Going deeper then,
past the wall which has blocked
my understanding,
It has always been so,
even if I did not see it,
how the hard grasping
only causes heartache.
If I had only thought first . . .
always the grief for escaped greed.
But if I am not to be a battlefield,
in which more than me is the loser,
then I must learn.

And how am I to learn?
The ancients have studied this for centuries.