Instructions for the Garden of Your Daily Living
Come to the garden alone,
While the dew is still on the roses.
Plant three rows of peas:
- Peas of mind
- Peas of heart
- Peas of soul
Plant four rows of squash:
- Squash gossip
- Squash indifference
- Squash grumbling
- Squash selfishness
Plant four rows of lettuce:
- Lettuce be faithful
- Lettuce be kind
- Lettuce be patient
- Lettuce really love one another
No garden is without turnips:
- Turnip for meetings
- Turnip for service
- Turnip to help one another
To conclude our garden, we must have thyme:
- Thyme for each other
- Thyme for family
- Thyme for friends
Water freely with patience and cultivate with love.
There is much fruit in your garden because you reap what you sow.
(from a pamphlet of the Tai Sophia Institute, the origin of the poem is unknown.)