A classical Chinese line for “Let go of the past”

Looking back at the bleak place I came through, I return: there is neither storm nor clear sky.

Plain meaningAfter weathering the storm, I no longer let hardship or ease define me.

Rather than moistening each other with foam, it is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes.

Plain meaningSometimes the kinder choice is to let each other go and live freely.

Return, return! The fields are going wild—why not go home?

Plain meaningLeave the life that drains you and return to what truly matters.

Do not rejoice because of external things, nor grieve because of personal loss.

Plain meaningKeep your balance through success and setback.

People have sorrow and joy, meeting and separation; the moon has brightness and shadow, fullness and loss. Such things have never been complete.

Plain meaningLife cannot remain perfect or whole all the time.

The cries of apes on both banks have not ceased, yet the light boat has already passed ten thousand mountains.

Plain meaningSometimes you realize only afterward how much hardship you have already crossed.