苦は楽の種

くはらくのたね

one cannot have pleasure without pain, no pain, no gain

苦楽

くらく

pleasure and pain, joys and sorrows

抜苦与楽

ばっくよらく

a buddha or bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace

は種床

はしゅどこ

container for growing seedlings, seedbed, sowing bed

柿の種

かきのたね

kaki (Japanese persimmon) seed

この種

このしゅ このるい

this kind of

飯の種

めしのたね

livelihood, source of income

癪の種

しゃくのたね

irritant, cause of irritation, cause of annoyance

楽あれば苦あり

らくあればくあり

After pleasure comes pain, There is no pleasure without pain, There is no rose without a thorn, Take the good with the bad

苦あれば楽あり

くあればらくあり

no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown

苦楽を共にする

くらくをともにする

to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin

苦有れば楽有り

くあればらくあり

No cross, no crown

楽楽

らくらく

comfortably, easily

苦

く

duhkha (suffering)

大の苦手

だいのにがて

dread, horror, hatred

苦肉の策

くにくのさく

last resort, desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity

見るは法楽

みるはほうらく

seeing is enjoying

四苦八苦

しくはっく

the four and eight kinds of suffering

種種相

しゅじゅそう

various phases