Happiness Meditation Poem: “An Undisturbed Mind”

Poem

Jun 252014

Sky Time for poetry! This is the second in my series of poems inspired by the Tao Te Ching. (The first one is here.)

Happiness Meditation Poem – An Undisturbed Mind

Evil cannot disturb me.
I can only disturb myself.

Rejection cannot disturb me.
Abandonment cannot.
Aloneness cannot.
I can only disturb myself.

Setbacks cannot disturb me.
Traffic jams cannot.
Hurdles cannot.
I can only disturb myself.

This the sage knows:
Happiness is a flower that blossoms naturally
    in the fertile soil
    of an undisturbed mind.

I have decided that

I shall not disturb myself
Ever again,

And, then, I shall watch what grows.