Just a word
until it stands before me,
unannounced.

After all the watching,
the nodding, “Yes, I see”
it arrived,
and I laughed.

If the natural state of the mind is peace, then this worldly mind cannot be its original condition. Seen this way, the mind we live with daily is already a deviation—a mind that has forgotten its source. Because it is not living in its natural state, the mind is always in protest.