What is the fundamental root of happiness?
To be calm inside of self.
On what is that dependent?
Nothing.
How, then, does it arise?
Focus on breath. Keep it simple.
Notice and don’t believe the agitation.
It passes away.
Calm remains.
Calm requires no predecessor.
Agitation requires being stirred up.
Make less effort, then.
Simply focus on the calm breath.
That simple.
If you believe your mind, it races away with you.
Why would you do this?
Tension
builds up
around the places
we don’t trust.
Not each other-
fallible as we are.
Subject
to mistakes,
But the Universe, Itself.
Whether you are religious,
Spiritual,
or None of the above,
Can you trust?
In an order in which
you –
an atom in space and time –
are absolutely
in the spot
you are meant to be —
Not forever.
Just
This moment.
We want to have arrived.
We want to be free
of grief and fear,
No longer pummeled
by waves of anger.
Never realizing.
This is it.
This is the task at hand.
The ever present invitation
to remember
to turn our faces and open our hearts
to the Divine.
