ow-ever strongly you may build a house, it willcrumble in time. So it is with our human bodies.Soul finds but temporal habitation in our flesh.It is like gathering growing reeds in the field andtying them at the top with a rope. When thespace inside is cleared, one could live in it and callit a… … THE CIIA-NO-VU (tea CEREMONY) ROOM IN THE JAPANESE GARDEN life, of the evanescence of life, that is borne inupon one when sitting in that cha-no-yu room,which, in a way, symbolises this philosophy of life,and one feels constrained to humble oneself beforethe greater power, and to be moved by the…
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