quietly thanked

his feet and a supreme being

he vaguely believed in

Dislodging particles

spawned sensations

he could experience no other way

Not even from the touch

of Mother’s caring hands

Slowly his feet calmed

forgetting the bare-soled work

in the rugged fields

where I sometimes

joined him to help end the day

Meditation must start

in the head said Hegel

Head is where the mind is

and mind is where

impure spirit waits healing.

Father had never heard of Hegel

and his dialectics

striving toward spiritual perfection

Nor of guru Patanjali

who said

your body is your mind

stretched into bone and flesh.

It matters little

where you start the meditation

Father simply dipped his feet

in warm water

every evening.

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