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## Twelvefold Contemplation (Dvādaśānuprekṣā) Chapter 8:
**261**
This living being, undergoing birth and death, experiences thousands of kinds of suffering in the realms of aquatic, terrestrial, aerial, animal, hellish, human, and divine existences. || 707 ||
Some of the experiences that gods and humans undergo are indeed pleasant, but the suffering in hell and animal realms is endless. || 708 ||
In this world, one experiences the effects of association and separation, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, honor and dishonor. || 709 ||
Knowing this world to be full of various kinds of suffering and ultimately empty, one should contemplate it as such and consider it insignificant. || 710 ||