Nowhere in this world is a refuge.
Now if thoughts should arise in your mind that this country or that country is peaceful or fortunate or that money is easy to get there, discard them, my friend, and do not dwell on them whatsoever. For you know that the whole world everywhere is plagued by one problem or another….Whether by cold, heat, disease, or danger, people are always being oppressed; nowhere in this world is a refuge. There is no country where fear does not exist, where people are not in terror of old age, sickness, and death.
Source: Translated from The Saundarananda of Asvaghosa, ed. E.H. Johnston (reprint edition, Delhi: Montilal Banarsidass, 1975), pp.111.
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