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Bhāvanā ( Anupreksā) Sūtra
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6. The ascetics being noble in thought and spirit cut the tree of transmigration with the axe of meditation.
- Bhā. Pā. 122
7. All the thoughts expounded by the liberated ones are true.
A person, whose self is filled with noble thoughts, always speaks the truth and is friendly towards all creatures.
- Sū. Kr. Sū. 1.15.3
Twenty Six Reflections on Impermanence
1. Time is flecting and the nights are ticking by. The worldly
pleasures are transient. Just as the birds abandon the tree when it become barren, so also the worldly temptations desert a person who becomes incompetent.
- Utta. Sū. 13.31
2. Just as a hawk pounces upon the partridge and makes it
bereft of life, so also when the life-span of a person comes to an end, death snatches him from life. Young and old, even the child in the womb, are not spared by death.
---- Sū. Ks. Sū. 1.2.1.2
3. Even in the absence of involvement mere desire for sensual pleasures binds one to a lower existence.
— Utta. Sū. 9.53
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