Looking for the tabernacle [body] maker,
through the many cycles of birth.
And in not finding him,
painful are the cycles of birth.
No more, maker of tabernacles [embodiments],
for you [Mara] have been seen.
You shall make my tabernacle [body] no more.
The rafters [ribs] are broken
the ridge-pole [spine] is sundered
the mind [understanding] approaches the Eternal.
[For] I [now] understand peace is the extinction of desire.
— Dhammapada - verses 153 & 154
Debated Translations
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
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