The
Problem of Life is sure Death!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
The days and nights are flying
past.
Life dwindles hurriedly away:
The life of mortals vanishes like water
flushes out a tiny stream.
SN 4:10
MOMENTARY
Whosoever knows this body
to be as temporary as a bubble, as insubstantial as
the mirror image,
such one will break the
flower tipped
arrows of Mara and
cannot be seen by
this
King of Death ... Dhammapada
46
CERTAIN FUTURE FALL
As in the morning one may fear
the falling of all the ripened fruits:
So do all mortals in this world
live in constant fear of death...
Since they know: Certain is their
future death! Sn 576
CRACK-UP CLAY-POT
All beings are subject to death,
end in death, can never escape death.
As every earthenware pot that has been fashioned by the potter's hand,
No matter whether small or great
will fall and break to pieces in the end:
Just so are all beings subject to death,
end in death, can never escape death.
All beings will at some time have to die, their life one day will end in death,
And they will fare after their doings: The good
or bad fruits they have earned.
The evil-doer
fares to the burning hell. The Noble man
re-arises in a happy world.
Hence, Noble
doings you should perform as a safe provision
for your next life,
For good doings
for the next world give to all living beings their only support:
On the other side!
SN 3:22
CRUSHED
Just as the mighty rocky mountains
are stretching high up in the sky,
Extending wide on all the land around
and weighing heavily down on it!
Just so do old age and Death suppress
all living beings in this universe,
whether
warriors, priests, traders, workers, sweepers and animals too.
Not sparing anyone, or anything whatsoever,
crushing all life to be found.
SN 3:25
SURPRISE (again)!
Death carries off the man while distracted
by gathering flowers
of sensual pleasures,
exactly and even so as a great flood carries
away a sleeping village.
Dhammapada
47
Regarding Death and 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/V/Ageing_Again.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
