{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn4.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn4.9","id":"suttacentral_sn4.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.9/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 addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, the lifespan of humans is short. We are headed for lives to come. So 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 life of humans is long! A true person wouldn\u2019t scorn it. Live like a suckling babe, for Death has not come for you.\u201d \u201cThe life of humans is short, and a true person scorns it. They should live as though their head was on fire, for Death comes for everyone.\u201d Then M\u0101ra \u2026 vanished right there.","title":"Lifespan (1st)","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":150}