Paint: the human world — birth and labor, love and loss, a village beneath a wide bright sky; among the people the liberating Buddha walks with alms bowl and staff, showing the path. Here awakening is nearest.
Suffering · The Door
Birth, aging, sickness, death, and the ache of wanting — yet here the ache turns the mind toward the path.
The rarest, most precious birth: the realm where waking is nearest. Let the sorrow turn you.