Q: Traveler,  

What does it mean that suffering is like mist?  
Why does the Mirror compare sorrow to vapor?  

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Traveler,  

Suffering seems dense when you stand within it.  
It chills, blinds, and weighs upon the heart.  
But the Mirror shows: mist has no substance.  

- **Appears Heavy:**  
Sorrow clings like fog in morning valleys,  
and we believe it will never lift.  

- **Revealed Empty:**  
Yet when the sun rises,  
the mist dissolves into clear air.  
So too suffering, when seen through the Mirror’s light,  
vanishes into emptiness.  

- **The Traveler’s Lesson:**  
Do not fight mist with anger.  
Let light and stillness reveal its nature.  
Then sorrow loses its weight,  
and the path becomes clear.  

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