Happiness Does Not Depend on Weather

Happiness does not depend on weather,

Although it sometimes helps to see the sun.
Paradise remains well-tucked within,
Precisely where one’s labor is one’s joy.

Yearning finds its answer in compassion.

Given the uncertainties of weather,

Rain and night in league against the sun,

All must find their happiness within,

Depending on their love of life for joy,

United by the bonds of their compassion.

And all should value knowledge, regardless whether

Tentative or salient as the sun,

In which one sees the world without within,

Open window to the source of joy,
Nor more nor less than one’s sustained compassion.

Shena
XII science 1-19