This world is subject to torment;
Afflicted by contact, it calls a disease "self":
For however it is conceived
It is ever otherwise than that.
Becoming something other,
The world is held by being,
Is afflicted by being yet delights in being.
But what it delights in brings fear,
And what it fears is suffering.
Now this holy life is lived
In order to abandon being.
Udana, Inspired Sayings of the Buddha
Taken from: Udana and the Itivutakka by John D. Ireland at Google Books
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