Real Joy and Reality

A young girl from the Spiti region of the Himalayas plays with bubbles for the first time.

“Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream;

Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,

Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.

So is all conditioned existence to be seen.”

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References ‘Diamond Sutra’, Chapter 32

Photograph by C. J. Schake – © Copyright 2010 – all rights reserved, quality prints available on request.