Facets of life

As a water-vessel is
variously perceived by beings:

Nectar to celestials,
is for a man plain drinking-water,

While to the hungry ghost it seems
a putrid ooze of pus and blood,

Is for the water serpent-spirits
and the fish a place to live in,

While it is space to gods who dwell
in the sphere of infinite space.

So any object, live or dead,
within the person or without —

Differently is seen by beings
according to their fruits of kamma.

The Wheel of Birth and Death

Elements

Where do water, earth, fire,
& wind have no footing?
Where are long
& short, coarse &
fine, fair & foul,
name & form
brought to an end?

Kevatta (Kevaddha) Sutta

Heritage

When seized by death as you abandon the human state

what’s truly your own?

what do you take along when you go?

What follows behind you like a shadow that never leaves?

Piya Sutta, Samyutta

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