That Fleeting Feeling
Abandon evildoing;Practice virtue well;
Subdue your mind:
This is the Buddha's teaching.
Like a star, an optical illusion, or a flame,
A magical illusion, a dewdrop, or a bubble,
Like a dream, a flash of lightning, or a cloud--
So should one consider all compounded things.
While reciting [Shantideva's] words, we should reflect on impermanence and the lack of reality in phenomena. . .
--The Dalai Lama, in A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night
from Everyday Mind, edited by Jean Smith, a Tricycle book
