Guest guest Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 --- On Wed, 30/9/09, www ramanateaching org <sadasivananda wrote: "AGE"from The Dhammapada, Chapter 11www.ramanateaching.org Why is there laughter, why merriment, when this world is on fire?When you are living in darkness, why don't you look for light?This body is a painted image, subject to disease, decay and death,Held together by thoughts that come and go. What joy can there beFor those that see that their white bones will be cast awayLike gourds in the autumn?Around the bones is built a house, plastered with flesh and blood,In which dwells pride and pretence, old age and death.Even the chariot of a king loses its glitter in the course of time,So too the body loses its health and strength.But goodness does not grow old with the passage of time.A man who does not learn from life grows old like an ox:His body grows, but not his wisdom.I have gone through many rounds of birth and death,Looking in vain for the builder of this body.Heavy indeed is birth and death again and again!But now I have seen you, housebuilder;You shall not build this house again. Its beams are broken; Its dome is shattered: self-will is extinguished;Nirvana is attained.Those who have not practiced spiritual disciplines in their youthPine away like old cranes in a lake without fish.Like worn-out bows they lie in old age, sighing over the past. © 2009 www ramanateaching org This email was sent by www ramanateaching org, Arunachala, Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu 606603, using Express Email Marketing. You were added to this list as alanadamsjacobs on 7/3/2009. Express Email Marketing supports permission-based email marketing. You can change your preferences or from this mailing list at any time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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