Daily Words of the Buddha for August 23, 2017

Pāli Word a Day for August 23, 2017 — pamāda — carelessness, negligence, indolence, remissness

Appaṃ vata jīvitaṃ idaṃ!
Oraṃ vassasatāpi miyyati,
yo cepi aticca jīvati,
atha kho so jarasāpi miyyati.

How short this life!
You die this side of a century,
but even if you live past,
you die of old age.

Sutta Nipāta 4.810
Translated from Pāli by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

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