{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp4-6.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp4-6.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp4-6.htm","text":"How short this life!\nYou die this side of 100 years,\nbut even if you live past,\nyou die of old age.\nPeople grieve\nfor what they see as mine,\nfor \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nothing possessed is constant,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nothing is constantly possessed.\nSeeing this separation\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 simply as it is,\none should not live the household life.\nAt death a person abandons\nwhat he construes as mine.\nRealizing this, the wise\nshould not incline\nto be devoted to mine.\nJust as a man doesn't see,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 on awakening,\nwhat he met in a dream,\neven so he doesn't see,\nwhen they are dead\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 -- their time done -- \nthose he held dear.\nEven when they are seen & heard,\npeople are called by this or that name,\nbut only the name remains\nto be pointed to\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 when they are dead.\nGrief, lamentation, & avarice\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 are not let go\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 by those greedy for mine,\nso sages\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 letting go of possessions,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 seeing the Secure,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 go wandering forth.\nOf a monk, living \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 withdrawn,\nenjoying a dwelling \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 secluded:\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 they say it's congenial\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 that he not, in any realm,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 display self.\nEverywhere\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the sage\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 independent\nholds nothing dear or undear.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In him\nlamentation & selfishness,\nlike water on a white lotus,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 do not adhere.\nAs a water bead on a lotus leaf,\nas water on a red lily,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 does not adhere,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 so the sage\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 does not adhere\nto the seen, the heard, or the sensed;\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for, cleansed,\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 he does not construe\nby means of the seen, the heard, or the sensed.\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In no other way\ndoes he ask for purity,\nfor neither impassioned\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nor dispassioned\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is he.","title":"Sn IV.6: Jara Sutta","type":"page"}