Katherine Torbett LCSW
Clinical Social Work Practice Thanks for visiting my page. I am very pleased to say I will be celebrating my 3rt year at "Be Well On 39th". I like to hear that!
I have enjoyed the quiet, private and relaxed atmosphere at this location. It has been great developing relationships with the other practioners as well. We have been doing a little gardening out front (Dr. Melinda Dillion and I) so we can't wait to see the splashes of color from all the seeds we planted. Everyone also comments on how easy the office is to access from all part of the city. So, aga
09/26/2021
It’s been awhile! I’m still here and have stayed healthy. Hope the same for you!
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.
In each of our Plum Village practice centers around the world, we have a lotus pond. 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.
It is possible of course to get stuck in the “mud” of life. It’s easy enough to notice mud all over you at times. The hardest thing to practice is not allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by despair. When you’re overwhelmed by despair, all you can see is suffering everywhere you look. You feel as if the worst thing is happening to you. But we must remember that suffering is a kind of mud that we need in order to generate joy and happiness. Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.
If you know how to make good use of the mud, you can grow beautiful lotuses. If you know how to make good use of suffering, you can produce happiness. We do need some suffering to make happiness possible. And most of us have enough suffering inside and around us to be able to do that. We don’t have to create more."
From the book "No Mud, No Lotus" by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press 2015)
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