AUTUMN CLOUDS

Villa des Amis/September 2013/LPC

    

AUTUMN CLOUDS

This existence of ours is as transient 

    as autumn clouds.

To watch the birth and death of beings 

    is like looking at the movements 

    of a dance. 

A lifetime is like a flash of lightning 

    in the sky.

Rushing by like a torrent 

    down a steep mountain.

                                           ---Buddha