DhammapadaBuddhismAccepted ScripturePaliShareDhammapada 11F. Max Muller 1881 - EnglishMoreVersion - 1 availableF. Max Muller 1881LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Dhammapada 1Dhammapada 2Dhammapada 3Dhammapada 4Dhammapada 5Dhammapada 6Dhammapada 7Dhammapada 8Dhammapada 9Dhammapada 10Dhammapada 11Dhammapada 12Dhammapada 13Dhammapada 14Dhammapada 15Dhammapada 16Dhammapada 17Dhammapada 18Dhammapada 19Dhammapada 20Dhammapada 21Dhammapada 22Dhammapada 23Dhammapada 24Dhammapada 25Dhammapada 26›Dhammapada: Old AgeDhammapada 11ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter146How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? Why do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness? 147Look at this dressed-up lump, covered with wounds, joined together, sickly, full of many thoughts, which has no strength, no hold! 148This body is wasted, full of sickness, and frail; this heap of corruption breaks to pieces, life indeed ends in death. 149Those white bones, like gourds thrown away in the autumn, what pleasure is there in looking at them? 150After a stronghold has been made of the bones, it is covered with flesh and blood, and there dwell in it old age and death, pride and deceit. 151The brilliant chariots of kings are destroyed, the body also approaches destruction, but the virtue of good people never approaches destruction,--thus do the good say to the good. 152A man who has learnt little, grows old like an ox; his flesh grows, but his knowledge does not grow. 153Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him); and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up this tabernacle again. All thy rafters are broken, thy ridge-pole is sundered; the mind, approaching the Eternal (visankhara, nirvana), has attained to the extinction of all desires. 155Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish. 156Men who have not observed proper discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, lie, like broken bows, sighing after the past. ‹Previous chapterDhammapada 10Next chapterDhammapada 12›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain in the United States via Project Gutenberg