Matsuo-basho

How it Started

For 52 weeks I did a long Zen Buddhist meditation, a weekly meditation, drawing and haiku to practice both quietness and haiku (and to offset all the work I’ve been doing in the technology-sphere).  

How to Begin

Here are links to the full set. You can join in anywhere along the list or you can start at the beginning at any time. Don’t worry about missing a week or two sequentially. Just keep going. You can also keep a journal of your own, with daily happenings, your drawings, haiku and responses to the meditations. 

The Prompts

Week One: Calmness

Week Two: Connect

Week Three: Fundamentals We Take For Granted

Week Four: It’s the Little Things

Week Five: Focus

Week Six: Now

Week Seven: Choice of Path

Week Eight: Space

Week Nine: Joy

Week Ten: Breathe

Week Eleven: One Spec of Dust

Week Twelve: Gates

Week Thirteen: Doing Nothing

Week Fourteen: Not Knowing

Week Fifteen: Going Deep and Light

Week Sixteen: Animal Nature

Week Seventeen: Open Field

Week Eighteen: Enlightened

Week Nineteen: Dealing with Loss

Week Twenty: Dealing with Loss, Part 2

Week Twenty-One: Dealing with Loss, Part 3

Week Twenty-Two: Our True Selves

Week Twenty-Three: Like Dirt

Week Twenty-Four: The Perseverance of Sunflowers

Week Twenty-Five: Space to Rest Before Challenge

Week Twenty-Six: Disconnection

Week Twenty-Seven: In the Moment

Week Twenty- Eight: Bubble in a Stream

Week Twenty-Nine: Letting Go

Week Thirty: Pot of Gold

Week Thirty-One: Being Judgey

Week Thirty-Two: Where You Are

Week Thirty-Three: Lessons

Week Thirty-Four: Erasure

Week Thirty-Five: What You Think You Know

Week Thirty-Six: What to Say

Week Thirty-Seven: Accomplishments

Week Thirty-Eight: The Moment or the Mind

Week Thirty-Nine: Emptiness

Week Forty: Happiness

Week Forty-One: New Start

Week Forty-Two: Washing Dishes

Week Forty-Three: What is Strength?

Week Forty-Four: Waiting

Week Forty-Five: Hunger

Week Forty-Six: Repairing

Week Forty-Seven: Competition

Week Forty-Eight: Some Day

Week Forty-Nine: Walking

Week Fifty: A Good Cry

Week Fifty-One: Challenges

Week Fifty-Two: Finishing