The Blessed
Buddha once said:
Just as the mighty Himalayan mountains Are high,
all-expansive, and weighing heavily;
Just so do ageing and death suppress
and defeat all living beings in this fragile world,
whether divine, rich, warrior,
priest, trader, slave, or sweeper! Not sparing anyone
whosoever, crushing anybody that is found!
Source: SN 3:25
The Most Precious Altar of our Temple:
Soon this fragile body will fall to the ground,
lifeless, cast aside, unconscious,
stiff, cold,
and useless like a rotten log of wood ...
Dhammapada 41
Momentary
Whosoever knows this body
to be as temporary as a bubble,
as insubstantial as a mirror image,
may break
Mara's
honey tipped arrows
and can thus not be seen by
this evil King of Death ... Dhammapada 46
Big Surprise!
Death carries off the folly man while distracted by gathering various flowers
of sensual pleasure, even and exactly so as the huge
tsunami wave runs all over
and
carries
away the sleeping village. Dhammapada 47
In the ultimate sense, beings have only a very short
moment to live:
Only as long as one single moment of
consciousness lasts!
Just as the cart wheel, in rolling
forward as in standing still, in every moment
rests merely on
one point of its rim: just so does any life of any being
last only
as long as a single moment of consciousness lasts!
As soon as this moment is gone, that
momentary being is also all gone...
One is therefore reborn millions of times
in each second!
For as it was said by the ancient elders:
All life, and all existence here is blinking
and momentary,
All life's engaged involvement,
all its joys, dramas, and all its pains;
Depends all only on
one single, discrete, ever-passing state of mind!
And quickly that moment passes by,
for never ever to return again...
Source: The Path
of Purification
Visuddhimagga VIII,1
Nothing is
Worth Clinging to...
More on the inevitable fact of Death:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Death.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Game_Over.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/amata.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Death_Contemplation.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Desireless_is_Deathless.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Deathless_Dimension.htm
