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11 - Old Age - The Dhammapada · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Chapter eleven, Old Age, How is there laughter? How is
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  Speaker 1: their joy? As this world is always burning? Why do
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  Speaker 1: you not seek a light? Ye, who are surrounded by darkness?
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  Speaker 1: Look at this dressed up lump, covered with wounds, joined together, sickly,
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  Speaker 1: full of many thoughts, which has no strength, no hold.
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  Speaker 1: This body is wasted, full of sickness and frail. This
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  Speaker 1: heap of corruption breaks to pieces. Life indeed ends in death.
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  Speaker 1: Those white bones like gourds thrown away in the autumn,
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  Speaker 1: what pleasure is there in looking at them? After a
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  Speaker 1: stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered
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  Speaker 1: with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old
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  Speaker 1: age and death, pride and deceit. The brilliant chariots of
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  Speaker 1: kings are destroyed. The body also approaches destruction, But the
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  Speaker 1: virtue of good people never approaches destruction. Thus do the
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  Speaker 1: good say to the good? A man who has learnt
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  Speaker 1: little grows old like an ox. His flesh grows, but
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  Speaker 1: his knowledge does not grow. Looking for the maker of
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  Speaker 1: this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course
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  Speaker 1: of many births, so long as I do not find him.
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  Speaker 1: And painful is birth again and again. But now maker
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  Speaker 1: of the tabernacle. Thou hast been seen, Thou shalt not
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  Speaker 1: make up this tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken,
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  Speaker 1: Thy ridge pole is sundered. The mind approaching the eternal
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  Speaker 1: Vesankara Nirvana has attained to the extinction of all desires.
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  Speaker 1: Men who have not observed proper discipline and have not
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  Speaker 1: gained treasure in their youth perish like old herons in
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  Speaker 1: a lake without fish. Men who have not observed proper
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  Speaker 1: discipline and have not gained treasure in their youth lie
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  Speaker 1: like broken bows, sighing. After the past end of Chapter eleven,