Imagine a clear mountain stream. This is your innate joy, everflowing and pure.

Leaves fall upon its surface. These are your desires, obscuring the water beneath.

Remove a leaf, and you glimpse the shimmering stream. You rejoice, thinking you've discovered happiness, but you've only uncovered what was always there.

Soon, more leaves fall, concealing the water once more. Yet the water flows on, unchanged, beneath the surface.

Your happiness is this stream. Always constant, always present.

Happiness is not created when desires are fulfilled, it is simply revealed when desires no longer hide it.

Don't chase fleeting pleasures that come and go like fallen leaves.

Instead, gently clear your stream.

In moments of stillness, when desires fall away, you'll find the eternal joy that has always been yours.