Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.
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Dogen Zenji
from the book How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
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