{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn4.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn4.10","id":"suttacentral_sn4.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. There the Buddha \u2026 said: \u201cMendicants, the lifespan of humans is short. We are headed for lives to come. We must do what is skillful, we must practice the spiritual life. No one born is immortal. A long life is a hundred years or a little more.\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse: \u201cThe days and nights don\u2019t rush by, and life isn\u2019t cut short. The life of mortals keeps rolling on, like a chariot\u2019s rim around the hub.\u201d \u201cThe days and nights rush by, and then life is cut short. The life of mortals wastes away, like the water in tiny streams.\u201d Then M\u0101ra the Wicked, thinking, \u201cThe Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!\u201d miserable and sad, vanished right there.","title":"Lifespan (2nd)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":152}