Yes, there is weakness. There is frailty.

Secrets can remind us of the countless human dramas, of frailty and heroism, playing out silently in the lives of people all around us even now.

i forgot to add a little human frailty. well, i asked for it. i'll put this back in the safe. i've got... gregory. would you like to know what i think of your childish nonsense, hmm?

But he says that he has yet to experience someone who became more aware of their body, in all its frailty and its grace, without, at the same time, becoming more compassionate towards all of life.

And this one's the biggest growth industry of all, and at least six out of 10 of the people in this room will die in this form, which is the dwindling of capacity with increasing frailty, and frailty's an inevitable part of aging, and increasing frailty is in fact the main thing that people die of now, and the last few years, or the last year of your life is spent with a great deal of disability, unfortunately.

But if you're a Zen Buddhist in the middle of September, you will be ordered out of your home, made to stand on a canonical platform and made to celebrate the festival of Tsukimi, where you will be given poems to read in honor of the Moon and the passage of time and the frailty of life that it should remind us of.