塵ちりの世よ

expression, noun

this corrupt world; world of the living; fleeting life

A literary or Buddhist-influenced expression referring to the transient, impure world of human existence, often contrasted with a pure land or afterlife.

• 彼かれは塵ちりの世よを離はなれ、山やま奥おくで修しゅ行ぎょうを始はじめた。

  He left the corrupt world behind and began training deep in the mountains.

• この塵ちりの世よに生いきる限かぎり、苦くるしみは避さけられない。

  As long as we live in this world of the living, suffering is unavoidable.