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Where have you come from 

and where will you go? 

Do you have sadness? 

Do you have kleshas? 

If so what?

 Are they kleshas of knowledge? 

Are they kleshas of meetings and farewells? 

Are they kleshas of death? 

Are they kleshas of birth, sickness, and old age? 

Whatever sadness or worries you may have

 they are all your meaningless delusions, 

which have been born of your impure discernment. 

Thus if you were to abandon all of your attachments 

you would be free from your sadness.

 In society today,

 a person’s worth is determined by

 his state of wealth and rank, 

and people believe that such things enrich their beings 

which are nothing more than empty shells. 

But man is an existence that departs 

as naked as the day he arrived. 

Do you not go alone just as you have come alone? 

Once you find yourself, 

you will come to know that 

you have come from nowhere and will go nowhere; 

once you truly realize that

 you are bound to your sadness, kleshas, and delusions 

and are thus not really alive, 

you will become Buddha.

 Kleshas, along with all the delusions you see, 

are meaningless. 

Once you become enlightened

 you will understand this logic.

From “Nature’s Flow”

Written by Teacher Woo Myung