Being loving always helps

If you want to be happy,
being loving always helps.

If you can’t be loving,
then it helps to remember that
being loving always helps.

If you can’t remember that
being loving always helps
then it helps to have people
who can remind you.

From ‘Dharma means the truth about love’, an endless project to find the simplest, most useful ways to put dharma into words. The three parts of this poem are intended as reminders of ‘the three jewels’ — Buddha, Dharma and Sangha. You can read more here.

Or you can download a copy of my version of Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching (‘I thought I was on the way to work, but I was on the way home’) here.

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