{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/snp/snp5-16b.htm","path":"bud/snp/snp5-16b.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/snp/snp5-16b.htm","text":"From The Discourse Collection: Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata (WH 82), translated by John D. Ireland (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1983).\nThe Lord: \"Seeing heedless people afflicted and suffering through their bodies, Pingiya, you should be heedful and renounce body so as to not come again to birth.\"\nPingiya: \"In the ten directions -- the four quarters, four between, and those above and below -- there is nothing in the world not seen, heard, sensed or understood by you. Teach me the Dhamma by understanding which I may abandon birth and decay.\"\nThe Lord: \"Seeing men caught in craving, Pingiya, tormented and afflicted by old age, you should be heedful and renounce craving so as to not come again to birth.\"\n-- vv. 1120-1123\n1. Jara: decay, decrepitude, old age. [Go back]","title":"Sn V.16: Pingiya-manava-puccha","type":"page"}