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March 14, 2011

Bubble in a Stream

"Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream,
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."

-- from Diamond Sutra, ca. fourth century CE

Epigraph from Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian. Sutra translated by Kenneth Saunders in The Wisdom of Buddhism, ed. Christmas Humphries, p. 122.

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