If I Could Ask Any Question

If I could ask any question, Where would I start? Would I ask about music? Would I ask about art?

Would I ask about conquest? And power and pain? Or ask about truth And justice or rain?

Would I ask about God? Or ask about men? Commandments or laws And what about Zen?

Would I ask what to value? Would I ask what to do? Why am I here? And what about you?

What thing, if you knew it, Would make your life better? Ask it and ask it, But don’t wait for a letter.

All human knowledge of What seems to be known Won’t help you right now So put down your phone.

Insights don’t come From scrolling at night. Just sit quietly, dear, And tap into what’s right.

From Zen and the Art of [nothing] by John Zdanowski & Jeff Abrams, Chapter 2.

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