The Wheel

The body is shed as the leaves of the tree fall to the ground,
And the self is reborn in the coming spring
Who is it that can instruct us in the art of dying?
Who is it that has been instructed and can lead us?
What man is it that can help us to understand death?
We will all become expert at dying once,
But none of us will be expert instructors ever
Self is eternal, therefore is not vested in this temporal body
If the self is limitless in its scope,
Then why won’t the self set about to cease the destruction wrought against it’s vessel?
Could it be said then that the self has no genuine interest in the temporal since it had already attained the eternal?
One man’s ending is another man’s beginning
Karma will be back again someday

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