Satori Blues: A Poem John Botten It suggests that patience and

It suggests that patience and confusion--rather than rigor and certainty--are the essential precursors of wisdom

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Satori Blues: A Poem John Botten It suggests that patience andSatori Blues is an extended, Zen inspired response to writings by teachers of Buddhism and post Buddhist philosophies. Composed as a stream of thoughtat times epigrammatic, philosophical, fragmented, even exclamatorythe poem becomes a concerted movement within a space of meditation, as well as a sustained, psychological record of a yearning towards spiritual truth and clarity.