No Mud No Lotus

“NO MUD, NO LOTUS. Both suffering and happiness are of an organic nature, which means they are both transitory; they are always changing. The flower, when it wilts, becomes the compost. The compost can help grow a flower again. Happiness is also organic and impermanent by nature. It can become suffering and suffering can become happiness again.

Everyone knows we need to have mud for lotuses to grow. The mud doesn’t smell so good, but the lotus flower smells very good. If you don’t have mud, the lotus won’t manifest. You can’t grow lotus flowers on marble. Without mud, there can be no lotus.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Sometimes you are “stuck in the mud” and sometimes you are the lotus flower blooming in the sunlight.

When you are in the mud know that there IS a light at the end of the tunnel. The mud, as Thích Nhất Hạnh said, is transitory. The mud is the difficult times in your life, the times that you later may dislike, regret, blame, rage against, or try to wish away.

The thing about those times, about the mud, is that those times often move you forward the fastest. The mud is there to nurture you, to teach you and to help you release who and what no longer serves you.

The mud helps you discover you strengths, your resiliency, your amazing capacities. The mud, once washed off, reveals the new, stronger you! It helps you discover that something better is waiting for you once you release what is holding you down in the mud!

As Bob Sima’s song, “NO MUD NO LOTUS” says “Tough breaks, heartaches, perfect mistakes created this version of you. Everything you go through grows you, exposes who you are.”

So embrace the gifts of the mud, then wash it off and soar into the light as the amazing lotus blossom that you are!

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