Zen And Healing

Buddha reminds us
that we will experience
sickness in this life
and that we will
die in this life,
so my thoughts
about Zen and healing
are that Zen won't heal
anything
and won't prevent us
from dying,
so since I have mental illness,
it won't be cured
by any amount of Zen,
what I will get
is the life
of a mentally ill Zen Buddhist,
but as I also know
or seem to know
is that Zen will help,

it just doesn't really save.