但看繭作蛾但看茧作蛾
王梵志王梵志
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Translation
Just watch a cocoon turn into a moth, it never remembers the silkworm’s old bed of straw. As we watch ourselves sleep, we treat dreams as joy. But the moth never envies the silkworm, and dreams don’t hold true delight. Consider it this way: in death and life, there’s no good or bad.

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