When a Koan Meets an Old Joke

Mindfulness for cows & horses or life lessons in “equinimity”

Photo by Nikki Jeffrey on Unsplash

A horse gallops into a meditation centre, kicking up quite a stir, but most of the monks are pretty chill about it because they’re meditating and stuff. The thunder of the hooves on the new laminate floor echoes like a singing bowl, vibrating round, in, and through, without beginning or end. The orange pond of…