· “Your master was born when it was his time and he left obeying nature. If you are content with the time that has been given to you and obey nature, joy and sadness have no reason to be. Ancient people called death ‘dissolutions of the bonds on the part of the Supreme.’ The fuel burns down, but the fire passes on, we do not know its end.”
· “Therefore it is said that, for those who know heavenly joy, life is the movement of heaven, death is the transformation of things.”
· “Life is a loan, we borrow it when we are born. We are just dust—life and death are just like day and night. You and I have come here to observe mutation—mutation has now reached me. Why should I be horrified?”
· “‘If I asked the Governor of Destiny to give you back a body, to give you bones, flesh and skin and take you back to your parents, to your wife, to your children, to your village, to your acquaintances, would you want it?’ The skull put on an angry look, frowned and said: ‘How could I leave the happiness of a king on his throne facing the south to go back to the suffering of human beings?’”
· “Life transforms into death, death is the beginning of life. Who understands their order? Human life is just an aggregation of the vital breath—when the vital breath gathers there is life, when it disperses there is death. Life and death transform one into the other—why then should we be upset? The one thousand beings are just one thing.”
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