As one enters the Gangarama Temple, he is greeted by a huge mural on the temple wall depicting the attaloka dhamma - the eight vicissitudes of life: gain and loss, good repute and ill repute, praise and censure, pain and pleasure - to give the message that one should not be disturbed by any of them.

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