Escape from San Fran

That everything is impermanent
Is the way all things come into and go out of existence.
It is when these processes are over
That we see true happiness in nirvana.
- from The Nirvana Sutra

As flowers are brilliant but inevitably fall,
who could remain constant in our world?
Today let's transcend the high mountain of transience,
and there will be no more shallow dreaming, no more drunkenness.
- Kukai, The Iroha

And though it is like this, it is only that flowers, while loved, fall; and weeds, while hated, flourish.
- Dogen, from Genjo-Koan