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d="54b7">ZM: Do you want to tell it?</p><p id="5d27">ME: Yes. But you don’t want to hear it.</p><figure id="6952"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden</figcaption></figure><p id="2df5">ZM: It appears we are at an impasse.</p><figure id="fcb3"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden</figcaption></figure><p id="1279">ME: What do we do now? Keep walking?</p><figure id="ce31"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden</figcaption></figure><p id="0c5a">ZM: Keep walking. And nobody will explode.</p><figure id="be22"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*[email protected]"><figcaption>Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden</figcaption></figure><p id="4b0c">This is a series.</p><p id="91fe">Time travel — you choose, backwards, or forwards in time.</p><div id="eb19" class="link-block"> <a href="https://medium.com/muddyum/conversations-with-a-zen-master-6413507e2"> <div> <div> <h2>Conversations with a Zen Master</h2> <div><h3>Modern Day Koan Musings #2</h3></div> <div><p></p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.co

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Essay

Conversations with a Zen Master

Modern Day Koan Musings #3

Photo by Robin Benad on Unsplash

Conversation with ZM while walking around Innisfree Garden

Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden

ME: I wrote a haiku just now.

ZM: Did you?

ME: I did.

Some walking ensued.

Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden

ME: Do you want to hear it?

ZM: No.

ME: Is that a no?

ZM: No.

ME: You don’t want to hear it?

ZM: No.

Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden

ZM: Do you want to tell it?

ME: Yes. But you don’t want to hear it.

Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden

ZM: It appears we are at an impasse.

Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden

ME: What do we do now? Keep walking?

Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden

ZM: Keep walking. And nobody will explode.

Photo by ZM, Innisfree Garden

This is a series.

Time travel — you choose, backwards, or forwards in time.

© Susan Brearley, 2019 All Rights Reserved

Susan Brearley is a published book author, writer, editor, essayist, occasional comedy writer, and an accidental poet. She is currently working on her second book, a murder mystery about an OCD detective, who’s been called a “young version of Monk”. She’s a retired systems engineer and salesperson from IBM, a serial entrepreneur, and a survivor of a stage 4 inflammatory breast cancer since 1995. She’s also working on her US Coast Guard Captain’s license, has her US Sailing keelboat certification, and is the creator and elder teacher of a new program, “VisionQuest” that mentors and teaches adults of all ages how to create the life they were born to live. She is currently based in the mid-Hudson Valley, New York.

Zen
Humor
Satire
Spirituality
Short Story
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