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11 - Old Age - The Dhammapada · Sacred Texts Archive

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