Tricycle Daily Dharma April 22, 2013

Gateway to Happiness We are constantly encouraged to reject what is unpleasant, disappointing or difficult. 'What's all this suffering? Let's be happy! Have fun!' But our suffering is not our enemy. It is only through a relationship with my pain, my sadness, that I can truly know and touch the opposite—my pleasure, my joy, and my happiness.   - Claude AnShin Thomas, “Conceptions of Happiness”