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| − | <poem>
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| − | [[Jara Sutta]]: On [[Decay]]
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| − | John D. Ireland
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| − | "Short indeed is this [[life]], this side of a hundred years one [[dies]]; whoever [[lives]] long even he dies from [[old age]]. People grieve for things they are attached to, yet there exist no permanent possessions but just a state of (constant) separation. Seeing this one should no longer [[live]] the household [[life]]. That which a man imagines to be his will disappear at [[death]]. Knowing this a wise man will have no [[attachment]] (to anything).
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| − | "As a man awakened from sleep no longer sees what happened in his dream, similarly one does not see a loved one who is [[dead]]. Those people who were seen and heard and called by their names as such and such, only their names remain when they have passed away. Those [[greedy]] for objects of [[attachment]] do not abandon [[sorrow]], [[grief]] and [[avarice]], but {{Wiki|sages}} having got rid of possessions, live perceiving security. For a [[bhikkhu]] with a detached [[mind]], living in a secluded dwelling, it is right, they say, that he no longer shows himself in the abodes (of existence).[1]
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| − | "A {{Wiki|sage}} who is completely independent does not make close friends or enemies. In him [[sorrow]] and [[selfishness]] do not stay, like water on a [[lotus]] leaf. As a [[lotus]] is not wetted by water, so a {{Wiki|sage}} is not affected by what is seen or heard, nor by what is perceived by the other [[senses]]. A wise man is not deluded by what is perceived by the [[senses]]. He does not expect {{Wiki|purity}} by any other way.[2] He is neither pleased nor is he repelled (by the [[six sense]]-[[objects]])."
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| − | Notes
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| − | 1.
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| − | There is a play on words here: "[[bhavana]]," besides meaning "an abode of [[existence]]" also means "a house." So as well as saying, he is not reborn into any [[realm]] of [[existence]], the passage also indicates he lives secluded and does not associate with people in the village.
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| − | 2.
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| − | By any way other than the [[Noble Eightfold Path]] (Comy).
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| − | [[jara]]:
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| − | [[decay]]:
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| − | [[aging]];
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| − | [[old aging]];
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| − | </poem>
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| − | {{R}}
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| − | [http://myweb.ncku.edu.tw/~lsn46/AccessToInsight/html/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.4.06.irel.html myweb.ncku.edu.tw]
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| − | [[Category:Jara Sutta]]
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