The world is on fire! And are you laughing? You are deep in… - The Buddha

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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 false
imaginings,
A shadow that shifts and fades.

How frail it is!
Frail and pestilent,
It sickens, festers and dies.
Like every living thing
In the end it sickens and dies.

Behold these whitened bones,
The hollow shells and husks of a dying
summer.
And are you laughing?

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Siddhārtha Gautama (Sanskrit/Devanagari: सिद्धार्थ गौतम Siddhārtha Gautama, c. 563/624 – c. 483/544 BCE) or Siddhattha Gotama in Pali,; also called the Gautama Buddha, the Shakyamuni Buddha ("Buddha, Sage of the Shakyas") or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk (śramaṇa), mendicant, sage, philosopher, teacher and religious leader on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in the northeastern part of ancient India sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE.

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Alternative Names: Buddha • Bhagwan Buddha • Prabudha • Munish • Lord Buddha • Sakya-muni • Shakyasimha • Devarajalu • Buddhadeva • Sakyasinha • Tathagata Buddha • Trigyesh • Siddhartha Gautama • Shakyamuni • Sakyamuni • Sugata • Fo • Shakyamuni Buddha • Khajit • Trigya • Mahatma Buddha • Gotama Buddha • Padmayani • Lokapradīpa • Gautama Buddha • Gautam Buddha

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For behold your body — A painted puppet, a toy,
Jointed, sick and full of false
imaginings,
A shadow that shifts and fade.

Originators like The Buddha:

Swami Vivekananda Laozi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chinmayananda Saraswati Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Como la estrella fugaz, el espejismo, la llama,
la ilusión mágica, la gota de rocío,
la burbuja en el agua,
como el sueño, el relámpago o la nube:
considera así todas las cosas.

We will develop and cultivate the liberation of mind by lovingkindness, make it our vehicle, make it our basis, stabilize it, exercise ourselves in it, and fully perfect it.

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.

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, Jo… - The Buddha

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