A New Beginning and Living with the Cobra

There's a beautiful score in the movie "The Last Samurai" which I came across during the Covid-19 lockdown period. I would listen to this score before my online classes at IUMW started. There are a few lessons from Mother Nature and her creations that are contained in the teachings of the Buddha and told through stories by Buddhist monks, one of whom is the late Ajahn Chah. He has a few chapters which are available HERE, including the Chapter on Living with the Cobra, a paragraph of which is extracted below for further contemplation:-

So we say that mental activity is like the deadly poisonous cobra. 

If we don't interfere with a cobra, it simply goes its own way. 

Even though it may be extremely poisonous, we are not affected by it; 

we don't go near it or take hold of it, and it doesn't bite us. 

The cobra does what is natural for a cobra to do. That's the way it is. 

If you are clever you'll leave it alone. And so you let be that which is good. 

You also let be that which is not good - let it be according to its own nature. 

Let be your liking and your disliking, the same way as you don't interfere with the cobra.

Watching Sunrise again in order to move on to the next chapters of my life.  This is what I need to do soon through traveling. I really do not wish to be stuck in a bad mood for 40 Years else I end up looking like this grumpy character from Steel Magnolias below:-