From Shadows to Sunshine: The New Year’s Renewal

From Shadows to Sunshine: The New Year’s Renewal

  In many Eastern culture,  New Year Day is meant to look at life reflectively with an openness to renewal and purification with a sense of victory over evil and  atonement from vices and imbibe reverence for all sentient beings.

Eastern Insights on New Year Day: Couplets

New dawn breaks, a canvas bright,

Old shadows fade in gentle light.

A turning leaf, a promise made,

New tidings bloom, a sweet cascade.

Strive for new, a mind so clean,

Wash worries out, like morning sheen.

Purify mind, let kindness grow,

Mental evils, softly go.

Atonement sought, for errors past,

A future built, that's meant to last.

Reverence deep, for every soul,

Let love and peace, make us whole.