“The flow of the river is ceaseless and its water is never the same.  The bubbles that float in the pools, now vanishing, now forming, are not of long duration: so in the world are man and his dwellings … [People] die in the morning; they are born in the evening, like foam on the water.” Kamo no Chomei, from Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World (Stone Bridge Press, 1996) 

“The flow of the river is ceaseless and its water is never the same.  The bubbles that float in the pools, now vanishing, now forming, are not of long duration: so in the world are man and his dwellings … [People] die in the morning; they are born in the evening, like foam on the water.”

Kamo no Chomei, from Hojoki: Visions of a Torn World (Stone Bridge Press, 1996) 

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