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Zhuolan Senior High School · Slow Living · Breath of Fragrance

Date
6 Jan 2026
Location
National Zhuolan Senior High School, Miaoli
On a long table by the library window, bamboo sieves are spread with dried herbs and spices; outside are the streets of Zhuolan and distant mountains, with red poinsettias on the windowsill

Event Recap

Written by 吳順卿 (Volunteer with the society)

The cold weather could not dampen the society's compassionate commitment to spreading slow living and caring for life.

At eight in the morning, 鵬文 arrived at Zhuolan Senior High School with 陳媽 (volunteers 浩明 and 順卿 joined at half past nine) to begin three conversations about life with two classes of students and their teachers.

Through guided breathing awareness, making herbal bath sachets by hand, creating the shared painting "Little Flowers, Great Vessels", and blending and savouring their own incense powder, teachers and students practised finding calm, settled body and mind, and slowly returned to the present.

陳鵬文 sits at a long table demonstrating incense appreciation as teachers gather round, watching closely; the screen behind reads "Slow Living · Breath of Fragrance"
Between each breath in and out — meeting yourself, receiving nature's gentle, steady support, slowly breathing out the worries and anxieties of the past year, and setting down, one by one, the emotions the body no longer needs.
We wish them well: to take good care of their bodies, to build up their learning and work little by little, and to welcome a rich and peaceful 2026.
Eight "Little Flowers, Great Vessels" drawings in oil pastel on black card: vases of orange, yellow and white flowers, each signed by its artistTeachers sit at the table smiling and clapping, their own drawings in front of them

Creating "Little Flowers, Great Vessels" together

Taking part, I deeply felt the care and love the principal and the library director have for their teachers and students — from the careful arrangements for 鵬文's classes to preparing snacks and drinks from six in the morning. It was moving. I also saw for myself how fulfilled and relaxed the students and teachers were afterwards: a calm from the inside out, genuine and beautiful.

And I myself felt deeply, once again —

life is living, living is life, and life touching life is the most beautiful flow in the world.

Wonderful!

陳鵬文 with Zhuolan Senior High School staff and society volunteers holding a certificate of thanks, everyone smiling with thumbs up
陳鵬文 with Zhuolan Senior High School staff and society volunteers

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