Jubilant Living

What are your essentials for fall?

Healing is messy, but is necessary.

"Happiness is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to bear it. Calamity is as heavy as the earth, but nobody knows how to avoid it."
- Lao Tzu

"Every suffering is a Buddha-seed, because suffering impels mortals to seek wisdom."
- Bodhidharma

"Silence is the greatest revelation."
- Lao Tzu

"Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life."
- Sen no Rikyu

"Kindness should become the natural way of life, not the exception."
- Buddha

"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

"We must find the middle way, without leaning on one side or the other, but embracing both."
- Taisen Deshimaru

"Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning."
- Sengcan

"All beings by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas."
- Hakuin Ekaku

"If we don't occupy ourself with everything, then a peaceful mind will have nowhere to abide."
- Shenhui