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RENUNCIATION
a long time. The hillock is wearing away, particle by particle, and thus consuming up its existence.
Are we not all like that small hillock in the eternal stream of time ? Like the hillock we are all wearing away every second. Are we in any way safer and securer than the hillock ? I believe, we are not.
How Insignficant is Man !
Man builds palatial buildings and fixes up huge marbie slabs with detailed inscriptions in self-praise. He feels elated to see those stones and marbles and believes that they will make his memory immortal.
But what is the value of this vanity ? Man is no more than a particle of dust in a limitless universe, and his life is a small drop of water in the unbounded ocean of eternity. Is this brief and insignificant life something to feel proud of ?
The Saw of Life
Man breathes in and breathes out. This process has been going on regularly for many years. But man does not know what it really means. This is, in fact, the saw of time cutting the throat of life. It is cutting the life of man moment by moment. People believe that breathing is an indication of life but I say that it is an indication of approaching death.
Non-attachment
Don't be the honey-bee. Don't get stuck to the pleasures of life, like the honey-bee sticking to the flower, from
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