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Rh while life really is to one who looks at it with clear eyes and a strong heart:

Death has no terror for Kwang-tze. Man comes and goes; the life of the spirit continues:

Long before the time of Calderón, life seemed to Kwang-tze a dream and nothing more: Those who dream of (the pleasures of) drinking may in the morning wail and weep; those who dream of wailing and weeping may in the morning be going out to hunt. When they were dreaming they did not know it was a dream; in their dream they may even have tried to interpret it; but when they awoke they knew that it was a dream. And there is the great awaking, after which we shall know that this life was a great dream. All the while, the stupid think they are awake, and with nice discrimination insist on their knowledge; now playing the part of rulers, and now of grooms. Bigoted was that Khiû! He and you are