<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;" class="">Five Precepts On Happiness </div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">1</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Though your friends and family</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">will likely try</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">to save you from it,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">yours is nobody else’s</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">business or responsibility.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">2</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">You cannot cause,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">manufacture or manipulate it.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">It comes, if at all,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">as gift to be received</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">with gratitude.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">3</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Hope to receive it</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">and prepare by giving away</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">what you least want to lose.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">On this point</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Jesus and Buddha dance.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">4</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Refuse to carry the burden</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">of maintaining it.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">That’s unnecessary baggage,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">will betroth you</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">to a boulder and a hill.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">5</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">If you receive some,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">scatter it like seed.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Sharing assures preservation.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">As with manna,</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">held tight, it rots.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- </i>Bonnie Thurston </div></body></html>