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Yuin: The retreat from the world

  
To delight in the splendor of a dwelling or the taste of an sumptuous meal belongs to wordly life.

There is shelter enough, when the roof does not leak.....

Sen no Rikyû,  Nambôroku

The flowing current of the river doesn't end,
yet it is not the original source. 
The bubbles that swim on the shallow water disappear and appear anew, there is no evidence that they exist a long time.  >

 Sen Sôtans Yuin

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 In this world it is exactly the same with men and their dwellings.

And now it came to be that the dew of 60 years of living is about to fade, and again I built a hut, the last, it is the equivalent of my building accomodations for a wanderer for a night.....

Kamo no Chômei:
Records of the ten feet square of my hut