Just Seva

Just Seva

Day to day is just task to task, duty to duty

Nothing left to do but enjoy

Ah – the goals of aspirers and the wishes of desirers are mere distractions

I sleep I, wake, I do what needs to be done, I play if I can
Then I do the same again

Events appear, some I endear, some so so, some just blow

As I live till I die I vow and aspire to relax and do the duties needed
It is easy to feed the hungry, to offer a bit of comfort
It is easy to maintain the body and the home and the earth
This is true if one sees this as inevitably ordinary and not extraordinary

Sometimes the tasks are difficult

Sometimes the bodhi path is precarious and lonely
Yet with a bit of mind there is only the simple joy of simplicity

Desire rises and falls
Stupidity appears and disappears
Aversion comes and passes like a storm
If only we could see them as such we would not be carried away

Seva is simple happy action

To seek more is to seek that which is illusory
If one sees this as a temporary dance move, then fine
If one becomes a habitual seeker of the illusory, then duties go neglected
If mouths go hungry, then life falls away
What is the use of this?

My life is perfect yet I seek

I am a fool
Indeed I can only hope that I will not neglect my charges