Let the Tiger Be a Tiger

The tiger is not taught to strike.
The sheep is not told to yield.
Each becomes what it is
without effort,
without thought.

Water flows to the ocean.
A stone falls by gravity.
No force. No striving.
Only nature obeying itself.

But man interferes.
He disciplines the wild.
He corrects the innocent.
He calls it teaching.

He forgets:
the best of anything
is not built —
it is uncovered.

To force is to deform.
To allow is to reveal.

You are not here to become.
You are here to be.

Let the tiger be a tiger.
Let the sheep be a sheep.

Let yourself return
to what you are
before the world told you otherwise.

Nothing more is needed.
Nothing more is true.

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