To cover all the earth with sheets of leatherWhere could such amounts of skin be found?But with the leather soles of just my shoesIt is as though I cover all the earth!And thus the outer course of thingsI myself cannot restrain.But let me just restrain my mind,And what is left to be restrained?
-Śāntideva
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