Akira The Don

Body Soul Mind To the body belong sensations To the soul Appetites And to the mind?

If you do your work In a principled way With diligence Energy and patience Keep yourself free of

To the stand-bys Add this one: Always to define Whatever we perceive To trace its outline So that

Your ability To control your thoughts Treat it with respect It’s all that protects your mind From

How to act How to act How to act How to act How to act How to act How to act How to

Don't waste the rest of your time Worrying about other people Unless it affects the common good It will

Hippocrates cured many illnesses Then himself Fell sick And died The Chaldaei foretold The deaths

We should remember Even things that follow After things Which are produced According Unto nature

It’s not just that every day More and more Of our life is used up And less and less Of it is left

Stop drifting From the path You're never gonna Read them notebooks Or about all the acts Of

Never regard Something as doing you good If it makes you break you word Or lose your self respect That

If you discover in life Anything better than justice Self-control Truth & courage In this life

We have not even to risk the adventure alone For the heroes of all time have gone before us The labyrinth is

Down below there We have the shadow As Jung calls it It's like the blind spot for ego That about

I see mythology As serving four functions The first function is What I would call The, the mystical