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All composite things
Are like a dream, a fantasy, a bubble and a shadow,
Are life a dew drop and a flash of lightning.
Thus are they to be regarded.
-and so you should
Think in this way of all this fleeting world:
As a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A dewdrop, a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

Excerpt | The Diamond Sutra
Translation | Eido Shimano Roshi