མ་རྟག་པ་ཉད་ཀྱ་མད 1

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Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas.¹⁸

Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was staying in Śrāvastī, in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍada’s Park, along with a great community of monks numbering 1,250.¹⁹

Then, the Blessed One addressed those monks: “Monks, all conditioned states are impermanent, uncertain, unreliable, subject to change. This being the case, monks, one should become disgusted with, indifferent to, not fixated upon,²⁰ and liberated from all conditioned states.²¹

“For all beings, all spirits, and all that draw breath, life indeed concludes with death, has its limit in death,