In The Diamond Sutra, an early Buddhist text also known as The Diamond that Cuts Through Illusion, the Buddha leads his interlocutor, the Elder Subhuti, through a series of questions and provocations. The Buddha then concludes the session by offering this teaching to those assembled: All composed things are like a dream, a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning. That is how to meditate on them; that is how to observe them. This duo piece is in four sections, corresponding roughly to these ...