BUDDHIST WISDOM

[Pravin Kumar]

This body, bhikkhus, is perishable, consciousness is of a nature to dissolve, and all objects of clinging are impermanent, suffering and subject to change.

- Itivuttaka

As stars, a lamp, a fault of vision, As dewdrops or a bubble, A dream, a lightning flash, a cloud, So one should see conditioned things.

- Diamond Sutra

Now you have seen the true doctrine, your guileless heart loves to exercise its charity, for wealth and money are inconstant treasures, twere better quickly to bestow such things on others.

- Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King

So within this mountain-wall of old age, birth, disease, and death, there is no escape for the world. Only by considering and practicing the true law can we escape from this sorrow-piled mountain.

The king said: He who will not be reborn [one who is enlightened], Ngasena does he still feel any painful sensation? The Elder replied: Some he feels and some not. Which are they? He may feel bodily pain, O king; but mental pain he would not How would that be so? Because the causes, proximate or remote, of bodily pain still continue, he would be liable to it. But the causes, proximate or remote, of mental agony having ceased, he could not feel it. For it has been said by the Blessed One: One kind of pain he suffers, bodily pain: but not mental.

- Milindapanha



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