A Flash Of Lightning In A Summer Cloud

Beatles: Within You Without You

Someone might fill
innumerable worlds
with the seven treasures
and give all away
in gifts of alms,
but if any good man
or any good woman
awakens the thought
of Enlightenment
and takes even
only four lines
from this Discourse,
reciting, using,
receiving, retaining
and spreading them abroad
and explaining them
for the benefit of others,
it will be
far more meritorious.
Now in what manner
may he explain them to others?
By detachment from appearances
--abiding in Real Truth.
So I tell you--
Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
When Buddha finished this Discourse the venerable Subhuti, together with the lay-brothers and sisters, and the whole realms of Gods, Men and Titans, were filled with joy by His teaching, and, taking it sincerely to heart they went their ways.
--Diamond Sutra