The McCosker Loop Trail in western Contra Costa County, CA (Photo by Manuel Garcia Jr., April 20, 2018)
If your happiness depends on others,
you will never be happy.
If your liberation depends on others
banding together to secure salvation
for you and your people,
you will never be free.
If you are waiting for humanity to awaken
to enlightened solidarity,
you will have wasted precious living.
Your happiness, your liberation, your salvation
will not converge on you
from the external world,
they can only emerge from you
if you choose them to unfurl.
The living body is the focus
of the universe reemerging,
the unclouded mind is the viewing
of that endless panorama.
You are that.