If -
If you can calm your mind at any moment
And enter meditative states at will,
If you can stop and think before you comment
At any time no matter how you feel;
If you can smile despite your raging hatred
When nasty threats are being thrown your way;
Or when your foes defile what is sacred
You simply nod and swiftly make them pay;
***
If you can feel and not make feelings order
The way you live your daily life at all,
If you can dream but always keep a border
That stops your dreams from clouding your soul;
If you can judge while having no emotions
And then be judged accepting all your flaws
You'll never let life's sweet and bitter potions
Enfeeble you and then betray your cause.
***
If you can show your staff a proper honour
And use it only when you need it most,
If you can make yourself its valued owner
And never want to brag about it or boast;
If you will learn to treasure every second
That you are given in a deadly fight,
Your foes will always show respect and reckon
Your skills a threat and then be taking flight.
***
If you can talk to others with composure
Or walk with poise in palaces and slums,
If you can learn to never fear exposure
To human crowds whenever that time comes;
If you can show your guile, your talents and your virtue,
And prove to all their biases are wrong
Yours is the world; I won't have much to teach you.
You'll be a Wuju master, dear Wukong.
