Channie Greenberg
“Cool Copper Coin”
Response
Equanimity
By Urmilla Khanna
Inspiration piece
A cool copper coin in the palm of my hand
I toss it in the air. If it lands on heads
I smile.
It is going to be a good day, I say
If it rolls on edge, hesitates, then gently rests as tails,
I shudder to think of what lies ahead.
Divinity, however, is all the same.
Equanimity.
It is the cool copper coin in the palm of my hand
It knows no difference between the imprint on its head, nor that on its tail
It is the cool copper coin in the palm of my hand.
I traverse my circle of life,
pause when the coin rolls on its side
It is that pause where I experience my samskaras,
the deep impressions imprinted on my brain
the experiences of long, long ago
I perceive them as heads or I perceive them as tails
They are nothing but impartial imprints on my brain.
Some I see, others I merely feel
Like the warmth of the womb or the cool breeze that sweeps over the coals
of a cremation pyre
I live through them all just the same
Equanimity, you are the cool copper coin in the palm of my hand
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