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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
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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