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1 PREFACE
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Preface
1.1 English Preface When a cart has a weakness somewhere, it is repaired and serves once more. When, though fixed, it remains weak, it is because one cannot counteract the decomposition of wood.
When a vessel has a weakness somewhere, it is repaired and serves once more. When, though fixed, it remains weak, it is because one cannot counteract the decomposition of wood.
Good health is not certain. Even if one is allright yet one may be unable to perform ones physical and mental activities. When one incurs this fault, one acts on purpose, but a trained monk should not do so.
Vyavahāra Bhāsya Pithikā (180-182), translated by Willem Bollée, Mumbai, 2006
