Aging : 147

Look at the beautified image,
a heap of festering wounds, shored up:
ill, but the object
of many resolves,
where there is nothing
lasting or sure.

Worn out is this body,
a nest of diseases, dissolving.
This putrid conglomeration
is bound to break up,
for life is hemmed in with death.

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Kamakura Buddha, Japan.

Aging : 149

On seeing these bones discarded
like gourds in the fall,
pigeon-gray:
what delight?

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Aging : 150

A city made of bones,
plastered over with flesh & blood,
whose hidden treasures are:
pride & contempt,
aging & death.

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Aging : 151

Even royal chariots
well-embellished
get run down,
and so does the body
succumb to old age.

But the Dhamma of the good
doesn’t succumb to old age:
the good let the civilized know.

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Aging : 152

This unlistening man
matures like an ox.
His muscles develop,
his discernment : not.


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Big Buddha Hong Kong, Lantau island.

Aging : 153 - 154

Through the round of many births I roamed
without reward,
without rest,
seeking the house-builder.

Painful is birth again & again.
House-builder, you’re seen!
You will not build a house again.

All your rafters broken,
the ridge pole dismantled,
immersed in dismantling, the mind
has attained to the end of craving.

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Aging : 155 - 156

Neither living the chaste life
nor gaining wealth in their youth,
they waste away like old herons
in a dried-up lake
depleted of fish.

Neither living the chaste life
nor gaining wealth in their youth,
they lie around,
misfired from the bow,
sighing over old times.

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Dhammapada XII : Self

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Self : 157*

If you hold yourself dear
then guard, guard yourself well.
The wise person would stay awake
nursing himself
in any of the three watches of the night,
the three stages of life.


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“There are four persons, ananda, worthy of a stupa. Who are the four? A Tathagata, a Fully Awakened Buddha; a Paccekabuddha; a disciple of the Tathagata who is an Arahant; and a universal monarch (Chakravartin).”

“And why, Ananda, is a stupa for the Tathagata worthy of a stupa? At the thought: ‘This is the stupa of the Tathagata, the Arahant, the Fully Awakened Buddha,’ the hearts of many people are inspired, and they gain in happiness and faith, leading to a good rebirth.”

“And likewise with regard to the other three: a Paccekabuddha, an Arahant disciple of the Tathagata, and a universal monarch. That is why, ananda, there are four persons worthy of a stupa.”

Digha Nikaya, Sutta 16 : Mahaparinibbana Sutta

Self : 158

First
he’d settle himself in what is correct,
only then teach others.
He wouldn’t stain his name : he is wise.


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Self : 159

If you’d mold yourself the way you teach others,
then, well-trained,
go ahead & tame–
for, as they say,
what’s hard to tame is you
yourself.

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Self : 160

Your own self is
your own mainstay,
for who else could your mainstay be?
With you yourself well-trained
you obtain the mainstay
hard to obtain.

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