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Is there a common good? Is there a wholeness to humanity worth struggling to support? Why should one person care about another? To what end does another serve you? Why bother with others? There are those who exhibit concern and compassion. They do exist in this ole world of ours. They answer such questions with their loving-kindness. Some are noted for their works. Many share loving-kindness mostly unnoticed. A few hide their good works. These folks can be looked upon as unworthy in their seeming innocence. If you think there is a common good, then so much the better. If you do not, does it matter? You will live alone in your selfishness. Time will take its toll. You will become hard and brittle. Then you will die. Who will care? No one knew you. You never let them in. Those who give and bend live long in community.

Joy is your true nature. Hold to joy always. Joy returns you to the eternal. All possibilities lie joy. From joy arises loving-kindness. If all lived in joy, there would not be kindness. If there were no separation, there would be no oneness. Once you sacrifice joy to happiness, then sorrow arises. If you abandon joy, then there is pain. With pain comes pleasure. To know other than joy is to invite suffering. To suffer is to walk the way of the world. From your suffering, return to joy.

Perception stole your joy. You lost sight of twia. You let appearance of separation turn joy into happiness and sorrow, pleasure and pain. Then you gained loving-kindness to ease the way. Your cleverness and greed turned you sour. You have been misled. Rituals and formalities hold little promise. Instead, hold to joy always. Remember twia. With eyes that see you will find your joy. It was never lost. It is the way.