A Message for the Festive Season (2003)

May this festive season
Find you healthy
In body, mind, and spirit:
Vigorous like a horse,
Tranquil like water,
Spirited like a dragon.

Undergo a metamorphosis,
And be transformed into a new person.
Learn to appreciate the people around you,
Including those you love to hate.
Pause to absorb the beauty of your surroundings,

And find your perceptions keener than ever.
Let go and rid yourself of fixation,
And thus liberate yourself from yourself.
Forget yourself, be vacuous,
And act with total spontaneity.

Fear death no more,
And simply delight in living.
Feel at home in the world,
For you are no longer a stranger in it.