In this brief span this body exists,
Clothing and food are of course indispensable;
But knowing them to be fruits of former lives,
I make no effort at all to obtain them.


"A Gist in Empty Words" (Chapter 2, p. 11). - No Abode: The Record of Ippen (1997)


In this brief span this body exists, Clothing and food are of course indispensable; But knowing them to be fruits of former lives, I make no effort...

In this brief span this body exists, Clothing and food are of course indispensable; But knowing them to be fruits of former lives, I make no effort...

In this brief span this body exists, Clothing and food are of course indispensable; But knowing them to be fruits of former lives, I make no effort...

In this brief span this body exists, Clothing and food are of course indispensable; But knowing them to be fruits of former lives, I make no effort...