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If I place my hand in the fire do I complain that I have been burnt by the fire?
If I travel to a foreign land and I am not accepted, do I blame the residents?
For within my fear and loss lies the pain, not in fire, nor friend or foe.

The prospect of pleasure and gain in every way binds me to a life of consumption and death. As I expect death, should I not then be prepare to be consumed?

But I find I am unprepared for death as also for killing.
It is not the death that I shy from but the thoughts of what I have done
when in the last moments I will unable to distract myself
through wanton consumption