The world is on fire!And are you laughing?You are deep in the dark.Will you not ask for light?For behold your body—A painted puppet, a toy,Jointed and sick and full of falseimaginings, A shadow that shifts and fades.How frail it is!Frail and pestilent,It sickens, festers and dies.Like every living thingIn the end it sickens and dies.Behold these whitened bones, The hollow shells and husks of a dyingsummer.And are you laughing?
-Siddhārtha Gautama
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