There's a point
beyond which
one doesn't care
to worry anymore-
it's not defeat
or despair
but the strength
and courage
to accept
and challenge -
what life
has strewn
on the way

this is the essence
of self-understanding
of stoicism
and of Taoism
in letting go
in not seeking
and non-striving
with the self
in conscious emptying

this then becomes
the self unbreakable :
life has been overcome
and the individual
enters into the realm
of complete bliss and freedom