Patience

from Robert Aitken's THE DRAGON THAT NEVER SLEEPS

When beset by personal problems
   I vow with all beings
to settle myself in zazen
and trust the path to come clear.

When beset by personal problems
  I vow with all beings
to return to my practice of patience --
'All things pass quickly away.'

Whbn beset by personal problems
  I vow with all beings
to recall the Perfection of Patience:
the ease of the stars and the moon.