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Epigraph

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Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep –

He hath awakened from the dream of life –

’Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep

With phantoms an unprofitable strife,

And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife

Invulnerable nothings. – We decay

Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief

Convulse us and consume us day by day,

And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

He hath outsoared the shadow of our night;

Envy and calumny and hate and pain,

And that unrest which men miscall delight,

Can touch him not and torture not again;

From the contagion of the world’s slow stain

He is secure …

He lives, he wakes – ’tis Death is dead, not he;

Mourn not for Adonais.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais

The Heart of Buddhism: A Simple Introduction to Buddhist Practice

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