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Audrey Hepburn Jamison
Poems
May 2015
Happiness is Non-Doing
Happiness is found when you stop
Looking,
Our greatest happiness consists
In doing nothing whatever is calculated
to obtain happiness.
I cease striving for happiness
Right and wrong at once become apparent
All by themselves.
Practicing non-doing...you will have both happiness
And well-being.
Heaven does nothing...its non doing is its serenity.
Earth does nothing...its non doing is its rest
From this union of non-doings
All actions proceed,
All things are made.
How vast, how invisible
This coming-to-be!
All things come from nowhere
How vast, how invisible...
No way to explain it
All beings in their perfection
Are born of non-doing.
Hence it is said:
Heaven and earth do nothing
Yet there is nothing they do not do.
Where is the man and woman
Who can attain
To this non-doing?
Chuang Tzu
Written by
Audrey Hepburn Jamison
Vancouver
(Vancouver)
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