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There are as many worlds as grains of sand on a beach,
big and small, round and square,
light and dark, age-old and transient;
some stand still, some go round;
some are alone, some in swarms;
and in every one of these big and small,
round and square, light and dark,
age-old and transient worlds there are seas and beaches,
and plenty of sand on these beaches;
and in each grain of sand there are as many worlds
as grains of sand on a beach, big and small,
round and square. In some of them,
Buddha is already born, in some of them,
he is not yet born, in some of them,
he is living and teaching just now;
in one of them I am sitting at my desk in the attic room,
and a wood warbler, Phylloscopus sibilatrix,
flies onto my window, so that I can see from close up
the yellow stripe above its dark eye,
and how it knocks with its beak
on the window-pane and then flies away.