2020.04.19 Sunday

   “This world is a consuming fire. The people are sunk in ‘Contact,’ they proclaim disease as something good.
   What a man supposes will happen, the opposite to that happens.
   This people, who differentiate themselves, having attained to existence, sunk in existence, praise existence.
   When a man praises it, there is fear: where there is fear, there is sorrow.
    p. 45 The complete abandonment (of the love) of existence: that is called the holy life.
   All these Samanas and Brahmanas who say that by existence there is escape from existence, these, I declare, will not escape from existence.
   But all these Samanas and Brahmanas who say that by non-existence there is escape from existence, these, I declare, are independent of existence.
   Not from Upadhi, as a result, does sorrow arise: when all ‘attachment’ is destroyed, then is there no resurgence of sorrow.
   Behold this variegated world, sunk in ignorance, full of pleasure-loving beings, unemancipated!
   All existence, whatever or wherever, is impermanent, full of sorrow and subject to change.”
https://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/udn/udn3.htm

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