Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan

Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready prepared to part with everything, when God shall require it at your hand.

The face the index of a feeling mind.

Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame.