Alphabet Meditation Verses: E

Ego cares how things go.
Big mind just rides the flow.
Ambition wants to get things done,
then Stress and Violence join the fun,
and Ego tells a tale of woe
because it cares how things go.
Big mind feels, but makes no claim;
observes, but does not play, the game.

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I actually have two E poems, which work together. Sometimes I recite them both; but in a pinch I just use the original one, which is shorter and earthier but packs a more powerful equanimity-restoring punch for me:
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Ego mind cares very much.
Big mind don’t give a shit.
What will be will be, whatever I do
and however I feel about it.