Ageing
Reproduces the same Suffering ever Again!
Ageing is suffering:
And what is ageing? Whatever decay, decrepitude, broken teeth,
greying of hair, wrinkling of skin, decline of
strength,
weakening of the mental abilities,
feebleness, and senility of whatever
kind of being, that is called ageing.
Its function
is
to lead on to death!
It is manifested as the vanishing of youth. It is suffering because
of the
change into decay and the gradual, but steadily falling apart of the body.
The loss of memory, and intelligence in senile dementia is also distressing.
With leadenness
in every limb, with every ability declining,
With vanishing of youthfulness,
with memory all evaporated,
With intelligence eroded away,
with strength now drained,
With growing unattractiveness,
now looking and smelling bad,
To both wife, friends and family: This is the unavoidable misery
Any mortal must expect to find! Since ageing all of this will bring,
Ageing is well designated as suffering...
Visuddhimagga 502
Ageing and Death
Regarding Death & the Deathless State:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Death.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/The_Thorn.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Game_Over.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/End_Making.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Problem.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Bag_of_Bones.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Momentary_Life.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/V/Ageing_and_Death.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Death_Contemplation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/marana.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless_Dimension.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Inevitable_but_not_the_End.htm
