Everything is natural, birth, death, gain and loss. What need have we to fear it?- what life has to offer us. Things come and go, not by our own choice, but by the nature of things. Both High and Low are even on the Way. Does clinging to these things bring us happiness? Do we gain any advantage by doing so? What advantage may we keep if we are but petals floating down a stream, subject at any time to the slightest force that will sink them?
If we can keep nothing, and gain nothing, why should we bother ourselves with bitter tears of sadness and the withering sickness of resentment? What attention should we give to anything but who we are and what we have in this moment?
Without worry, where do we find ourselves? Seeing that we are where we have always been we may find peace regardless of what circumstances we find ourselves in, for these are unimportant and in no way can disrupt our harmony.
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