釋門歸敬儀 1.31

1.31

However, trapped in delusion for long kalpas, there were people who withdrew from their seats even in the Buddha's era; failing to know their own measure, the decadent times abound with scholars who treat life lightly. All these belong to the company of the unthinking. One should know that our body belongs to other conditions, darkly unaware of whence it came; our spirit belongs to delusion and karma, rushing along without divining what kind of mind it is. A sūtra says: "Life is like a lamp in the wind: / One knows not the moment it will be extinguished. / Today follows another today, / Without realizing the arrival of death. / Darkly following karmic conditions, / One knows not in what path one will be born." These are supreme words. Yet trivial affairs never disturb their concerns—alas, how sorrowful!